Day out

Yesterday I was up bright and early as I was going on a very long-awaited day out. I went on a coach, kindly organised by Ruth, with lots of my quilting friends and naturally I took my camera with me to record the event. This is the only photo I took.

Any ideas where I went?

It was to the quilt exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum in London, where their excellent collection of antique quilts was displayed, for the first time ever. The exhibition was excellent, but of course, no photography was allowed. So this photo is when Pauline and I sat in the V&A courtyard cafe, having a cup of tea, and watching the children cooling down in the water. If you want to see some images of the quilts, you'll have to look on the V&A site where the photos will in any case be better than mine!

I did manage to buy a little fabric, as the V&A have commissioned some reproduction fabrics from Liberty and they were hard to resist.

These two were from a British coverlet dated 1797,

and these from the 1820s. (The blue one is a typical seaweed design of the period.) Now, what to make?