A Quilting Weekend at The Sunday House

What a thoroughly inspirational, and waist-expanding weekend I've had! We spent the weekend away on a quilting workshop run by Anne Baxter and Corinna Knowles. Anne runs the quilting workshops and Corinna cooks the most amazing meals. It was a treat from start to finish. Rather than chattering on about it, I'm going to let the photos tell the story...

We started with 9-patches - Marian's used Fair Trade fabrics bought in a charm pack at Ally Pally.

We learnt lots of clever tricks for speedy pieceing.

Julie pondered what to use for the borders of her quilt (and we told her there wasn't too much green).

We were shown a plethora of gorgeous quilts - I need to learn how to make the beautiful blue and white one on the left...

Pat turned a batik Jelly Roll into a beautiful blocks.

We ate delicious tomato and bacon soup...

...And beautifully presented cheeses and breads (did I mention that the food was fabulous?).

All the textures of Cornwall, particularly these herringbone stones, stuck in our minds.

The sea was out...

We added borders to the quilts - Anne had the perfect advice for everyone. Each quilt had a slightly different treatment.

See? Julie's quilt didn't have too much green, did it?

I want to do a pieced back in the future - this one is fabulous.

Marian got all layered up, with just binding and buttons to be added.

We didn't all get our quilts completely finished - but it won't take us long. Aren't the gold cornerstones in Morag's border gorgeous?

I don't seem to have taken any pictures of my quilt, so you'll have to wait for me to finish stitching the binding on (and a leetle bit of quilting round the border). Later this week it should be done.

Thank you so much to Anne and Corinna for a wonderful weekend. And many thanks too to: Pepita, Claire, Rosemary, Pat, Marian, Morag, Julie, Helen and Trish for being such a brilliant group to spend the weekend with!