This post is a blatant plug for my new blog " The Cottage Orne Quilt" which I have just published somewhere in the ether - please visit me there?. Here is the linkhttp://cottagenornequilt.blogspot.com/
As you know I am a great admirer of the Sundial Coverlet in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and ever since last summer when I saw it exhibited, I have been spasmodically working on a tribute project. It is a long term commitment sandwiched between my other work. I thought it was be good to do another blog about it so that it does not impinge on this one which I will still be doing as usual.
Over the years I have accumulated a file of photographs of this coverlet and have studied its details minutely. I drafted and worked some blocks last Autumn but had to put it on hold while I worked on my Little Welsh Quilt ebook. Now I am ready to begin again. It is a challenging project because the maker "MCB" was a very skilled piecer, much more skilled than I am, However, it does one no harm to be humbled by someone who lived in the time of Jane Austen! It was obviously an age of clever women!
I can't resist showing you this picture of Bella - I just happened to have my camera on my work bench bedside me! She doesn't meow like any normal cat, so has to think of ways to attract attention - this is the latest way, sitting on my monitor and staring at me. I do have a have a slimline one (monitor not cat) but I haven't changed to it yet, I'm scared everything will disappear!
As you know I am a great admirer of the Sundial Coverlet in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum and ever since last summer when I saw it exhibited, I have been spasmodically working on a tribute project. It is a long term commitment sandwiched between my other work. I thought it was be good to do another blog about it so that it does not impinge on this one which I will still be doing as usual.
Over the years I have accumulated a file of photographs of this coverlet and have studied its details minutely. I drafted and worked some blocks last Autumn but had to put it on hold while I worked on my Little Welsh Quilt ebook. Now I am ready to begin again. It is a challenging project because the maker "MCB" was a very skilled piecer, much more skilled than I am, However, it does one no harm to be humbled by someone who lived in the time of Jane Austen! It was obviously an age of clever women!
I can't resist showing you this picture of Bella - I just happened to have my camera on my work bench bedside me! She doesn't meow like any normal cat, so has to think of ways to attract attention - this is the latest way, sitting on my monitor and staring at me. I do have a have a slimline one (monitor not cat) but I haven't changed to it yet, I'm scared everything will disappear!
