Quilts and Roses

As part of my transition from engineering career to a more "normal" lifestyle one of the things on my "to do list" is to make time for socialising (ie I need to get out more!). To this end I am attempting to join a local quilt group. I say "attempting" as my attendance record has been a bit patchy so far as something always seems to crop up on quilt night. Last month it was a sixth form taster evening. This is where the school sell their sixth form to the parents of prospective pupils. I thought you just went to the nearest one ( especially if it's attached to the school you are already at), but obviously I am quite naive.

Anyway, I  was interested to see what kind of things my new quilting group get up to by visiting their exhibition this weekend. They are clearly a very talented bunch, all the quilts were stunning, but here are a few personal favourites.

This quilt is made entirely of Liberty fabrics, the prints were beautiful close up.

I loved this one. It is made up of heart shapes appliqued on to individual squares of the background fabrics ( a variety of small scale ivory prints). I feel quite inspired by this as it would be great way to use some of the  vintage fabrics I've been collecting.

This was another favourite. It's a clever twist on log cabin (I can do that - hurrah!) and is in shades of taupe and raspberry which haven't been done justice in my photograph.

There was also a rose show next door. I've never been to a flower show before but I loved the way some of the roses were displayed.

These reminded me of a box of chocolates:

A bowl full of roses:

Way beyond my flower arranging skills:

It was our son's birthday on Sunday and as a special treat we all got to experience watching England getting knocked out of yet another football tournament! Part of growing up is accepting that England will never again win a cup and will always lose a penalty shoot out. We can all put the flags away now.....