Fan-Tastic

This week was so hot that I wished for a Scottish summer, although it was hot there too. I was glad of the neck fan and bedroom fan that I had bought. One night it was 28 degrees and even my stone cottage was hot upstairs. There is no air-con at work and we were sent home at 4pm where all I did was water my garden, marvel at how fast runner beans got and try to beat the slugs to the odd strawberry.

Goosey Quilters, based in Tavistock, is celebrating its 40th anniversary so some of their members came along to longarm some of the 40 Linus quilts that they have made to hang at their exhibition in September. They completed 8 quilts as a team effort and had fun learning how to free-motion quilt on longarm machines. 

I decided that it was time to declare that my patchwork coat pieces are ready to be made into a garment. I could probably go on adding scruffy kantha hand stitching to it for ages but I think there is already enough. I cut out the lining with scissors on the floor without pattern weights. This is the second lot of lining that I have bought for the coat as I lost the first lot in my move. I need to ask for advice on how to put it together because the original pattern is for an unlined coat made from boiled wool and it has a flappy front that flops backwards in some ingenious way. Hopefully I will just make an outer and inner coat and put them together…