Across Borders

Across Borders we are because we are a group of people from Yorkshire and Lancashire and we are also a group with members from England and Scotland. Everyone's happy!
We are now in the business of making our blocks into quilts-some will be ready for the Harrogate Show this year and some will need to wait until next year. So the seagulls are coming home to roost - until another one takes off!

...ACROSS BORDERS!

...first, we'd need to think of a name for our group. We'd been together as a group since starting our City and Guilds course in September 2008, had become really good friends and loved getting together. Davina led us into the extremely arduous business of finding a name-much harder than you'd think! We ended up with a huge list of suggestions then carried out a straw poll, checked on Google for anyone else with that name(as far as we could) and came up with...

 

Helen couldn't make it in Reveal Day and so we were a parcel short. We spent the day making the last block because and talking about the possibility of entering the finished quilts in the North of England Quilt Show, however...

It was so exciting opening these packets when they dropped through the letterbox! Seeing all the different approaches and techniques used was great-it never fails to amaze me just how creative people are.
Taxed with the same instuctions, there is never the same outcome by two people-wonderful!

And so, month by month,  the postmen were busy helping our seagulls on their way to the next destination.

 

The block finished, it was then posted to the next person in the circle who bought another fat quarter and made the next block.

...who bought a further co-ordinating fat quarter and made a block according to specific instructions - Month 1 - include squares, Month 2 -half square triangles, Month 3 - applique. Month 4 - curves, Month 5 - stripes, Month 6 - points, Month 7 - crazy patchwork, Month 8 - star(s) Month 9 - square within a square.

The Circular Seagull Reveal Day

...and so the Circular Seagull Reveal Day arrived. The blocks designed and worked by all the members our City and Guilds group had been completed and it was time to see them all. We met up for a day and with great excitement opened our parcels. Remember, we'd started off 8 months previously, by sending 3 fat quarters to the next person in the circle...