catching up and help needed.

I am feeling wonderfully refreshed by a break at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival-4 days of music and dancing, good food and real ale, noise and excitement and good company-and two days outdoor labour,  harvesting and digging my allotment.

So , where now? A quick round up of things outstanding in my  textile existence, I think.

A browse through my blog reader seems I’ve missed some exciting and thought provoking discussions and some fabulous stitching. I want to reply to many posts I have read, but can’t formulate my thoughts quickly enough for relevance. I will try to address points as they occur in the next few posts.

I have little to show of a stitching nature after my break, but soon will have. I need to be working on Fenland-that’s where my thoughts are right now. That’s a little wheaty detail on the left.  I also want to take part in the crazy quilt what if.  An idea might be taking root, but needs more compost and water yet. I  need the bed where my blue and white quilt is laid out, unfinished, awaiting more stitching, very soon. I must either stitch it or label it so I can put it back together again in the order that seems to work. And in a  fit of madness, I entered my birch quilt into a show and it it will be going on display in a couple of weeks. It needs a label and a hanging sleeve. That is priority one.

So-my question-how do I post a quilt to a show?  Having never entered a quilt show, and probably unlikely ever to do so again- I have no idea how to package a quilt. Are they rolled or folded? In a bag, a tube, a box, a package? If anyone knows the quilt posting  etiquette I would so love some advice. Also- I don’t have fancy labels to sew on the back-how has anyone else done a label?

I want to thank you again for your good wishes for our little trip away and for my birthday. I love this (essentially) sisterhood. And thanks to Marty for the blog Award-just arrived. Check out her slow crazy quilt on the theme of a Midsummer Night’s Dream.