One Bed Three Different Quilts

Recently I washed this patchwork bedspread which hadn't had a wash in 30 years. It came up beautifully with vibrant colour restored and ready to give me pleasure again. It was started by my Aunt Dorothy and completed by moi in the mid 70s. She did the herringbone stitching for me later and good friend Jill made a lining for it.

I was reminded of the white crocheted one when friend Angela said she had been to a flea market in Utrecht recently. This quilt came from a fleamarket in Amsterdam in the late 60s. It has deteriorated over the years and now it has been bequeathed to a friend of friend along with another bedcover my mother was given in Singpore round the same time, the third bedcover pictured. Hopefully she will be able to recycle bits of both to make something new for the next couple of decades or so.

Weekend Diversion

Went to the Silverdale Pioneer Village opening of an old school building, relocated from Upper Waiwera in the 1970s after the school closed down for good. First it went to Silverdale School where it performed the function of school library, then when they got a new school complete with library on a new site the building was transported to the village where it has been restored and will be used for displays. At present there is an interesting one on the history of Silverdale and one on the Upper Waiwera school where some of the members of the Society attended.

We retired to one of the other buildings for a traditional afternoon tea which was enjoyed by all. Some of the ladies were in pioneer costume, looking very much the part.

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Happy Mother's Day

Started Mother's Day with a 5km walk around Epsom - part of the YMCA Mother's Day women's fun run/walk, 5 or 10km. Accomplished the walk around leafy streets with big old villas and lovely gardens in just over an hour and even won a spot prize, the bowl and platter in the picture, which will come in handy for our lunch time salad and cold meats.

The day before I was part of the winning team at bowls when we played another club from Papakura and came home with another prize, the heat stand with olives in the lower picture.

E came round for afternoon tea on Mother's Day bearing a most magnificent carrot cake which tasted as good as it looked. In the evening we went to the foodhall, which was full of mums and families celebrating the day with a meal out.

Busy Monday

Started the week with a very busy programme of events - out of the house at 9.30 am on the Knitterati trip to Papakura and back home at 9.30pm after bowls. Met a friend for lunch at Glen Innes, preceded by a fossick around the excellent Hospice op shop and went to the Celebration Choir session after that.

The purpose of the Knitterati trip was to knit in public on the

train and visit an exhibition, Living Halls, in Papakura featuring Memorial Halls built in New Zealand towns and cities after the First and Second World Wars. There were about 240 of them and the exhibition featured about 50 painted by artists from the town concerned. There was also an exhibition of the old plans found in the Archives. The curator happened to be there and it was good hearing about the halls first hand.

Am all inspired to do some patchwork again, having sorted out some patches over Easter for a small project, probably an oven cloth for one of my friends. I like to listen to music in the afternoon and do somthing useful at the same time and this fills the bill. Malkovitch liked my big butler's tray of arranged patches and plonked himself down gingerly, mussing them up somewhat. The pictures are of some of my first oven cloths from way back in the 70s or 80s.