Well, I can't believe how quickly this year has gone.......
I have been soo busy - quilting and lace making and holidaying and visiting shows.

We went to Spain at the begining of the year, then went to Cornwall and Bath on main holidays. 
The other time we were away from home was when I went to the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham. I belong to the Quilters Guild and joined the Traditional arm of the Guild last year so have made lots of new friends.  We were asked to make a small quilt on the subject of the Suffragets to be hung behind the Traditional Guild stand at FoQ.  Those quilts were seen by some one who asked if we would allow themn to be taken to an exhibition in Prague....of course it was given...so I have a little quiltlette going to Prague to an exhibition in April , with all the others of course! We will not get these little babies back till September next year as after Prague they are going to the Bramble Patch in Weeden for the whole of August.

Earlier in the year the Thamside Quilt group I belong to asked members to produce a quilt to go into the Grosvenor Exhibition held at Sandown Racecourse in June so I made one..we were then asked if we would allow them to stay with Grosvenor and go round the country to their other exhibitions - of course we would! I should get my quilt back sometime next year.

I finally finished the piece of lace I had on my pillow for over 14 years......it is now waiting to be mounted onto a table cloth....I will do it sometime this next year - promise!  I am now doing small pieces of lace as samples just to remember how to do other types of lace.

I have just prepared and given permission for two quilts to go to an exhibition in a place called Ailsa Craig west of Toronto in Canada.  This is through the Traditional Quilt Guild and they will be on exhibition there in May.  The Quilters Guild are doing all the arrangements to get them there and then home again - all I have to do is get them to the Guild museum in York by the begining of April and collect them at FoQ next August.

 These are the two going to Canada. the top one has had more celtic work added since this picture was taken.

Well, our birthdays are over (end of November for both Brian and I) he is now 81 and I am 78 - where do the years go? (did I say that at the begining of this diatribe)  Christmas has come and gone for another year - the family all came here on Boxing day and we two were exhausted all next day, but I did enjoy seeing them all.  

I hope everyone has a prosperous New Year and I am making one new year resolution I hope to keep and that is to post here more next year. What are you all promising to do?