The Wool Palace: Best in show?

Goodness, that was a bit of a blog break. We're back from a lovely couple of weeks in Provence. We spent our days walking up spectacular river gorges and our evenings drinking dirt cheap rosé under the stars on our campsite.

Now it's back to earth with school uniforms to sort out and work starting again, sigh.

I finished my Brit Quilt Swap 3 mini before we went away.

I had the top finished for a while and was unsure about how I wanted to quilt it. In the end I kept it simple and just outlined each block with some parallel lines.

I backed it with a Flea Market Fancy print and bound it with some yarn dyed gingham I bought as a bolt end from Eternal Maker a while back. The binding wasn't a choice I had thought of in advance, in fact I think I grabbed it off the shelf at about 10pm, but I was very happy with it and think it adds a nice pop to the quilt.

I finished this the night before our village Flower Show. I don't really grow flowers and my vegetables have been a disaster this year, so on a whim I decided to enter the mini in the handicrafts section.

I was actually there while the judging was being done - all anonymously of course - so I got to eavesdrop on the deliberations. There was some to-ing and fro-ing, but in the end

I won first prize! Our village is tiny, but people make a big effort to keep things like the Flower Show going. I collected by 50p prize money with pride and I'll try and make sure I enter something again next year.

Back from the show and back from holiday, I've put a label on the mini and posted it off with a few other goodies to my swap partner. I hope she likes it - I'll always have good memories of making it.