Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The wonderful ladies from St Thomas's Church . . . congratulations!

Eighteen wonderful ladies raised £8,000 ($13,000+) for The Christie Hospital, which specializes in cancer treatments and is known worldwide.

Hilary and the girls (plus one man) made The Singing Garden Quilt - from a BOM created by me and published by Popular Patchwork magazine earlier this year. The group are to be congratulated for a superb effort!

I was invited to draw the winning ticket at their Quilt Show on Saturday but was unable to do so due to the dreaded Swine Flu plus looking after Stephen who is very ill.
It is an understatement to say how disappointed I was at not being able to attend the ceremony - and missed a lovely lunch to boot.

Luckily, Katy - web editor from popularpatchwork.com - rose to the occasion and did the honours in my place. I understand a piece of the special Singing Garden Cake (see above) is winging it's way to me by Royal Mail. It's a super cake isn't it - and what a good idea!

The magazine will be featuring pictures of Singing Garden Quilts made by subscribers - in next month's edition.

2 comments:

Maggi said...

What a wonderful fund raising effort. They are definitely to be congratulated. Hope the cake will help you to get over your swine flu, it looks fantastic.

jan said...

Absolutely BRILLIANT, and may I say, all down to you. Cos you designed the QUilt in the first place. Well done Babs. I do hope you are feeling better and that Stephen too is well. lol Jan xx