Muv

While all you North Americans are safely tucked up in bed sleeping off the excitement I thought I would start a new thread so we can get excited all over again.

It was a great thrill seeing Glenn's happy smile as he held up the quilt for the photos when he received it. Nancy did a fantastic job setting the blocks into a truly unique quilt, with 20 blocks made in three countries.

The pictures on the Vintage Sewing Machine Shop are great, but still ever so slightly frustrating. I would love to see them all up close and know who made them.

Nancy used four different machines to make the quilt. In the background of her photo of the quilt there is the leg of a treadle just peeping out at us. If we all have photos of our machines that we can post here I'm sure Glenn would keep on smiling until Christmas. Of course, as luck would have it, I haven't got a photo at the moment of the machine I used, my 1927 99K, so I shall have to sort it out later.

So to start us off, here is my block, Mrs. Trout leaping for a fly. My dad used to love going to Wales and fishing for brown trout in the rivers there. Making this block brought it all back, even the taste of a fresh little trout fried in butter...