Corris Uchaf, Wales
Posts tagged wallhanging
Aide to memory?
Mar 21st
BBCÂ News Wed 18th feb 09
“Those who had during middle age been busy reading, playing games or engaging in craft hobbies like patchworking or knitting were found to have a 40% reduced risk of memory impairment… a US study suggests.
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This is something us Patchwork Quilters have known for years… NOT!!
Where did i put my snippers/scissors/cutter/pins?
I know I have a piece of fabric that would be just right… It was in this cupboard/box/drawer… wasn’t it?
Oh sorry dear I really forgot to check the dinner… Is it really burnt to a cinder?
That’s why for years we’ve been creating ‘Quilts and Wallhangings’ to help us remember!
Recently, In our March Newsletter we highlighted a lovely quilt found nearly completed and I was asked by the owners if I could finish it so they could use it and show off the hours of love given to this quilt by a lady ‘Ada Beard of Snowshill, Gloucestershire.
“Her family had been Licensee of The Snowshill Arms in the village for many years. Ada never married and ran the pub, almost to her death in 1968 at the age of 91. Ada was a second cousin of my husbands great grandmother Anne beard, When she left ’The Snowshill Arms’ my husband had to empty the pub and found the quilt almost finished, his best guess is that Ada made it in the years between 1897 and 1948″.
I got to thinking, does anyone remember this lady Ada from the ‘The Snowshill Arms’ and does the present licensee have any interest in Patchwork & Quilting?
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Easter 2008
Mar 23rd
Well here we are, Easter 2008 and not a word from either Jane or Suzie despite the promises of at least one of them ….. But Suzie has only just returned from Oz seeing her newly married daughter in her new home (and hopefully sampling many of the delights of Australian Quilting). will she now post some photos here? – Welcome home Suzie and Gary
Despite everything, Jane has survived the worst of the winter in her small. cold craft unit. She has worn her frozen fingers to the marrow with new quilts and patchworks,
These are now spread about her unit in Corris for all to see and admire. We are now back full-time 7 days a week until the end of October
Jane has almost completed our latest Welsh Wall Hanging – a new, commissioned, Ddraid Goch for 2008. This will be going to the USA with its owners when they move later in the spring. We trust they enjoy it every day, and that it brings many happy memories of our rich Welsh heritage and country.
Easter is upon us, we’ve had more visitors in the last two days than in the last 3 months combined (although that’s not saying much) despite us being open 5 or more days a week. Very good to see everybody, and to welcome back old friends, despite the arctic weather with hail, snow and a bitter wind. But, just up the road, Cadair Idris looks magnificent with its old crater ringed with snow, like an appropriate Ice-Age Halo.
We hope to see you at Corris Craft Centre, free entry and a good day out for all the family. Don’t forget to pop in and say hello…………. , and also pay a visit to the newly painted cafe with its rather fetching blue and white blinds (courtesy of Bumble Bee Quilting !!)
2007 Celtic Wallhanging
Jul 14th
We have completed our 2007 Celtic wallhanging, All our own work and design.
This was hanging from the rafters from our craft unit at Corris. Very good it looked to – bright and very Welsh – a pleasurable addition to the display of our fabric works.
But, not for long. It has been sold to a lady from South Wales for her house. She has thus far traced her ancestry back to our very own Owain Glyndwr, so it’s an honour to have her displaying our ddraig goch (red dragon).
The shop seems empty though without it – hopefully she will send us a picture of it in its permament home that we can share here.
Where have I been?
Jul 19th
Its been a long old time since an update on Bumble Bee Quilting. So what’s been going on?
Lazyness, exhaustion, world cup or what?
Well, our workshop at the craft centre is still going, we have had some interesting and interested visitors, we are still quilting and making our own patchworks; and, this being mid Wales, the sun still shines.
We have nearly completed our latest two quilts, and have finished our new Celtic wallhanging, emblazoned with celtic knotwork and dragons. Pretty cool wallhanging as well if we can say so ourselves.
We are looking after 2 rats at home called Gormless and Stupid (who on a good day live up to their names and on a bad day live down to them). They are dogs really but no-one’s ever told them that and they “think” of themselves as rats (not that either is capable of a thought) and will answer to rat.
Sadly Jemma’s 7 year old grey cat Dylan (Bobby or Mr D) secumbed to an unknown poisoning, and has been cremated. He was returned in a very smart wooden urn. The kids took it well, but his new kitten friend Sammy (Gizmo) is still finding memories and looks out for him.
We have also had some visitors at home, Sally and Alan stayed with us for 5 days and shared some of their photos of their epic visit to the Pitcairn and Galapagos Islands as well as a spot of unsuccessfull fishing on the Tal-Y-Llyn.
We also had great meal at the Railway Inn at Abergynolwyn and were greeted as usual by a sorrowful pair of hungry eyes belonging to Winston, the pub’s dog, who still thinks he is wasting away and has never eaten a chip in his life. Actually he is a bit on the heavy side of large so we think he is wallowing in some underserved self-pity here, but he does look so sorry for himself.
Ginny, Andy, Jessie, Maggie and Bob were making their annual visit to Aberdyfi and popped in to say howdey; as were Lesley and Tony with their two lads.
Great to see them all. Living in such a remote area really makes us appreciate old friends and family.
The Wednesday market at Machynlleth continues, generating interest and sales in our fabrics and quilts.
And loh and behold, we won a game of dominoes beating the team from the Bowling Club (don’t sing your usual song here JB). A close game, keenly fought in a friendly fashion. Great opponents who beat us handsomely last time on their turf. This was on the back of two away deafeats to the Forresters and the Glyndwr. Always fun to play you guys and girls. Diolch yn Fawr.
So we soldier on – and don’t forget your squares for the Teresa Anna Quilt.
A Quiet couple of weeks
May 7th
Easter has passed, and so has the first May bank holiday.
The trees are greening, the birds singing and the countryside reinvents itself at this magical time of Spring.
There can be no where on earth as beautiful as Spring in Mid Wales, and especially at Corris Craft Centre.
Like silk worms we continue to sew and weave our way through our current projects. We have nearly completed our two Celtic wallhangings with our versions of the Red Dragon and celtic knotwork. Hope you like them.
We are also developing a theme of celebratory Welsh love spoons, built in woodlike fabrics, with personal inscriptions embroidered onto them. Rare and charming gifts for those special days.
We hope to have illustratory pictures as soon as we can.
Even better, come and see them at Bumble Bee Quilting…..
