Last Saturday I spent a really lovely day at the Quilters’
Guild Library in York, researching quilt blocks and their stories. It is housed in a lovely room just off the
exhibition hall, with a pleasant view of old brick buildings and roofs out of
the window.
I was helped by Hugette, one of the fabulous and
enthusiastic volunteers who enable the library and the museum to function. I wish I lived closer so I could use the
library more and help out by volunteering.
Unfortunately, five hours of travel to get there make it logistically
impossible!
I stupidly forgot to bring squared paper and was trying to
draw some of the blocks freehand. It
provided me with new respect for the authors of the pre-1980 quilt books I was
looking at, as they had all drawn the blocks by hand, in the days before
computers could do it for us. Those were
the days of true dedication!