My Patchwork Group sponsored a day of friendship with another local patchwork group. Our members decided on a theme for the day, provided fabric, patterns, irons, and food. We sat around tables to stitch a square, visit, and eat some very good food. The theme today was the beach and we made squares that resembled cabanas. There was a small quilt expo and a small square of beach. Each table had 8 quilters and had to produced 24 squares. At the end of the day there was a raffel and one person from each table from the invited club took home a project to finish.
As this was my first time doing anything like this, let lone in France I was curious to see how the day would be organized. People came early enough for petit dejeuner if they wished. The club members provided everything and came with electric kettles, baguettes, jams etc. At lunch there is a tradition over here to travel to such events with your table setting. At 12:30 when we broke for lunch people brought out beautiful plates, cups, Laguiole flatware, etc. I was most impressed. Lunch began with the apero (vin rose with grapefruit sirop, moved on to both fish and meat platters, salad, cheese, dessert, and finally coffee.
It was great fun and I completed my first patchwork square. I will post more photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/petillant tonight when internet traffic is slow.
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