Anyone who has lived in London knows that buses travel in packs (or whatever the collective noun for red buses is – perhaps an Entourage). It seems the same is true of patchworks (an Assembly of Patchworks?). Without intending to I finished three patchworks last week and am now quilting and backing them.

This is the part I normally hate: quilting the three layers (patchwork, wadding and backing) together. Having sat on the garden bench briefly yesterday and rediscovered how unforgivingly solid it is, I cannot finish this quickly enough. Padding for the inner of a quilt has never been more aptly named.

Jane