Learn and move on....

A while ago now I signed up for a patchwork competition - it was for the Make and Mend festival in Leicester. The outline was to make a practical patchwork item from recycled fabric. I made my City and Guilds bowl from shirts:

The festival was yesterday and I dragged Mark over there so I could pick my bowl back up. The place was packed -people everywhere - some of them unwashed. We had to ask where the competition entries were because we couldn't find anything to be told the winning quilt had already been taken home. We went to look for my bowl - couldn't find it. There were about 3 quilts and one shopping bag on a wall -no bowl. Had to ask again and the lady took us back into the room and produced my bowl - still in the cardboard box I had posted it in - from under a chair. She said she really liked it but was worried about displaying it. Mark and me came out laughing but I won't do that again.