A MODERN QUILT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 200, 10 June 1929, Page 8

A MODERN QUILT.

WORK OF VILLAGE WIVES. The Queen has approved and promised to accept a quilt whicji is being made for her by the village women of England and Wales (says an English newspaper).. About 200 needlewomen, representing 54 different county federations of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, will have co-oper-ated in. its manufacture by the time it is completed. Housewives in villages the country over, have when the day’s work has been done, proudly burned the midnight oil to embroider the tiny sections allocated to them.

Designed in the Queen Anne style and worked on hard-woven linen, the quilt comprises 165 small diamondshaped pieces, with a large central panel and a four-piece border. Each of the small panels is embroidered with a neat border and a spray of flowers in yellow silk. The central panel will bear an embroidered crown and the Queen’s monogram in the same coloured silk. This panel is being worked by the teachers of the various institutes. Most of the panels are completed, and they are now being placed together at the women’s institutes’ headquarters in Eccleston Street, London, to make a completed quilt measuring 9ft. lin, by Bft. 7in. The task will have taken over six months, or more than 3000 working hours, to complet^. It is hoped to present the quilt to her Majesty at the National Federation of Women’s Institutes’, arts and crafts exhibition to be held in London and Leeds in' October. The Queen is herself a member of the N.F.W.1., being enrolled with the Sandringham branch. The movement has as its object the improvement of women’s lot in the villages, and there are now 4292 institutes in existence where educational and social work is carried on.