The Quiltery

The Queen has been pondering her new residence. Of the view that sleeping on the streets of Quiltland under a dog eared four-patch was not fitting to her status, she nonetheless was anxious about building a Palace for fear that her subjects would compare her to a greedy expolitative ex-European dictator.

However a faithful aide pointed out that as she was not intending to don 20 foot ermine trains, possess a tiara, or even wear sparkly pink dresses accessorised with a glitter wand, she deserved something as a reward for existing soley to amuse her citizens.

Thus she has decided to build The Quiltery ( with thanks to Citizen Lisa for the name). The Queen will have private quarters on the top floor but has decreed that the lower floors shall be open to the public. Consultation is now taking place as to what the building shall contain/ resemble. The Queen's current thoughts are as follows:



1. The building shall be designed by Daniel Libeskind with whom the Queen is developing a slight obsession. He designs in a highly inventive way in which the structure of the building has meaning and the Queen highly recommends his autobiography. She particularly liked his tale of designing the Imperial War Museum Manchester by dropping a teapot from a window, running down and picking up the three largest shards and arranging them into the building where they now represented the shattering of the earth by war. Or something. The Queen has arranged her summer holiday to alow visitation of two of his buildings and would dearly love one all of her own.

2. There will be a series of functional rooms which can be booked by citizens to form a rolling quilting club, namely

(a) a pre-wash laundry service. Drop, go, collect dye free.

(b) sewing rooms. One room will have extra wide tables for machine sewing, one will have soft armchairs for hand quilters. One will have old films playing. The George Clooney Studio will specialise. Citizens will be able to rent lockers so that they can leave work here and come anytime they want and quilt with friends. The time zone mechanism previously reported will be localised so that a quilters individual preference for a desk can be met

(c) the stash cellar. Throughout the whole of the basement area shelves will run with stash available for all citizens renting work space. Magic will mean that this stash always has just enough of every piece of fabric and every possible embelishment ever printed/ created. However, daily rumages in the stash will be limitedto 75% of whatever the quilter needs to complete her work so that a visit to a Local quilt store ( see below) is still required.

(d) coffee posts. Nooks and crannies will have self service refreshment posts close to each work area. these will be themed to allow for allergies, dietery needs and just plain fussiness. The Quuens favourite is to be the cheesecake bar at which a fridge will contain slices of baked New York cheescake and the optics will be filled with sauces. Dishes of toppings from fruit to chunks of Toblerone will line the bar. (The Queen, like everyone else does however wish to know why Toblerone is only ever seen for sale at airports. And why at airports it is sold in bars big enough to use as an onboard weapon).

The Quiltery will be located in an environment to suit everyone, having different scenery on each side of the building so lovers of moutains, sea, country and city can all be satisfied. There will be a local comunity a short walk from the door with a local quilt shop. This shop is not yet open for trading pending the building of the Quiltery and thus the Queen welcomes comments on (a) what else you would like in The Quiltery and (b) what are the best ideas and features you have seen in Quiltshops in your nation states that we should combine in our Quiltland LQS?

Finally, please enter the Quilt Show!!