ON March 29, 13 women came together at Woolhope Village Hall to pool their creative talents in the name of charity.

The collective group of patch workers set to and made as many quilts as they could in the six hours they had. The day was in aid of UK children’s charity, Project Linus.

Project Linus UK is a volunteer organisation that aims to provide a sense of security and comfort to sick and traumatised babies, children and teenagers through the provision of new homemade patchwork quilts and knitted/crocheted blankets by volunteers across the UK.

All 13 women brought sewing machines, fabric and nimble fingers with them along to the day.

Organiser Heather Bentley, who teaches quilting and patchwork locally designed two patch-worked blocks, a nine patch and a pin-wheel and everyone made blocks. These then all came together to make four beautiful quilts, which is far more than they thought they could achieve in just one day.

Heather said “It was a great day, everyone worked so hard but also had lots of fun, we definitely want to do it again! Project Linus is such a worthy cause.”

Project Linus volunteers deliver around 2,000 quilts to sick, disabled or disadvantaged children across the UK every month. So far, total blankets donated to date stands at 302,036 and so far, this year: 3,993 quilts have been donated with four more on the way.