Getting creative: Nurses and patients at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre with the patchwork quilt
Hundreds of scraps of waste material were put to good use by nurses and patients at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington, Oxford.
In just 10 days, they finished a patchwork quilt, the size of a double bed, to be auctioned at an event organised by the hospital’s sports and social club in 1976.
The idea of making a quilt came from Sister Zoe Elliott and when she returned from a weekend off, she found most of the work had been done.
The money was needed by the club to repay £500 it borrowed for a sports hall.
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