Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Today it rained


Well today it rained, well poured would be a more accurate description and the rain is depressing wanting to do something different today doing anything outside was pretty much out.  So instead I dusted off - well I got out my sewing machine and started on a project.  Project: Make.

Project: Make is a quilt for a lovely friend of mine who will be having a baby boy very, very soon.  This sounds very much like I leave everything to the last minute - which I have a tendency to do it's true - but not in this instance.  I had actually pieced together a front and back for a quilt for her and baby blue but being a perfectionist I later decided that I should have stuck with my original fabric choices and so the orginal pieced quilt top and back are now hanging in my wardrobe waiting for another baby blue...

I had already gotten as far as considering what fabrics I was going to use, so today I started cutting, cutting out coins for a stacked coin quilt.  I'll confess when I finally get this quilt finished it will be my first and I have to finish this quilt as Mum to be knows that there's a handmade gift in the pipelines so she'll be expecting something and she knows I don't knit.  I think I'll share more on the sewing and the quilting tommorrow but heres the fabrics I was considering the photo taken on a far lovelier day.  The final selection were all picked to compliment Alexander Henry's 2D Zoo in Pool a fabric which I think's been around for a while but is a brilliant, bright, fun print for kids.  Maybe even big kids after all I'm not going to use it all up in this first quilt... 

The Blues
The Greens
Well despite the greyness of the day and consistent rainfall I managed to enjoy my day there was fun of seeing all the lovely fabric out, the process of cutting - this must appeal to all perfectionists out there and of course there was time for cake and tea in the afternoon which of course was accompanied by a resounding mmm lovely.

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