Today I finally got chance to tidy the sewing room - believe me it needed it! (A couple of weeks ago as I was getting ready for the latest LMQG meeting I remembered I was meant to be taking some 5" charms to swap and I had a charm pack in mind to pull them from - but could I find it??? I found it today behind some other fabric having fallen down the back of the shelving!)
Anyway, I digress.....
About 6 haircuts ago, I changed hairdresser. As we were discussing at Aneela's embroidery class yesterday, I'm frightened of hairdressers. I confessed this at my first consultation with Brett, and he made it his mission to make me not worry any more. Since he started cutting it, I've had more compliments about my hair than I've ever had, so when he and his partner had their first daughter, about 9 weeks ago now, I decided I would make a little something.
I had a charm pack of Freebird by MoMo and another of Chrysalis by Sanae, both for Moda, both with butterflies and flowers and similar colours. As they are such lovely bright colours, I thought they'd be perfect for a baby quilt. So this afternoon I got a simple patchwork top pieced, and made a scrappy solids binding in the main quilt colours. I'm going to back it with yellow magic beans, I think.
Then I just have to hope they went with modern funky colours and not traditional pink!
(I also realised I seriously need a new camera, and can't keep taking blog shots with my mobile phone!)
'.... and I'm feeling gooooood! Dummmm, de-dummmmm, de-dummm, de-dum, de-dum-di-de dummmmm.....'
On Wednesday, my machine and I went for a little trip, coffee, chat, sewing, and I was somewhat stunned to realise when I went to get my machine for this sojourn that it was still in it's carry bag where it had been since retreat! A whole month without using my sewing machine. I knew I'd been off my game, but that shocked me, even so.
This weekend has seen me battling to finish a project I was doing for someone else, and then late last night, after singing along to 'Mamma Mia', in an effort to avoid the second half of the football, I decided it was time to get on with some fun sewing.
So out came this, a project I last worked on back in March on our Cornish holiday. It's taken from this tutorial and I had completely forgotten how much I love it and the colours are so cheerful. Last night I managed to get all the pieces laid out, and realised that I needed at least another 14 'blocks' made up, so I'm now going through all my fabrics trying to find about 20 more that I can make up into squares and circles, and then start rearranging the main part of the quilt I've already done to incorporate the new pieces so they're properly spread out.
Then I just have to keep them in the right order while I start sewing them altogether - think many photos will be necessary! But hey, it feels great to be back!
