Craft Saturday was a success. I got some lovely polar fleece to back my first jeans quilt, and I got the borders on the top and safety pinned the front to the back. Last night I started hand quilting the top to the bottom. I have done one square. It is warm and snuggly under the quilt. I approve. The lovely polar fleece is a limey grassy green with cupcakes printed every so often and little embroidered hearts in different colours alternating. I adore it and want more MORE!
On Sunday I started jeans quilt Mach 2. It is less random than the first, all the patches being the same shape and size is the first improvement. The second is that I've actually arranged them into a pattern with help of the Lee. Indigo jeans on the outside, stonewash and regular blue alternate in a central 9 patch surrounded by its own border. I'm very keen to get home so I can sew the seams I pinned last night and get the top of it finished.
Mach 2 will then have to wait until I'm done hand quilting the first, and until I have money to buy backing for it. I decided against using any batting, just a layer of patchwork jeans and then a layer of polar fleece.
Also on Sunday Mum, Sister, Chelle and Giffy went with me to the Wedding show. It was pretty good. I was disappointed there wasn't a bridal fashion show. I was happy to get quotes from more caterers and cards for make-up artists. Why don't more of them tell you prices? Why?
We had dinner with Lee's parents last night and had a good look at the quotes we already had and the one we'd been kind of thinking we'd go with turned out to have lots of hidden costs. It worked out twice as much as we'd thought! Lee is unhappy because the cheaper option has less flash food....*le sigh*
So, more quotes needed. Happily Angelic-Mother-in-Law-to-be is doing the caterer quote legwork this week.
AAAAaaaaaand that's about my weekend apart from the dinner at KK Malaysia followed by Svend's Flatmate-warming on Saturday night at which I talked to many people and spread around my two new words.
Smugget: Somone who is too smug for words. Alternatively: a suburb in Scunthorpe. Alternatively a dilapidated old warship.
Degrees of smuggetidity were determined on Saturday night, but I don't remember them. There was maybe Smugget lite?
Exsanely: Extreme and Insane. e.g. "It was exsanely expensive".
Posted by jenni at May 2, 2005 02:29 PM