The scrapbooking madness of last week has given way to a mania for patchwork. I have been making a quilt for Katy's girl baby and it's so cute!
I went to spotlight yesterday for some more fabrics as I wanted to make an "I Spy" quilt, which is when you have big patches of printed fabrics with stuff on them so that you can then play "I Spy" with the child. I went through my fabric stash on the weekend and realised I had a few good prints, but a definite tendency to butterflies and not enough to make an interesting quilt. Yesterday I purchased fabric featuring kites, tractors (love that one), fairytale characters, fairies hiding in flowers, dragons and a kind of Harry Potter-esque rip off print with images of unicorns, dragons, ships, castles and wizards.
ahem. I may have also purchased giraffes on green and a selection of desserts of trademe. Fabric is cheap over trademe!
So, I'm limiting myself to one butterfly fabric per quilt and making a tending-towards-pastels for the girl baby and a tending-towards-brights for the boy baby and hoping I'm not starting some kind of gender programming too early. The girl one will have a bit more pink on but both will have fairies, unicorns, tractors and butterflies...so I'm not going to Hell right?
I'm gonna try and finish the girl one tonight. It's a strip quilt which means long strips running the length of the quilt make up the pattern. I might do proper blocks for the boy one so they're a bit different.
Point of Fashion: dressing warm, but with the option of cooling down later
Current Obsession: Quilts quilts quilts.