I'm finding it very hard to concentrate these days. I have started so many projects and not finished one this past month!! I have been hand-quilting my "summer in the park" quilt this week and that has taken two full days but it's done now and I just have to do the binding, hooray!!
I also cut lots of fq's up last week to make a little boy blanket. I've been admiring my cut rectangles all week but have been putting off actually piecing it until I get the hand-quilting done.........I'm really trying not to be a quilter with 15,000 UFO's! However, I couldn't resist and put it together on wednesday afternoon, it's a very simple design, lots of bright spring colours, perfectly suited to the little one I'm making it for.
My poor little Economy Block-Along quilt came to a standstill 2 weeks
ago when I couldn't find the fabric I wanted to complete it. I had
been using fussy cuts from Riley Blakes "The Simple Life" and I LOVED IT
but you can only use so many of the same pictures repeated. I had used
each one about 5 or 6 times and any little girl would absolutely adore
them. You can just imagine how their imagination would run wild looking
at all the little scenes. Falling asleep while making up stories to go
with them........... OR maybe it was just me, maybe I was bored with
the repetition and the fabric is far too cute to get bored of! So, I
went on the hunt and found a similar but different Riley Blake pattern
called "Little Red Riding Hood". It was on a white background too and
had a few different scenes! I also came across another gorgeous print
by Riley Blake called "Country Girl"............ah for goodness sake,
they were getting cuter and cuter..........but this one, I couldn't find
in Ireland or the UK! It seems that it's brand new and only in the US
so far. I bit the bullet and bought half a yard of both fabrics and
guess what, they arrived in just 5 days! I opened up this Happy Mail
yesterday.
Aren't they gorgeous!!!
The pictures on both fabrics are perfect for fussy cutting into my blocks! Watch this space for more progress!
So, I'm browsing the net this morning - for fear something mega happened overnight and I might have missed it when I notice someone has pinned something I previously pinned and forgotten. Oh man, I want to make that too! How did I forget about such a cute project! Then, I spy a stained glass project that a fellow quilter is making - it's just stunning and I remember how I loved doing the stained glass block in my sample quilt and suddenly I want to add one of those to my list too! So today, I'm giving myself a good talking to, telling myself to cop on, knuckle down and finish the current quilts and start making an orderly To Do List instead of starting everything at once! Let's see if that happens.........!
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| My two little helpers watching the "thorn" (needle) going up and down! |
