started to catch up on blogging friends tonight - didn't get far before i was inspired by helen's blog and her disappearing 9 patch quilt.
i think I've quilted once upon a time at school - 20+ years ago! but i tend to have a bit of an 'i can't fail' attitude *sigh*
so i dug in my cupboard for scraps that i wouldn't use for anything much else and sat on the floor (being too lazy to clear the dining table after dinner) cutting them out. i have decided the cutting is the bit i hate most! but then again i don't have a rotary cutter etc, i was using a template and cutting 2 at a time with regular scissors. perhaps next time i'll borrow mum's lol
the sewing was easy though i've only done one and it's bedtime! the rest will have to wait. this can become a little blanket for emelia for her birthday - she loves to put things over her teddies, little people, the cats etc (hehe) so this can be for that.
the colours don't do it for me (i'd love gorgeous fabrics like helen's) but they'll do for this purpose.
i'd love to make a nice one for ryan ... one day... maybe !
3 comments:
Well good for you Brazen!!! A hot tip for you: www.equilter.com - they are really prompt, very easy to deal with and on their website they have a 'design wall' feature so you can put 'swatches' of all your fabrics together to see how they look before you commit to buying.
I just bought 10 yards (nearly 10 metres) of good quality quilting fabric from them and it took around a week for it to arrive from the US. Much of it was Robert Kaufmann fabric (very funky) and was only US$4.95-$9.95 per yard. That compares to around Aussie $22 a metre here...they also do combo packs :)
Cheers, Lilywashere (EBer)
Hey Brazen! You clever thing, whipping this up! Is so easy huh? Looking foward to seeing it finshed, can't believe you cut the squares with scissors! LOL :)
Hey there quilting mumma! I just did my first quilting effort to and I agree about the cutting out, it is a real pain. I have a rotary cutter but it is a cheap dodgy one. I am sure that is why I find it so difficult, it couldn't possbly be my poor cutting skills, lol.
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