GRRR....

Only just got around to starting sewing the baby's quilt. Merrily joining triangles, and then thought, "Hold on. Let's just make one complete block and make sure it's OK"

I'm doing a block called Windows which I got from Quilters Cache
an excellent source by the way!

I can't find a picture of it, but it's a very simple block with four triangles in the middle making a square and then a border....so there I go four triangles joined, and pressed. First border piece in hand and....o-oh...there's no way this is going to fit it's far too small! To cut a long story short....the triangles should have been cut from 5.25" squares, but my square was 6"! Duh....so I must have totally mismeasured all the squares that I made my triangles from!
I haven't got enough fabric to cut them all again, so I'm going to have to trim them up to the right size...good thing I have plenty of time!!

Quilting is good for you...

It's official! Have a look at this article in the Daily Mail....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2002862/Why-quilting-uniquely-good-us.html

I don't know why but this reminded me of a friend at work, who doesn't have a creative bone in her body. When I showed her the quilt top I was working on and explained briefly how it was done, looked at it in puzzlement, and simply said "But isn't that very time consuming!" I think she missed the point!

At last....something crafty!

At last I'm getting round to doing something crafty....it's been such a long time since I did anything remotely involving a needle and thread!

In true form this is another new project not a UFO (roll eyes)

It's going to be a little quilt for my cousins daughter (I can never figure out if this is my second cousin or removed or whatever!) who is expecting her first.

I have the fabric all cut out....



I hope to start piecing it this weekend...I've got plenty of time (famous last words!) as she's not due till August. I don't know if she knows whether it's a boy or a girl so I've put in a bit of everything! I couldn't believe how difficult it was to find suitable fabric for a baby quilt! I went to two shops, one of which was almost an hours drive....I searched on line and in the end I just had to compromise. The only one I found that was babyish was the blue one which has tiny teddies on it.