Recently, Liz revealed that she is to become a Lovely Grandmother ....... which of course means another Lovely Baby Quilt! After an exchange of emails, a squishy parcel arrived in the post, containing these lovely bright fabrics
I popped the squares from the charm pack up on the design wall
then spent some time moving squares around to get a pleasing balance. But as always happens, the more I moved them, the more I ended up with two similar squares together. I summoned Malcolm and he moved a few round, still with the same result, but eventually we reached this arrangement
assembling a quilt like this is very straightforward - I started by sewing the first two rows together
then repeated that with the third and fourth, then the fifth and sixth rows
I then sewed these pairs together into rows
after that I sewed the rows together in pairs
and finally stitched all the rows together
I had intended to do some more work on the quilt yesterday, but unfortunately domestic duties got in the way. I had a huge basket of ironing to do, as I hadn't ironed last week because of all the decorating and organising of the studio, then I did some cooking for the freezer, and lastly I remembered I had to filter the limon-ginno
and bottle it
then I noticed that the one developed olive had fallen off Malcolm's olive tree - oh no, catastrophe, we had high hopes of our own estate-bottled olive oil!!
and worse was to come - some nasty little beasty had nibbled it!
I trimmed off the nibbled bit, but for some reason Malcolm declined to taste it (I don't like olives)
it even had a perfectly formed stone
so back to the Lovely Baby quilt. This afternoon I measured, measured and measured again, just to be sure, before I cut the strips for the binding and the borders, leaving a large enough piece for the back of the quilt
I then put that aside to do some other sewing, but I'll share that with you tomorrow, and end for today with our delicious lunch, which we had at Born in the Borders ..... we both had the sausage and bacon sandwich
and how stylish was my cuppa?!