Liberated

I've been browsing a couple of Gewn Marston books lately but have been steadfast in my commitment that I needed to finish my many UFOs before launching into a new quilt.  HOWEVER, my dear friend and landscape gardener - who helped my make my garden what it is today - conventiently had a baby girl.  Great excuse for a new quilt.  And here it is. 

The fabric is a combination of Anna Maria voiles (which I found quite hard to sew with) some solids, some shot cottons and a piece of heavier cotton which came from Purl Soho on a trip to the US last year.  I love it and I hope little Lola will too. 

 

A fetish for Aqua

Aqua. I love always have.  When I was a kid, there were five of us ... four girls and to keep track of whose clothes were whose (especially smalls) we had to embroider a couple of stitches of our designated colour on all our clothes.  As the last of the tribe, the primary colours were all taken, so my colour was aqua.  My bath towel was aqua too I think.  Anyway, you'd think after that early childhood experience that I would hate it.  In fact, I am surprised how often it somehow emerges in the colour choice, so when I finally finished my colour wheel quilt and saw the backing/binding alongside a new "present for self" Christmas mug and my summer handbag, I had to smile.