Friday 13 November 2009

One Hundred and Forty

Squares cut out to quilt with.

I asked my dear daughter what she would like for christmas and the reply was
"Something to make my room look nice"
Now this is actually an improvement on previous years where she has just asked for "A surprise".
Now some of this fabric I bought to make her something with years ago and we are talking at least 6 years. It has been put away in the hope that I could think of what to make, only seeing the light of day when I would open the box, look, drool and stroke said fabric and put it away.
Some of the fabric flew all the way from Sunny Australia and the talented Levin as part of a swap, I wanted to use it for something special and couldnt think of anything more special than something for my daughter and some of the fabric is from thrifted embroidered table cloths supplied by Grandma. I am not too sure if I have too many squares but having laid the fabric on top of a normal quilt it looks slightly bigger (thanks for the idea Mum) and taking into account the seams I think it will be ok. I dont think there are any hard and fast rules about quilt sizes are there?
There are 41 days until christmas so really I need to get cracking as there are afew other things I want to make for christmas gifts also. I am still feeling a little under the weather though and dont think that my head will put up with the sound of the sewing maching just yet, so I will have to wait a little longer.

4 comments:

Pixiedust said...

Hi Sarah thanks for popping by. Just to letyou know, the fabric name tags can be purchased from www.gbnametapes.co.uk hope this helps. Pixie xxxx

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marit said...

LOVE that new header!!!

I hope you're all well again, and ready to tackle the Christmas-sewing/making/shopping!