A flimsy for the Quilt Along with AHIQ
A Pocket Full of Posies
and if you've been following my progress you will know that I passed on the tulips
for the centre
and went with a flower collage.
After auditioning fabrics for the border I decided to try out Kaffe's Spot collection,
the one I chose was the Autumn colourway.
I tried out various widths both narrow at 1 and 1/2" and wider at 3"neither
of which made me happy, something was missing, so I decided to break the border
into two different widths of Spot with a very narrow band of Poppy Garden,
separating them,
this was the fabric used to cut the collage. To quote Goldilocks
after tasting two bowls of porridge, she tried the third bowl and this was
"just right".
A Pocket Full of Posies is currently 45 and 1/2" square, before quilting.
Two days ago I had a visitor, yes, another squirrel
appeared in my little studio following the arrival of the book below,
which absolutely gorgeous,
in which Kaffe shows a particular quilt and I immediately
knew I had to make one, again not following strictly his colour scheme nor
the setting but doing my own thing!
I began to play with a few of my 2 and 1/2" squares and cut a few
more from Aboriginal Dot in Orchid
I'm well and truly hooked on this project, I have a few more
currently in the "to finish" basket of course and I'm working on a plan to
finish these up. Choosing fabrics and design I enjoy the most, quilting not so much,
hence I have approximately 23 quilts, large and small in the afore mentioned basket.
Along with patterned squares will be the fabric selection below and no doubt more will be added
but not to be included in this particular quilt will be the two new Tula Pink fabrics below.
After all the excitement of the arrival of the book and pulling out squares
it was an ideal time to take a walk around the block,
here's the view from Sandspit Road a little further along the road from our home.
The cloud formation looks like a roll of pleated cotton wool from
a first aid box!
I'll leave you now with one of our flowering sasanqua camellias
Early Pearly
Until next time - Happy Quilting
Maureen
