I dragged my Mam to 'The Fat Quarters' quilt shop. Tiny baby quilts were delivered and they now have another scheme running as well. You may be seeing some pillowcases in future. They're again for hospital patients, but this time ranging in age from babies to young adults. I've picked up some instructions for sizing, but it may be a while before I get around to making some. Hopefully not as long as the quilts took.
We bought fabric for two baby quilts today.
This is for quilt number one. We don't know whether it's going to be for a boy or a girl, but I was allowed to get bright fabric. I'm just not sure they're prepared for my kind of bright. The photos don't really do justice to quite how yellow that fabric really is. You almost have to wear shades. When I made my first quilt (for Charlotte) I picked some lovely bright colours. We had a blue fabric with brightly coloured balloons on. I matched this with lots of bright orange and yellow. I love that quilt. It was shortly after I completed it that I bought a quilting book (The Quilter's Ultimate Visual Guide). It has a couple of paragraphs devoted to the colour yellow in quilts. I quote
Even when paired with purple, its natural complement, it is recommended that yellow be used sparingly. Three parts purple to one part yellow is generally considered a pleasing and harmonious proportion.Well, there's no purple at all in Charlotte's quilt and I certainly didn't use the yellow sparingly! Whoops.
Second quilt is for a baby boy. I found pirate fabric!
I love pirates! I considered it as a career choice when I was about 7. When we found the pirates we did wonder whether it was appropriate to have bottles of rum on a baby quilt. It didn't stop us buying it though.
I also bought a 'Roll Up'.
This is for a top secret project that I'll share with you later in the year. It will look very different next time you see it.
I also thought I'd share the fabric I've got for the dress I'm making for Auntie Linda's wedding.
I'm not sure whether I'm using the shiny 'right' side of the fabric or the slightly duller 'wrong' side. It's not really shiny, but I'm a bit concerned that it's going to be too 'bridesmaidy'. That's the right side showing in the photo, so it maybe won't look too bad. I have started drafting a pattern for this dress, but I'm going to need to make a mock up for it because I think I'm adding boning(!) to give it some structure.
In other news, I tried the latest version of the christening dress on Libby yesterday and I think I'll be full steam ahead with that at the weekend because it did fit.
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