It's raining here this morning so it's a good opportunity to sit and drink coffee, write a blog post or do some sewing.........what are you all planning today?
This week has found me thinking once again about our quilt group. We are planning another little outing to our favourite quilt shop. Each summer we try and get together on a Saturday to visit Kaleidoscope in Glasgow. Perfect fabric choices for everyone, an excellent selection of books and lovely owners and staff. We meet for coffee before hand and usually enjoy a nice lunch and a chat. Some of us have been known to return to the fabric shop for another look. I am in the final stages of the arrangements and now just need to wait and see if the date chosen suits most if not everyone.
Our group continue to meet throughout the summer but over the last month we have been dragging our heels a bit with more chatting going on that actual stitching, numbers have fallen a little as many members have been on holiday and have not been able to be there every week due to all sorts of other commitments. I personally have been finding it difficult to have something to take along to classes to work on each week. Equipment is taken out the store and returned at the end of the night unused. With this in mind I'm hoping to come up with an idea which will be a project we can all work on over the summer at class and will not involve any major preparation when I have gathered everything together. Watch this space! There will be no need to pack bags, look out projects, or even think what we need for Tuesday night. All the utensils, notions, fabrics, instructions, etc will be in all in one box for everyone or anyone to pick up a piece and sew, sew, sew! Perhaps our fingers will work faster than our tongues.
So I have been preparing this box of goodies this week as well as working on the baby quilts. The first little one is complete for a little girl - a small pram cover/car seat cover using these fabrics and a disappearing nine patch block
A little boy quilt is now in the making using this fabric
This will be a cot quilt using the fabric for the borders and uncut 9" blocks interspersed with a blue and cream more traditional pieced square in a square type block. I'm sorry I'm not able to show these for the moment maybe in a few weeks time they may appear in the gallery.
This coming week I will be continuing to prepare our summer project and working on my baby quilts. I hope you will all continue to enjoy your quilting projects.
1 comment:
how lucky yo are to have a weekly group that meets, and a visit to Kaleidoscope I so look forward to the Harrogate quilt show where I have a good browse at their stand and a spend too no doubt. Liking both samples you have shared disappearing nine patch is one of my favourite blocks
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