Chinese Coins for Easter

I am taking part in Calamity Kim’s Doll Quilt Challenge and the theme for March / April is Chinese Coins with a green/spring/Easter feel. I had been thinking about what fabric I would purchase for this for weeks - and then completely forgot about it whilst at the awesome 29% off everything sale.

However, whilst working on my scrappy, wonky nine patch stars on Saturday morning, I came across a little paper bag stuffed full of the narrow strips left over from the shabby floral memory quilts my mum, nanny, auntie and myself made in 2006.

There were 48 little pieces, all 8 1/2 inches long and of widths between 1 inch to 2 1/2. Perfect! I rescued a long piece of green floral I was using for the nine patch stars and set it aside for the sashing and trimmed the little pieces straight. I confess, I arranged them into a particular order - can’t help myself! - and added the pink stripe randomly throughout the four columns.

Gleefully, I sewed up my columns and then began adding the green sashing only … ! Despite having the same number of “coins” in each column they were all different widths weren’t they? So they didn’t all turn out the same length did they! So I had to add bits to the three shorter ones and alas, the column ending in the yellow polka dot is alarmingly crooked.

Hmmm… oh well!

I have been hand quilting it - just 1/8 inch from the ditch in pink. One more column to go and then I want to hand quilt a curvy line in the green sashing. Then, on the green polka dot borders at the top and bottom I am going to add some appliqued felt eggs and carrots. Hopefully start that tomorrow.

(excuse the lack of paragraph breaks - it’s a very strange Wordpress blip that only happens when I use Safari, which I’m using ’cause I’m at my mum’s - I’ll fix it up later when I’m at home :) - done!)

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