posted by Lily on homely, quilts

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Oh you’ll be relieved to know I woke up feeling so jolly this morning – I was!  :-)  It felt so good to be back to normal.   I wonder if the planets were strangely aligned this week – you should have heard some of the customers we had in the bookstore!  Never mind, let’s move on.

Saturday.  No visitors.  No appointments.  Nothing to do except plonk about the house with Julian and Abby.  And do a little grocery shopping.  And … since it’s Mother’s Day tomorrow … take our very first trip to Patchwork with Gail B.  It’s 40 minutes from here, on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne.  Situated in the back of a tile shop.  I have been wanting to go for months.  But I’m not the bravest of girls when it comes to driving to new places a long, long way away.  And besides  – I can’t drive now.  Leg in cast and no valid license.  So visiting this legendary fabric store became a family affair and oh what fun it was!

Betty (our car) and Eva (our GPS) took us the strangest way – I swear we took every second left hand turn and every third right hand turn there was.  We even wound up back on roads we’d travelled along ten minutes earlier.  Strange.  And we drove past so many fast food places that before long, Abby and I had quite the hankering for dreadful fast food.  Alas, on the way home, silly Betty and Eva made a beeline straight for the freeway and there was nary a fast food outlet to be seen.  Bummer.  But we did come home with lovely, lovely fabric.  Ah it was bliss.  I haven’t been in a patchwork store for MONTHS.  And we only had half an hour – they close silly early – 12pm – blimey!  Was I frantic!

I have some delicious fat quarters in 10 different shades of blue and 3 shades of perle cotton for quilting – mmmmm …. can’t wait to start.  It’s all organised and ready in my mind.  Just have to start cutting.  And then there’s the six pieces of “white”.  Remember Julian’s desire for a white quilt.  Well it would seem I put too much yellow in the last one  so I’m making another one.  What a shame – I have to make another quilt.  I think I’ve sorted the pattern.  Then there’s four pieces from one of the Momo ranges – I have brown and red butterflies – yum.

Finally – some gorgeous Lecien sailors.  Now I did indeed bounce out to the sewing shed this morning, all ready to make flying geese – and even stitched up the first row.  But once I was home with the sailors and the latest Country Style, it was shove over geese, I have squares to piece.  Again!

And whilst it doesn’t look much like the cushion on the cover after all – I’m hopeless at sticking to simple – it is awfully pretty and looks very sweet on the sofa with yesterday’s effort.  And we can get those geese flying tomorrow.  Must keep focused.  Must not start chopping into those blues until the cushions are done.  Focus, focus lily, focus.

y-e-s-s-s-s-s but there’s fresh, new, sparkling, jolly fabric to be played with …