BIG Backing

This morning I went to my LQS (Local Quilt Shop)

and bought the backing and binding fabric for

my Celtic Solstice Mystery.

Here is the quilt top laid out,

but still folded in half on the lovely big tables at

Quilting Antics in Settle.

After much ummming and ahhing and

quilt maths, I decided on a nice pale yellow swirl for the back 

and a brighter diagonal stripey yellow for the binding..

Decisions were not easy,

but at least Miss Kalico was kept busy

making fuzzy faces...

...and drawing and cutting.

(Cutting in a quilt shop you say!! 

It was scary, but she was well behaved ish! lol)

And here I am, about to fold up the quilt top.

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Here's a parting shop of Miss Kalico

in the dress I made her.

Playing with buttons. 

I remember fondly playing with my Mother's button box.

And here's the back of the dress.

Only about the 3rd time, I've done buttonholes,

but phew! they worked!