A Shock of Pink!

Pink string quilt, machine quilted and backed in lilac....

(As usual, I made the blocks with solids squares using my 'Double your String Blocks Tutorial'.)

I made this quilt for a friend who is hoping to adopt a little girl. She has decorated the bedroom in Lilac and I do hope this is not going to be too pink...

For those who love pink, I guess you can never be too pink, but for those of us who don't, there is a limit to how much pink is too much LOL.

An obligatory cat picture:

She is a great snuggler especially if it's in a spot that I have just been lying in!

Sewing Companion

Yesterday I got out of bed and said to my darling husband that I just had to sew today. The past few weeks I have been very low on energy and inspiration, but I had a piece of novelty fabric in pink that I thought would make a nice quilt for a friend's little girl...

I cleared the kitchen table, set up my cutting mat, rotary cutter and rulers and started to cut this large print into what I thought was usable strips....

I cut other solid pinks to go with the large print, but because my novelty print was odd sizes (6.75" and 5.25" to accomodate the design) I suddenly lost my way with it..

Frustrated and desperate to sew something, anything, I grabbed a pile of strings and random strips and sewed a few blocks...

Last night as I was clearing away and cutting solid squares so that I could double my string blocks, I had company...

Lovely purry cat company!

Scraps? Yes, please!

Erm, well that's what I always say, but when I went to tidy my sewing room I noticed that I was becoming a scrap collector LOL! 'Grumps' put a curtain rail up in the spare room where I have a temporary sewing space and to enable him to get to the window, I had to move my sewing table which I have now admitted was far too large for the space. So large in fact that I could hardly sew at it. Sounds crazy, but it allowed almost no space for a chair in front of it before meeting the bed. Sooooo, the table has come out, I've had a little tidy and I have reduced 2 bags of African scraps into...



55 (untrimmed) string blocks and half a bag of almost useless crumbs which I will probably just send to DS1's nursery. One of the bags came from an SA friend and I have had them for ages, the other bag was scraps from blocks I've made. Oh, it's good to use scraps!!!

DH allowed me to sew in the lounge for 2 nights. I got to watch tv and just sew, sew, sew. I'm thinking of doubling the blocks by adding a black HST to each...



But at least now they are more usable in this form.



I have a few swaps to attend to and then I plan to attack another box of scraps! Those string blocks are fun and make up really fast.


On the T-shirt front, the "mom' phoned to say that twins loved their gifts and DH said he saw one of my dinosaur t-shirts at kids tennis coaching that afternoon.


Of course you can never get kids to pose...



However, he did wear his for 2 days so I'll definitely make some more soon... keep your eyes peeled, because if I get really good, I'll put some in my shop :-) or you can custom order one [sewkalico at yahoo dot co dot uk]