Island Home Scrappy
August 21st, 2010 § Leave a Comment
The last of my Australia Rolls jelly roll nine patches were sewn up and added to the pile this morning and, when we got home( from voting, shopping, looking at a new craft computer for me, going to the sale at Spotlight, and trawling around the car shops for a connector for our Avan) Mark helped me lay them all out with the snowball blocks. We played around with the arrangement of the blocks until we were happy with the placement and there they lie, on the rug downstairs, until I am ready to get sewing tomorrow. I have, however, finally come up with a more apt name for this quilt: my Island Home Scrappy. I’ve wanted an Australian quilt since I got my citizenship six years ago, and will finally have one very soon!
In the meantime I’m excited about my next project for which I bought all the fabric today. I’m a VIP member at Spotlight and got a coupon via email entitling me to $40 off when I spent $100 between last Thursday and this Sunday. I went crazy: three metres of two border fabrics and 33 fat quarters later I paid $70 at the register for $110 worth of material!
The pattern that I’ve fallen in love with is ‘Land of Lincoln’, from the new issue of American Patchwork & Quilting.
I had planned to make it in the same colourway as pictured in the magazine, as I love brown and blue together, but Mark vetoed that as he thinks brown and blue together will date quickly and look “old and drab”.
Far be it from me to argue with the other body who will be sleeping under the finished quilt, and I decided to go with golds, purples and greens instead. I’m not entirely sure that I will be making the central medallion as in the pattern, and am considering some appliquéd flowers and berries, but that is only a notion at this point.
I’ve got six nine patches left over and have decided that they will be the start of my attempt at making linen – sheets and pillowcases – for us once we’ve moved to the new apartment in October.
