this week

After the quilt 'Twenty Annies' going to the retreat in Perth, Leann now has it back again, it is a nice feeling to make quilts that the recipients like irrespective of whether they are simple in design.
I greatly admire finely made quilts which should be heritage listed but am most unlikely to ever create one myself, never mind I get to wrap people I care about with quilts to warm them.

At last Trevor is able to be able to be out of bed for long enough to be able to gp down the street etc., so those shopping bags I made earlier are now really being tested as the shopping is transported by wheelchair, the length of the handles is critical to keeping the bags off the wheels.


So much better than the plastic bags in my humble opinion though ....



The borders are now on my Orange Crush - thinking I 'cheated' a bit by including a border print instead of the piecing that Bonnie suggested.






However I bought the print at the same time as the orange and as orange is NOT a colour I would normally use there was no point in not using this.






IF I make a blueberry crush I will add the pieced borders on that one.






Of course as soon as I put the quilt on the line to take the photo up sprung a breeze, so you have to take my word for it that the borders are indeed flat!






Now to give it a good press and sandwich it ready for quilting.






Still have no ideas of how to quilt it though so any suggestions are more than welcome.