These are my new Fat Quarters from Thailand! How exciting! Like lots of other things in my life, they are courtesy of ebay. The purple floral fabric is from a seller I have purchased from in the past and I adore him. I'm not sure how I can, since I've never met him....but I just like the fact that he's called Pim, is always so courteous and polite, packs the products beautifully and er, sells fabric. What is there not to like about him?! He's bound to be gorgeous. I don't want to think about the possibility that he could, in reality, be a 30 stone hairy bloke called Dave who slouches around in tracky bottoms and who actually works from an industrial estate in Coventry...no, I'm not thinking about that.
Look at these things....
They're for my next patchwork quilt and having collected most of the bits, I just needed a few pieces in the right colours, Oriental in feel, and with the beautiful gold detail. And they're perfect. Now, I swore blind after completing the bed quilt that I would never ever make a quilt again haha! But this is to be a very manageable lap-quilt of approx. 4ft square and thus an absolute doddle to work on compared with the uber-monster bed quilt.
The quilt is to be a Christmas gift ( yes, yes, yes we're in March, I know ) for a special friend M. As in James Bond but she's much better than that. She doesn't yet know about this blog so I'm trying to retain a sense of mystery - just in case I'm found out! Anyway, M is a very dear friend and the first one I made when I moved to Leeds. She and her husband have been extremely good to me over the past 16 years and I so want to give M a special gift which reflects how grateful I am and how much I hold her in esteem.
The plan is that the design will be a 'snowball ' pattern, 12 fabrics in total. I think I've chosen the right colours for M. I'll post the full brigade when the shapes are cut and basted etc. I can feel some fabric pressing and cutting approaching....a new patchwork project...nothing beats it.
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