One of the Christmas present ideas I have for Poppy is a picnic quilted rug to double as a place for tea parties and a little spot of morning tea at the park. I have been rummaging through the scrap box to see what I can find though I did love the idea of fabric shopping I wanted to explore the stash and scraps first. I had drawn up a quilt pattern on the computer, which is how I plan all my quilts. I want to challenge myself instead to make an abstract, unplanned one - I am in no way a perfectionist, but I do like to think through my ideas before I throw myself in. The best from the pile is coming to Perle 8's tonight (weather permitting, and by weather I mean Poppy) for me to Multi-task into usable shapes.More creative goodies at Kirsty's. I am hoping I can make it to the Redwork tomorrow night, depending on the Poppy-factor as well.
Thank you for all the lovely supportive comments after yesterday. Today I am feeling much more buoyant and I have a plan in place, just have to make it to Christmas - easy!
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Oh thats been in the back of my mind too! A lovely play quilt for my owlets... I'll look forward to seeing how yours progresses :)
Tea parties and morning tea in the park.....sounds utterly adorable.
I've just made a picnic rug / quilt for my daughter's 4th birthday.
Maybe I'll bring it tonight?
Andi :-)
I bet it will be lovely and loved....I need to make one before the baby comes to keep in the car for park days with the 2yr old..
Great idea - I love a bit of creative anarchy every once in a while... and it's great for relieving the guilt of the ever-increasing fabric stash too, isn't it?!! K
Sounds like a gorgeous present to me, lucky girl!!! ALso loving the fabrics choices here! Can't wait to see it! x
Oh how I would love to have someone to play tea-parties with! Might just have to make myself a picnic quilt rug.
I hope the 'weather' is all clear tonight and tomorrow... x G
If you need any more scraps am happy to let you loose it my scrap stash!
I am totally the opposite of you, I am a complete just myself in and hope for the best kind of girl. I love your gift idea, gorgeous fabrics you got there!
What a lovely idea and the fabrics are very pretty and colourful. Today would be the perfect day for a picnic xo
It sounds like you did do some fabric shopping, just in the "Stash'n'Scraps" rather than a shop. It was very disciplined of you to look at home first but it does look like you have some beautiful fabric to work with.
Fingers crossed the beautiful sunny weather outside matches the weather in your home!
a lovely project to use on the sunny days ahead
a beautiful gift for your little one ..a forever treasure :)
Beside being jealous of your abilty to create a blanket from scraps I am completely intrigued by the drawing up of the design on the computer.! I cant wait to see what you come up with. Peta
Such a sweet idea for a gift. And some lovely fabrics already.
Glad to hear you are feeling better!
We have a fabulous quilting shop in my home town. I love to just WANDER around it, looking at colours, patterns and feeling textures! Sadly, I'm inept at quilting... but I like to pretend!!
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