Whoops! It's been over a month since I last spent some time here... now it's time for some updates! Here's another of my new starts - a Tall Tales Quilt. This was a quilt along over on Instagram which I missed, but seeing all the block pop up and then the finished quilt tops, I had a brainwave for our summer: I could make blocks using some interesting fabrics from my stash, and Mia could write the stories that would be inside them. Mia managed a couple of blocks and then I just kept going without her. The finished quilt will be for her, so hopefully it will continue to inspire her.
The pattern is by @katebasti and it's foundation pieced, but very straightforward...I need 72 blocks in total for my planned layout, so someway to go still!
This is very possibly my favourite ever finish - I know I've said that in the past, but this one is going to be hard to beat. This time last year, I attended a day long lecture/workshop with Tula Pink and it was inspiring. Having not really loved her fabrics in the past (but loved her patterns), I suddenly saw them in a new light, linked with my 2018 new year's resolution to try more fussy cutting). Fast forward 8 months and I confess that my Tula stash has expanded quite a lot. I found some UK shops with older ranges of fabric, splurged on a few destashes and found the odd piece of her fabric already in my stash. The plan was always (and remains) to make a Smitten quilt, but I'm well aware that I have plenty of fabric to make other projects as well! So when I saw the Hidden Agenda quilt pattern by Angela Pingle, this fabric sprung instantly to mind.... and we all know I love a rainbow! And what could be better than rainbowfied Tula? I was ably assisted by my friend Ti
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