Oh I’ve been finishing stuff.
My husband has been working long hours and is getting home late, and so I get to sit in the sewing room after the children have gone to bed and not feel guilty that he’s in the lounge by himself (watching football, quite happily – why do we guilt ourselves into feeling we have to sit with him every minute of the day? He doesn’t care, he’s happy)…
I digress.
I’ve been finishing off some of the messy blocks that needed to be made up into lovely quilts, and so I present my first ta-dah for the day.
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One hundred percent made with scraps that come out of my ‘Bonnie Hunter Scrap System’ that I implemented on a very small scale a few months ago to see if it would work for me. I’m pretty sure I can say it does!
The only rules I gave myself was that I had to have red chimneys, cream background and less busy outer borders of my cottages. Everything else was as I pulled it out of the bag.
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And I’m pretty happy with it, to be honest. It was hands down one of the quickest quilts I’ve made. It really went together very fast.
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It was difficult to find a sashing and border that worked with everything, but I think I’ve compromised rather well. It defeated the purpose of using my stash if I had to buy metreage for the outside borders, so I’m happy with my choice.
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If you don’t recognise the pattern, it’s Bonnie’s Happy Scrappy Houses. I’ve had my eye on it for ages but it looked a little complicated, but gee whiz, it was EASY.
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And so, lovely readers – the first in one of my many finishes this week. I’ll post more later.
Hope your weekend has been a quilty one.
Suzie