Hooray! It is all official today.

The chess table has been covered in presents for a now I was finally allowed to open presents!

As of today the count is up to 11 pieces of fabric for the quilt. Wanna see what I got?

Sylv sent me these two pieces of 'Just Dreamy' from the Riley Blake collection.

Maria gave me three really different green pieces. The pictures are weeny but if you look closely you can see in the windows of the naive houses are lit candles. So sweet! It is 'spirit of winter' by Whimisicals for Four Corner. Don't know who made the Japanese looking trees but I love it. Plus a piece of my beloved Amy Butler.

The very sweet JennyFlower sent these delights. The cakes are Robert Kaufman "Sweet Tooth" and the fabulous flowers 'Waltzing Matilda' by Phillip Jacobs for Rowan. How apt is the name of the flowers?

Despite having already given me the Fortnumesque stripes shown in the previous post my sister had hidden these two prints inside my birthday presents. There is no selvedge on the apples (oh apples how I love thee!) but the chickens are from Wilmington prints.

And finally from Amanda en famille these two pieces. Oh poor 'Manda. I have caused her no end of saga asking her track down a fat quarter, I apologise but all of your mental stress was well worth it because these are beautiful.

The hearts remind me of strawberries and cream and the other piece? I think that may just be a quilter's dream.

Seeing how different the fabrics are that people identified as being something I would like is fascinating. This is gonna be fun!

Uhoh! It is sneaking up on me now.

There are only four sleeps left of my thirties and do you know? I really am fine with that. More importantly I had another package arrive this week. Again all the way from Australia, again loaded with intiguingly shaped and shinily wrapped parcels. It is sitting next to the others on the chess table in the living room.



Of course when it actually is my the happy day nothing will be opened until after lunchtime as my boy is off for a birthday sleepover at a mate's house the night before. I am hoping my reward for such delayed gratification will be a guided tour (or at least a sticky) as the house is actually a rather enormous renovation/conversion of an old Vicarage at the top of the hill. And gorgeous presents obviously.



I have been asked a few times what a fat quarter is and I put my hand up, I should have included more details. CK did say not everyone would know what I meant but I just did not include the information anywhere. (Curses! I hate it when he is right.) It is (approximately) 55x50 cm or 'half a half a metre'. Just a big enough piece of fabric that my clever and talented friend can chop up into sharp-edged shapes and then turn the lot into a delicious quilt. Maybe that is what I should call it - the Delicious Quilt. Yes for now the working title will be 'The Delicious Quilt.

Fabric from my sister :-)

Woohoo!

I got my first quilt fabric today!! And so now the journey begins in earnest.


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