My Creative Space - 'Echino Patchwork'

 This great adventure is the first machine sewn quilt I’ve ever made!

can you tell what it is yet?

Whodathunkit?  Me, sewing a grown up quilt using measuring and everything!?

*Whooh-Whooh* welcome aboard the Chain Piecing Express … How much do I love Chain Piecing?  Heaps! What a brilliant trick …

I’m so enjoying the discovery process and really like the rhythm of 

one thing x a gazillion

followed by

another thing x a gazillion

All things considered, it’s going well … if painfully slowly - but I’d rather get things right and only do them once! … or twice … or … let’s just say the seam ripper is still my best friend. 

Longer post to follow once I get to that inevitable "I’m totally stuck” stage …

Hop on over to Kirsty’s for heaps of far less cack-handed creative spaces

Sunday Stash - The Yum of Echino Birds Patchwork & Comments Update

 picture from fabricworm

You may have spotted something quite sultry nestling in my stash folding post a couple of days ago …





Well, I could resist no longer - four wonderful FQs of the new Patchwork Birds line arrived from fabricworm in the U.S. (what a great online shop!)

I’ve always worried that Echino colours were a little too sharp, but truth is, the texture and the neutral base of the linen helps to knock the edge off a bit.  Well, I think so anyway.  

There’s something so luxurious about it; a soft rich thickness that just urges you to make something beautiful.  

Feast your eyes on these little beauties … Etsuko Furuya = genius!

I’m sorely tempted just to make them up into napkins - at least that way they’d be seen and used daily - *swoon*

What would you make?

Comments Update: I think (I hope) I've patched the leaky comments link - I'm using Disqus - so let's see how it goes!

I'm going to extend the Melody Miller giveaway until Friday to make up for the missed time -

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Many thanks, and enjoy your Sunday!