A quilt in time
I love a good quilt. I also seem to have this habit of collecting scraps of material and random bits when they are on sale - so what better way to use them all up than with a little quilt for the baby. My mum is a fantastic seamstress - very precise and accurate. I don't have that level of patience, so even though I try and do my prep - measure twice, cut once and all that jazz, there comes a point when I just want to get on with it. Which is how we end up with wonky pieces and end results that I'm not always prepared for. I very diligently measured out strips of fabric from three different cotton prints to cut up into squares - part way through I thought let's do triangles to give a bit more interest to the finished quilt. This is where my measuring didn't really add up. I wanted the quilt to be small person sized, so was going for rough dimensions of 40x40 inches. Working on four rows of 10"x10" squares that I then folded in half to cut down. Mu...
