Another post? Procrastination must be the answer

Yes, I have a job application to write so of course I'm visiting some of my favourit blogs and dreaming about fabric. I now have an enourmous pile of things to iron included the just washed batch from yesterday. I'm so glad that I bought some of the West Hill, the individual ponies have so much personality & I love the pink floral almost as much. I didn't have the patience to wait until it was washed and have already hacked out a little patch of ponies & made a couple of 1 1/4" hexes. Amazing considering I'm normally the "I can't cut this, what if I need it for something better later" type. I've also made some hexes to go on the back of my Mendocino coin quilt.



That's them before the were sewn together. I also have a hex flower in the lighter colours used for the coins as well. I'm using 16 fabrics altogether.



Sadly, these photos make everything looks so dark! Sorry. It really is bright & vibrant. I have some Kona cotton in berry for the sashing and the final colour not shown in the photo is underwater sisters in plum. It's time to finally get going - if I get this jo I'll be part time and will have plenty of time for quilting & isn't that what all good career decisions are based on!

Happy wash day

Well turns out that I'm as sporadic about blogging as I am about eveything else! Am having a lovely day off despite being too tired & listless to settle down to anything having had 6 hours sleep (thank you kitties, who wouldn't want to wake up at 6.15am on a day off?). It's a mixed day - I'm very frustrated with my sewing machine, I just can NOT get the tension set. I've given it a proper clean and fresh oil but I think it has to go to the repairers to get looked at. No sewing up my Mendocino coins which are all cut up & ready to go. Or even a new iPod cover since I spilt coffee on the old one this week giving me an excuse to retire it & its dodgy beginners stitching. Come to think of it I had tension issues even then. Satisfying myself with washing new fabrics and catching up on the blogsphere.

On the other hand I'm sooo excited to have stumbled across the new Anna Maria Horner Little Folks fabrics today. They are so delicate and gorgeous. I've loved some of her other designs and have about 9 metres of Good Folks Azalea in plum (I need every single metre I swear!) but a lot of her stuff is just too strong for me to bring home. I love looking at it but couldn't really imagine it at my house if you know what I mean. The new designs are smaller and subtler and I can't wait to buy em all up. I really love that she's included some solids in the mix. I'll probably get lots of the pink (which I think she's calling sweet) but will get some yellows too and if I can afford it (hah!) will try to push myself towards some blues too. It's so easy to just stay with the palette you're comfortable with.

1. qm 62, 2. Kokka/Echino at quilt market, 3. sugar.cookie.pillow, 4. playground.pillow, 5. moonlight.pillow, 6. village path / VAH06 berry, 7. baby bouquet / VAH07 berry, 8. little honey / VAH05 berry, 9. village path / VAH06 sweet, 10. four square / VAH04 sweet, 11. baby bouquet / VAH07 sweet, 12. forest hills / VAH03 sweet, 13. voile solid / VS03 rose pink, 14. four square / VAH04 berry, 15. coloring garden / VAH01 berry, 16. coloring garden / VAH01 citrus, 17. coloring garden / VAH01 sea, 18. diamond mine / VAH02 sky, 19. four square / VAH04 lilac, 20. village path / VAH06 lilac, 21. forest hills / VAH03 sea, 22. baby bouquet / VAH07 dusk, 23. booth.5, 24. booth.2, 25. anna maria's booth 1

Size/quality isn't really doing it justice but I'm pooped! Visit the lovely people above who took the photos for better quality.

I'm also waiting waiting for the new Tanya Whelan Dolce line, so beautiful & I see that there's new Echino (1st couple of tiles above) on the way (back to linen/cotton, not double gauze, yay!) on the way. Do these amazingly talented women not realise that I have bills and am supposed to be saving my money?