Spanish takes over

I have two patchwork cushion covers, completed, just waiting for the backs and the machine sewing that will convert them into cushion covers, but the additional Spanish class and all it's attending homework has meant very little progress on the sewing front.

I have made a rag doll, she is awaiting, hair and clothes, so there is much to do. There is an almost completed pair of palazzo pants wanting a zip and hand sewing.   I also need to make some new necklaces for a craft fair I am doing early December.  So lots to do, but not a lot of time to fit it all into to.

35 years later

I discovered a patchwork cot cover that I made for my first daughter (now 34) it was made out of material l had used in dress making. Those were the days when making clothes could save you money (before Primark and New Look!).  I had never quilted the flowers made from lots of hexagonal pieces. Instead the patchwork cover had been sewn to a warm flanelette sheet in a turquoise colour.   I bought my first piece of backing material and started to quilt into the design.  It is almost finished.  I love hand sewing, it is so soothing.  Soon I will have a completed cot quilt.  I am hoping that my daughter, recently married will give birth to a grandchild (this is a hypothetical grandchild) and my cot quilt can take it's place on the bed of a second generation.  This time it willl bea  patchwork quilt rather than a patchwork cover.