Another one bites the dust.

Yeah, another quilt bites the dust. 

This one is off to my local patchwork group to be added to the 'care quilt' collection.

I have called it ripple effect.

 It was started late last year as a Layer cake quilt - and then it came time to make a layout (arrgh) I ummed and ahhed over design. (The process can be seen here) and then changed my mind again.

I chose a lovely fun binding to finish it off.

 

Now onto the next one.

It is not 10 years old....

..... but getting close!

I have been spending most of my spare time lately working on a UFO quilt - quite a large one, which I had hoped to have finished this month.  However this afternoon I needed a break from it so decided to make something completely different.

 In 2004 (yes, I even dated it down in the right hand corner) one of the members of our Craft Group taught us painting and shading using folk art paints or water colour pencils, and fabric medium, on calico.  She had traced the picture for us and we did the colouring under her direction - I chose to use the paints.  I so enjoyed doing it but wasnt too sure what to do with it.
This month I decided it was time to continue working on it.  I outline stitched the girls, then decided to make a cushion for my little girl Grandie.

 I used some pretty trim that is like little tassels, and striped piping.  (love making and using piping, and it looks so good in diagonal stripes).