Finished...at last

Thought I'd forgotten about this quilt? Well the binding took a little longer than expected. However one wet Saturday arvo later and it's finished.

I love how the colours turned out, a little brighter than my usual choices. The pattern is from Chasing Cottons and although I love the pattern I was disappointed to see it released in a patchwork mag just weeks after I had bought it from their site. Their other pattern I also love came out in the very next issue I'm just glad I didn't purchase that one too. Thats my whinge for the week, but I'm really happy with the way it turned out as I haven't done a lot of curved piecing and the pattern was easy to follow.
Cheers
Michelle

...and a Happy New Year

Well there was a longer than epected gap between the last two posts but I'm here now and I have an update on the UFO list, nothing too earth shattering but, I have one quilt top from the list put together and it's backing has been bought, washed and is hanging on the line as I write! I hope to get it on the quilting frame tonight.

This is Curlique and I started it back around October to practice my curved piecing and I got about half way through it and had to start some samples for patterns and never got back to it. Funny thing was I had it all out on the floor ready to piece in odd moments when I had some spare time and Dustin my lovely robot vacuum was on in Jordan's room up the other end of the house, with the door shut and he escaped and ran right through the middle of all the pieces! I had to rescue some from inside the vac and some he'd managed to get wedged in the brushes and lay it all out again. I had it nearly all  laid out but I couldn't get the last row to fit, for three hours I puzzled and moved and tried every combination, gave up and went to hang out the washing, figuring I'd just make it smaller and chuck the extra bits, when it suddenly hit me that I laid it on the floor because all the edges kept falling off the table..... at both ends. I had been trying to fit the last row to the wrong end Duh! Funny how quick it was to slot them all into place after that, and then I took a photo in case it happened again. By the way this pattern is by Rebecca from Chasing Cottons and is out in the latest Aust.Patchwork and Quilting.

Hope your UFO's aren't getting swallowed!