Well with that gushy title there can only follow a post about one thing.....Sweet William. Click away now if you feel you cannot handle the barage of photos of my dearest. this is the last block that was finished on Wednesday afternoon. Below the blocks are all trimmed and ready to sew together. Maisie is just doing a last minute scan to make sure it's ok to proceed.. And huge drum roll please...My version of Sweet William by Susan Smith.... I made 18 appliques from the pattern and improvised the other 7 by using designs found on the net and other patterns I had at home. I picked out the fabric for the alternate blocks Wednesday with some help from Liz (the village quilters) who was up for a visit. I probably wouldn't have bought the fabrics so soon had she not wanted to visit Jemima's. I thought may as well take the blocks with me to get some help with selecting possible colours. The beautiful apricot colour used for the outer triangles was the first to jump out at me and the yellow was the last. We auditioned about 6 fabrics with Veronica and when these were together it was love at first sight. Absolutely meant to be. Quite by accident as things often are as I couldn't decide between the two fabrics and had to have them both. Finished size is approxiamately 150 cm square. A little smaller than the pattern but will be more than big enough for my purposes. I hope to hand quilt this lovely in the future. Here is the whole top. I couldn't resist this photo of the back in the sunshine.. I love the stained glass effect. Well that is that. A project that almost wasn't to be, has become a completed top. It was commenced in September 2014 but was restarted in January 2015. Of course thanks to Elyte for turning on the light bulb, the pattern will be happily going to live at her place whenever she is ready. That's the least I could do. I'd best leave this post at this stage of the photo overload I am over the moon to have finished this top. There is some progress on some other projects but they can wait till next post. you bet I'm happy dancing Marina
