Advice for Vicki?

Vicki has had a super productive Easter weekend working on her quilt that she bought fabric for last week and has cut out and sewn up 100 half square triangles. Now I can share with you her planned layout. She is going to have 5 zigzags each in a different colour going across the bed:

Around this panel she wants to have a thin border of a colour/print and then a wide border of plain white to bring the quilt to queen size (the zig-zag panel is about 1.5m across I think)

She now has some important decisions to make (which might affect each other). The first is what order to put the zigzags in, and the second is what colour to make the coloured border.

(just to remind you what the fabrics look like with slightly more colour accuracy)

So what would you do? What order would you put the colours and what kind of coloured border would you use?

When there's a sale...

There's a 25% off sale on at GJs at the moment (until the 20th), so I took the opportunity to get the fabric for my pin cushion for the current MMQG swap:

I can't tell you anymore at the moment as I want it to be a surprise, but I know exactly what I'm going to do and I'm going to work on it over the Easter weekend so it's ready  before the 1st of May deadline. I hope my partner likes it.

I went up to GJs with Vicki, who has been scheming up her first full sized quilt - she's going for a queen sized quilt! She's come up with her design, which is going to be amazing and now she has these gorgeous fabrics. 10 pastel-y prints and white... you just know it's going to be fantastic when it's made up!

I wish I'd taken some photos of the huge stack of fabrics that she picked out as possibles before narrowing down to this 10. There's no need to worry that you won't find what you're looking for, there's so may beautiful fabrics. The ladies at GJs are so nice and friendly and didn't seem to mind at all having to put them all back for us, so thanks so much ladies for your patience and advice!

Piecing Vicariously

After vicarious fabric shopping last week Vicki joined us for a couple of hours at the MMQG sit and sew day on Saturday morning to cut out her fabrics. Some sewing alone yielded one quilt top:



And a sewing date with me produced the second:



Aren't they super cute!!

Living Vicariously

My friend Vicki got a sewing maching for Christmas and I have been helping her in learning to sew. So far she's made a dress, but I have also converted her to the dark side and persuaded her that quilting is awesome. So yesterday we went fabric shopping at GJs, which is always HEAPs of fun. Vicki has decided to jump in with both feet, and has bought fabrics for not one, but two quilts, one for a little boy and one for a baby girl. Look at the gorgeous fabrics she chose:

(Along the top will be the binding, and the bottom right one is a flannelette for the backing)

(again, along the top is the binding and the bottom right is a flannelette for the backing)

Fabric shopping for other people is just as much fun as shopping for yourself - you have the down side of not getting to keep the fabric, but you get the up side of not spending any money.

I've even persuaded Vicki to come along to the MMQG Sit and Sew Day for a few hours today so she can get started. Fun times!