A while back I (think I) blogged about spending a very crafty weekend with my little sister, incorporating spinning, hand-piecing and beading into about 48hrs of crafty fun. Well it seems that it has had a slightly longer term impact than originally anticipated, namely I seem to have added quilting to my list of burgeoning skills.
With the imminent birth of a good friend of my DH's first child I oddly thought it would be faster and cheaper to stitch a baby blanket than to knit something. Wrong on both accounts but I am considerably less worried about the finished article being trashed in the wash so it is still a win in my book. I didn't think this was bad for a first attempt, took probably about as long in total to make as a good sized baby cardigan type thing, and probably cost in the region of £30-40 by the time it was finished.
Now the mistake I made the second time round was to utterly underestimate the cost of these things! The one above had used a lot of fat quarters for the tiny squares, and it turns out that the yellow polka dot which it is backed in is one of the cheaper fabrics that this store carries. Cue one heck of a shock when buying stuff for a second blanket that a) couldn't be done in FQs and b) featured very large amounts of the 'designer' fabrics. I almost fell over when I found out what I'd just asked to be cut. PUBLIC SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT: check the cost before they start cutting!!!!! Anyway life being what it is, I've now been pulled off the expensive blanket project (which if I'm honest has yet to make it to the cutting stage... baby is much more distantly related, someone I get on with at work but don't have that much to do with etc) by my darling DH dropping into conversation that another set of good friends are moving back to the UK from places hot and sunny, and wouldn't it be nice to give their newborn a blanket to help her acclimatise to the rather cooler climes of the UK. Sure I agreed, when are they due back? Two weeks.......
Oh heck!
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