Yesterday my car went into the garage for a service. Normally I would collect it later in the day but I had my follow up appointment with the plastic surgeon following my breast reconstruction in March. It has all healed really well and I am very happy with the result. The surgeon was happy and has put me on the waiting list for creation of the nipple. It's taken a while to get to this point since I had my mastectomy in 2017 but it has been worth the wait.
This morning was rather busy. I took the dogs out for their morning walk at 7:30. I had a podiatry appointment at 8:30 and then I had to go and collect my car. We decided to do a little shopping on the way home and also to get morning coffee and cake. Once home again I had the afternoon to do some sewing.
I need to make a start on my Chookshed challenge for August. My challenge was to start the Garden quilt as this was to be a gift but I had also decided I wanted to make a Christmas quilt. The Garden quilt was originally being made for an friend but they have decided there is another quilt they would like instead. However, if possible, they would like me to make a smaller sized quilt based on the pattern for their grandchild who loves to 'help' in the garden. This is the pattern I was going to make, and it finishes at 72 x 92inches, too big for a young child.
So last evening I had spent some time doing the maths to scale the quilt down for a child. I gave myself a headache with the maths but came up with a workable pattern. This afternoon I spent some time going through my fabric and enjoying stroking it. I pulled some fabrics to use as the seed packets. In my experience young children love the idea of planting seeds and watching them grow so this row had to be included. I also found some suitable fabric for the carrots, beetroot and cabbages.
I also think I can use these these gardening themed fabrics.
The more I thought about making a child's garden quilt the more fun I thought it would be. I had to look in my stash for some background fabric and then I would be ready to start cutting the blocks.
Before starting making the seed blocks, I decided I would go through the Christmas fabrics for the second quilt I wanted to start. A while back I made this Christmas quilt from a pattern by Phoebe Moon Designs. I really like this quilt.
