Ages and ages ago, I bought a baby quilt kit to make for a friend who was about to adopt, at the point at which there seemed to be some last minute complications... sort of a gesture of faith that it would all work out. I fell in love with the fabric, but whenever I went to look for quilt kits I never found anything I liked nearly as much.
And then Arjan found the fabric panel which had been used to make up the main part of the quilt kit on Etsy, because someone in America was clearing out her fabric stash. It was called "A's, Bees and Dandelion Seeds" by Red Rooster.
Cutting up the panel was very daunting, as I was aware that I had no hope of getting a replacement piece, but eventually I summed up the courage. The brown fabric on the edges was used as separators, just as in the original kit, with the corner squares being used as well.
And so the sewing (in anally retentive backstitch) began!
Once the main nine alphabet squares were all sewn together, the next issue raised itself - I didn't have any fabric to make the edges of the quilt, between the corner squares. Some more internet browsing later, and I found someone selling some last pieces of fabric from the same range and bought one for the edges, and a plainer fabric for the back.
In the original kit, the flowers had been used for the edges, but they had been blue, and the only version of the fabric I could find had been with peach flowers, which I didn't like as much. However, it also came with alphabet edging, which was amazing - even if it would take more fiddly cutting and sewing to make it work.
The patchwork is now complete, which leaves me with the next step, which I'm not so fond of doing - the quilting itself.
The procrastination has begun already...
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