Day 282/366

I'm having trouble keeping up with life at the moment!  How about you?

But, today is sewing day so here are some butterflies I'm making for my row along quilt which I'm following on Bee In My Bonnet's blog.

I think I'm one row behind?

Anyway, at first I thought this quilt was just  a bit too fiddly for my liking but -  you know what? - it has been great to practise my quarter inch seams.  I think I'm doing them perfectly now.  

Day 254/366

Row One of Bee In My Bonnet Row Along complete!

Linking to 

Day 249/366

Slow progress on my Row Along.

But I guess it's better than no progress.

Tonight, after a day at work, I cut my stitched pairs into half.

Day 248/366

I learnt something today.

Well, two things really.

The first is that I must trust my instinct.

The second is that ironing a poly-cotton fabric with a hot iron will cause it to shrink.

When I chose the purple, lavender and white floral fabric at the top of the above picture, I suspected that it was not one hundred percent cotton.

But I chose to ignore this suspicion and used it for my Row Along patchwork anyway.

So when I hit it with the hot iron it shrank.

I've unpicked it and chosen another fabric.

Day 242/366

I can't help myself.

I've got two weeks to finish row one of 

Bee In My Bonnet Row Along.

But believe it or not, this has spurred me on to get cracking on my Little Sister's birthday quilt which needs to be completed in three weeks.