I did it! It’s finally finished! A zillion hourglass blocks later and the borders are done and the whole top is ironed and ready to be mailed to be England to be quilted. I just need to finalize the details and then off it will go – at the moment I’m thinking to be quilted with an overall feather pattern. What do you think?

I’m very, very pleased with the result. Carrie Nelson did a great job with the pattern. She is such a fantastic pattern designer and it’s a really great scrap quilt. So if you haven’t already bought it, make sure you put Miss Rosie’s Spice of Life Quilts by Carrie on your shopping list!

I know I have used up masses and masses of smallish stash pieces, many of which have been waiting 20 years for this moment! I’m still wallowing in the wonderfully virtuous feeling of having worked almost entirely from the stash and I even think the stash looks very slightly less now. It must, it really must, even if it’s a little difficult to tell the difference!

Now I’m off to try to find some more circular knitting needles so that I can get the cardigan I’m working on finished. That could prove tricky – I have a feeling the knitting shops locally are closed on Mondays, but I’ll take my chances and see what I can find. Watch this space!

Helen

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