Sometimes being the mother of teenagers can be a little, shall we say, stressful (I’m choosing my words very carefully here, as I never know who might be reading this…). This afternoon I decided that my resolution not to start anything new was going to have to go out of the window. I find piecing incredibly peaceful – funny that! I have a penchant for stars and flying geese and between concentrating on them and listening to the Afternoon Play on the radio, there isn’t any space left in my brain for worriting over the latest conflict or the fact that family life resembles a war zone at the moment.

It shows how stressed I was that I jumped right in with the fat quarters from Lumiere de Noel by Moda that I have been dreaming about and drooling over ever since they arrived a couple of months ago. Usually I find fabrics like these just too nice to cut into and can’t quite bear to use them. Not today…

I’m trying out another lovely Carrie Nelson pattern – Opening Day from Miss Rosie’s Spice of Life Quilts. It is all stars and flying geese – so this is total self-indulgence for me.

The fabric is a dream, although as you can see from my slightly wonky start, the weave on the checked fabrics isn’t quite straight – so I’m resigned to having a bit of a homely look here!

The other thing that I’m not quite sure about – which I think happens a lot when you buy and work with fabrics from only one line – is that I’m not sure that I’m going to have enough colour variation. I actually think that it’s going to be a little tricky to get the stars to stand out against the backgrounds as the values are all a bit similar. I’ve already decided to throw in some additional dark browns and deep reds and depending on how the stars come out, who knows, I may do something wacky and rebel a little and do something different.

I’m playing this one by ear and winging it … a bit like my life at the moment…

Helen

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