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It's been a funny old day.  The morning was really productive.  I've now made enough blocks to make a decent sized scrappy quilt, and sewed all the squares together.  It's not bed-sized, but a generous lap sized quilt, and it certainly doesn't lack colour!  It'll join the queue to have wadding, backing material and binding added.  I've got scrappy blocks to spare, so might either make up a cushion cover with them, or maybe in the long run another quilt?  
I've also been making a quilt for a last-minute birthday present, and decided to use of some of the Terry Rowland style Colourwash blocks I'd been amassing.  Mainly blues.  It's easy to assemble, but involves an awful lot of pins to ensure the seams of the blocks line up neatly.  



I like the pops of colour from the plain centres.  

This quilt will probably have to take priority if I'm to complete it in time for the birthday surprise it's meant to be.  

After a morning's concentrated sewing I took a walk this afternoon, nipping into a few charity shops on the way.  I'd seen a craft blog recently where someone made beautiful cushions from men's ties, so I snaffled a couple of those, 100% silk.  Let's see how tricky or otherwise it'll be to unpick those.  Hopefully I'll find a few more in my second-hand rummagings over the next few weeks.  I've got a theory that pretty much everything you need or want turns up in a charity shop sooner or later.  Haven't you found that to be true?

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