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The last of the binding has been attached and I finally get to call this improv quilt finished.  It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but making it taught me a lot about making curves in patchwork, and about applique.  Also, about being brave / reckless and being prepared to do something drastic if a quilt just isn't 'working'.  In this case I literally chopped the thing up and rearranged it as I wasn't satisfied with how I'd put it together.  Rearranging the pieces left me with a smaller quilt than I'd originally planned, but a better quilt, for all its faults.   The material I chose for the backing fabric was a wee bit too small, so had to be patched up to make it fit. The extra section in a similar grey isn't so noticeable, but the bright green is!  I like the randomness of adding that little square.   When I wasn't occupied with sewing I managed an hour on the allotment, collecting raspberries and deadheading the calendula,...

Sunday has rolled around again.  A sunny June day, bees buzzing like crazy around the purple flowering sage in the front garden, popping in and out of foxglove bells, intent on finding food and paying me no attention.  I caught up on The Archers omnibus this morning - I was distinctly underwhelmed by the storyline about Jim's missing glasses.  Yup, he'd lost his specs, hold the front page! - then a mooch down to the allotment to admire the rapidly ripening strawberries.   The afternoon was fairly aimless, a botched attempt at making a bag, I hadn't thought it through properly, and another chapter of the Alice Hoffman book.  This evening will be sewing and telly, and I probably won't shift far off the sofa.  If you're wondering about the photo above, I was browsing on Instagram and came across a post from amandanadigart.  She'd cut out squares of plain fabric, then sewn on two randomly shaped scraps.  As she wrote:   ' Stitch a shape...