It's just a matter of building up the momentum, I think...

Today, I sucked it up and made one of the backings I've been putting off for a month or so.

This is the front of Modern Grace (it's the name of the fabric range and I can't think of a better one) which is number 19 in the list to your top right and was generally known as the Blue and Brown Square quilt or the Stitch and Knit Quilt (where I bought the fabrics from) It's about 120cm square, so it's a bit bigger than the ones I've been concentrating on lately, but it's still a very manageable size.

I got a half metre each of the two brown and cream fabrics and a fat quarter of the one that's in the top left corner, and the rest is scraps left over from the front. It was only basted when I took the photos but it's been quilted since, and the binding is cut ready to go tomorrow.

I also got the photos of the recent finishes taken out in the yard today, but since there was a guy on the roof putting up the new TV antennas, I went to the far side of the block instead of doing them in the backyard. The grass out there is a bit more unruly though, so what looks like really wonky piecing is actually just lumps and bumps of longer grass under the quilts.

The more I look at it, the more GoogleEarth has become one of my favourites. The richness of the colours and the wavy/straight quilting lines make it look so... I don't even know the word. But it makes me think of sitting inside watching the rain wiggle it's way down the windows with the greens of the trees and the grass behind it, and it makes me want to eat my vegetables, and it makes me want to snuggle under it and be warm and indulgent and all that really nice stuff. It's like the world outside at this time of year - starting to warm up but still green and damp and lush from the rains of winter and spring.

I love the lines of quilting on the back, going in different angles. When I was shopping for the binding I found some fabric that is a print of slices of citrus, and if I'd seen it earlier I would have loved to use it for the back, but even though the print was too big for the binding, I bought half a metre anyway. I think I'll make it a matching bag.

I decided to call it Sweet Sacks, since it's all reproduction 30's feedsack fabric, and none of you liked the name Blandybland. You can't really see it, but I gave this a pale yellow striped binding just because I knew it would annoy Helen. I can't help myself sometimes. I would love to make an all yellow quilt one day, just to watch her hating it.

I've randomly decided to go with the name Shallow Water for this one - I think the colours are more like the sky than water, except for the brown which isn't sky-like at all, but does remind me of the sand and the rocks down at Woolwash creek.

I really need to get myself geared toward more little things for the market next weekend, but instead I find myself wanting to make bigger quilts instead. I'll see how I feel after I've had to bind this big(ish) one tomorrow - that might put me off it.

I would kill for some mint choc chip...

I kinda had a really big day.

I didn't go to the pageant, cause frankly, we all know it's gunna be shit, so what's the point?

Instead I decided to get stuck into stuff. Instead of putting on TV (cause the thing about Chuck, and why I've been so into it lately, is that it's very arc-y. Not as bad as, say, 24, but at least on par with Alias. You need to pay attention to that stuff, and you can't while you're sewing) so I got my funky little TV box thingy to play music really loud. Everyone else was wasting their morning in at the pageant so they couldn't complain about my terrible taste. Suckers.

So, and please hold your applause, today I did two quilt tops. And then I made a back. And then I basted it to a top and some batting. And then I basted the other one to some batting and a piece of backing fabric that was slightly too small, but will do. And then I quilted the first one.

Well, I quilted half of it. And then I turned into a weepy crying mess, because Mum came in.

But backstory is needed at this point. A previously on, if you will. I love my car. My car is old. My car is buggered. I need a new car. I still love my car.

Dad bought the Swift out today, so I took it for a couple of drives. It's really nice. It's brakes are touchy, it needs a wheel alignment and it gets caught quite badly by the wind, but I'm gunna keep her. She's beautiful, she goes like stink for a tiny thing and she's really nice inside. But I need to get rid of my beloved BJ. A two year old Swift is not cheap. And even though a 15 year old mondeo that runs like crap isn't worth much, I need to let him go. In spite of everything. In spite of all we've done together. In spite of the fact that he's been everywhere with me for the last 4 years, it's time for me to let him go. 

Tonight Mum came and said we would clear him out tomorrow so that Dad could touch him up before they take him in for a trade in or valuation if Nev at the dealership thinks we can get more going private. So naturally I had myself a cry, just like last time I had to let go of a car. And then I sucked it up and finished my quilting.

Now look at some pretty pictures while I go mope like a pathetic loser.

I've decided to call it Summer Citrus. The differences between the two shades of each colour is more obvious in the real world.

I was originally gunna go with Cuddly Cammo, but I've changed my mind. It looks like GoogleEarth.

The back of Summer Citrus. The dots actually look like blueberries, so it's kindof a whole fruit salad.

It's quilted either side of the straight seams in one direction and next to the wonky seam on one side, and I taped a bit of cardboard onto the foot of my machine to keep the distance level to do another couple of wonky rows.

I'll be hanging with the icecream if anyone wants me.