Ta....Da!

Hello

♥

Before I reveal my Ta Da

I just wanted to show you the gorgeous flowers

that Mr Sweet, my lovely hubby

gave me for our 21st wedding anniversary

Aren't they beautiful?

neither of us can believe we have been married for that long

TWENTY ONE YEARS

flipping heck.
Happy anniversary my lovely man
thank you for putting up with me
♥

Well are you ready for it?
I am so excited...

my first EVER quilt Ta Da!

my 'flower patch' quilt
for chilling in the garden

 

I have to say that I absolutely adore it, every single pretty square of it

The evening that I actually finished it I was super over-excited

I could tell that my guys had had enough of me

I laid it out on the carpet, the bed, the sofa

I laid it out in Sweet B’s room, lovely G’s room

Me .....

”isn’t it beautiful? 

“isn’t it the prettiest quilt you ever did see?”

“which patch do you like best?”

“I like this one and this one and this one and this one and this one and…”

“did you realise that I even made the binding?”

yes I can clearly see now that I was mighty annoying

but I really do ADORE it

I had breakfast in the garden on it the very next morning
it made me so happy

it isn’t perfect, there are lots of mistakes

and lots of corners that don’t meet

but I am proud to have made my very first quilt

would you like to know some stats?

It has 154 squares
for which I used pre-cut Tilda fabric patches
 I LOVE mix and match so I got one of each of their sets
sewing bird
garden party
Christmas
winterbird
and the gorgeous backing fabric is also Tilda from the garden party range
and is called flower patch in blue

It measures 165 cm x 210 cm

Before I started I read lots on the internet

but mostly I followed instructions in Alicia Paulson's book
Stitched in time
there is a baby clothes quilt project in there

her instructions are so clear

which made it simples.

Oh my I LOVE that lady for so many reasons

and her blog is inspirational and Oh so beautiful

When it came to tying the squares

I couldn't figure out how to find the centre of each square

without having to measure and make marks

and then Sweet B came up with this genius idea

(it could be that everyone else does this 
or that there is some other way of doing it)

she made me a paper square the same size as my patches

with a little hole in the centre

all I did was lay it over each patch and stitch through the hole
in, out and tie

 easy peasy lemon squeezy

you can read more about my first quilt adventure here, here & here

that's if I haven't already bored you to death!

Just a quick little thing before I go

the lovely Nina left me a very kind comment on my last post

suggesting that I enter one of my photos into the
Sarah Raven photo competition

thank you Nina…I plucked up the courage and did it!

I don’t think I stand a chance to be honest

the standard of the photos is immense 

 here is my entry photo

A BIG "Hello" to all of my new followers
It is lovely to welcome you here
x
and as always ..... thank YOU for visiting
and for all your sweet comments on my last jammy post
you are the best

Wishing you a super dooper weekend

BIG love 

j x