Baby Quilts

A dear friend of mine had twins.  Over a year ago.  I started to wonder, whether these baby quilts might end up becoming graduation presents.  

I was very taken with Sarah B's Windy Days quilt pattern.  I thought it looked simple and attractive.  I used my own scraps rather than charm squares, and I used a different sized square to her charm squares.  Let's just say thing spiralled out of control.  I messed up the pattern, but, for me, in a quilt anything goes.  I don't worry about messed up patterns, confused designs or puckers so big they look like design features.

I loved it, but I got it all messed around.  I think it's OK, even with the errors, but I couldn't face making a second one.

So, when I finally finished the first quilt, I decided that a much easier, all right angles coin quilt was the way to go.  It certainly went together quickly.  I think it is just as pretty and just as effective, too.

Much simple to patch together.

Just goes to show that effort doesn't always correlate closely with final results.  Shhh, don't tell my kids!

Meanwhile, I can now think about other sewing.  My house needs some freshening up, and the only thing holding it back is me.  I am too selfish with my sewing time to want to make pillows, curtains, blinds etc.

Perhaps with an easy to sew, easy to wear winter uniform I could manage.  I ordered my first StyleArc pants.   Their Cassie Stretch Woven Pants  won me over.  I can imagine them being comfortable and working well with chunky sweaters and knee boots in Autumn/Winter.  Of course, I tried to put out of my mind, just how difficult my lower body is to fit, and the fact that they will not send a multisized pattern.  This could be an expensive mistake.  Here goes nothing!

Style Arch Cassie Pant