More Progress

I have managed to do quite a lot of sewing this week and have made good progress with some of my WIPS (read - abandoned projects) which has been really good.

I started this quilt last summer but I was not sure about the design and ground to a halt. I love FMF and wanted to have large sections of the fabric framed however I just wasn't sure about it all and so left it for a while many months. I can now see this is a bit of a habit with me, if I am not happy with the way something is going I start something else. Sometimes this is good because often, after a break, I come back and know what I need to do to fix it. Sometimes this is bad, especially when I get a kind of mental block and just can't face  finishing it. That's what happened with this quilt and I now realise I must keep going and not give up on a project.

I made half the blocks with white sashing around the fabric but it looked rubbish. I should not have stopped because I just needed to do the other half of the blocks to make it look pretty. I'm so pleased with how these blocks look now I can't imagine why it took me so long to finish them.

As usual I have photographed these on my design wall bed. I really must find a better way of doing this. I am so lucky to have a lovely light and bright flat with big windows on both sides of each room but it does limit the wall space - you have got to put the furniture somewhere!

All the blocks are squared up now, look at these pretty scraps, I can't bear to throw them away!