Pink glorious pink

After another trip to Patchwork House- this time to choose sashing, border and backing fabric, it seems the Fancy Free quilt has become quite pink...but that's ok because I'm really loving Pink at the moment!

 *Backing, border, sashing, backing*
All of the fabrics are by Lake House.

 I wasn't sure about using the check as the sashing, its a bit different, but it's only going to be a very thin sashing so I think it will looks really interesting.

If it is possible to be in love with a fabric, then I am in love with this one!
It was the first one we saw when we walked through the door and it ended up being the perfect backing.
Unfortunately we were a bit short as we got the last of the bolt so I'm combining it with the light pink fabric with the dots.

Plus...
I know I have been meaning to put these up for at least a week so here are some sneak peaks of some of my favourite Fancy Free blocks:

 Hope you have had a wonderful week!

Miranda & Charlie

PS. Guess what?...I found a piece of the Miranda fabric and I will tell you all about it soon!

New Fabric!

Here is a picture of the new fabric I bought on Saturday at Patchwork House!

My other two quilts, which I will post about soon, are currently on pause, so I decided to start a new quilt. My mum is eager for me to make the quilt pattern called Fancy Free which is a Moon Shine pattern by Monica Poole. I think she found the pattern at a quilting fair last year and loves it. Plus because it is a "Quilt as you go", it’s relatively simple and pretty fast to make. Which is just what you need when you are short on time but get withdrawal symptoms from a lack of sewing!

The pattern asks for 25 coordinating fat 1/4s ( 25 blocks) or larger pieces for a reversible quilt, but when I got to the shop I realised that 25 fat 1/4s is very expensive and I was struggling to find 25 coordinating fabrics so instead I am just going with 9 fabrics, 9 blocks. It will be smaller but I figure I can make the sashing larger, add a border maybe or if it is going to be really quite small, I can always save up and add more blocks.

So it’s going to be more like an interpretation of the pattern because I'm also doing a couple of other things differently, one day I will follow a pattern!

 The fabrics I chose are similar to the fabrics in the quilt pictured on the pattern because I really liked the combination and I like pinks at the moment and figured it was time to expand my stash too.

I was also hoping to add some more pictures but unfortunately they didn’t turn out very well when I uploaded them, so I'll take some more another time. I absolutely adore the fabrics so I hope you'll enjoy them too :)

Hope you have a great week

Miranda & Charlie