Sneaking In The Back Door!!

We're still experiencing technical difficulties here at the Meares' Madhouse. My Beloved Geek Boy is madly working on the problem (in between his 'day job'!!) and there's been quite a lot of muttering under his breath and hair-pulling ... not to mention the wife grumbling about having her email interrupted! :0) He HAS set up a way for me to READ my email now ... replying is just a bit trickier, so if you're emailing me ... please be patient ... I'm not ignoring you ... I promise! :0) (RoseMarie ... I got your email with snail mail ... will pop something in the mail for you next week! :0) )

So ... in amongst the tech-related grumbling ... I worked out a way that I CAN share some pics with you of the "Play" quilt I've been working on. I just plugged my phone DIRECTLY into the laptop to transfer the pics ... well DAH!! Why didn't I think of that earlier?!?!?! Ah well ... better late than never! :0) So I'll now sneak in the computer's 'back door' to show you what I've been up to.

Despite the fact that it is NOT my usual style ... I fell in love with this pretty, old-fashioned, shabby-chic inspiring fabric over a year ago. I didn't know what I was going to do with it ... but I HAD to have some! :0)  After getting it home, I put it into the cupboard and forgot about it for a year!! EEK! Poor fabric! :0) So on the weekend when I decided to just "PLAY" in my sewing room ... I brought it into the light of day and auditioned a few fabrics to go with it. Hmmm ... OK ... ideas flowing! :0) A bit of measuring and chopping ...

... I got my trusty Husky humming ...

The toile doona cover underneath is a bit distracting, but the quilt so far ends with the pink and blue checker-board  border. When I was playing with that checker-board border, I thought it needed a little splash of strong colour to act as a frame. I originally thought I'd pop in a peeper border, but after a dig around in my stash ... I found enough of the darker olive-y green giant rick-rack that perfectly matched the darker shades of green on the leaves. WOO! HOO! In fact ... the blue and pink spot fabrics were ALSO already in my stash (I know ... pink for me! Who'd have thunk it! I think I shall have to call it 'rose'!! :0) ) Don't you love it when you can use bits from your stash that were bought at different times and not originally intended to go together, to compliment each other to create something special?! :0)

Here's a closer look at the lovely big roses. Actually ... the colours are better represented here, too. I'm toying with whether to put a lighter, softer green outer border on, or whether to go with the same stronger olive-y green. I'm leaning towards the darker green at the moment ... which I also have in my stash already ... even though it's a different direction than I intended to take.  What do you think??? That's one of the fun parts of playing with fabric and new designs ... you never know if the finished quilt will look like your first thoughts. :0)

Okey doke ... that's it from me for today ... just wanted to let you all know that the computer hasn't sucked me in and stored me in the hard drive (although I suspect it IS plotting to take over the known universe and those annoying pop-up error messages are just a way to distract us while it plots our overthrow in the background!! Tee! Hee! Hee!) Hope all of you are having a wonderful week so far. I'm off to play Polly and find my woolly socks ... temps dropping to around zero for the second night in a row ... BRRRRRR!!! Roll on summer! :0) Til next time ...

BRRRRRRRRRRR BEAR HUGS!!!!

CHEERS!
KRIS