Spring Fling

Well, I started the day with very good intentions, I had planned to work on my journal quilt and to do a block for my Dear Jane block swap with Cathi, and even got so far as to print out the block I am going to do for that swap, but when I got up to my sewing room, the butterfly centre for the Spring Fling Round Robin just kept calling my name. And who am I to argue with fabric when it tells me stuff? Remember, that's my watchword for the year (and beyond) - "listen".

Anyway, for the last few days, the butterfly has been telling me it wanted flying geese, so today I decided to do some free form, curvy geese in strips and apply them. I decided that 2.5" wasn't really a wide enough border to do anything much with, so I have set the centre block off-centre. The fabric which looks blue in the photo is actually quite purple, but the photo doesn't really show it well - I find it's hard to photograph purple things. Anyway, after some thought and a bit of discussion with the butterfly, this is where we stand. I think it works fairly well, though goodness knows how the next person will cope with it! The orange fabric is what was passed to me, and I have used quite a lot of it - I will send the rest on, along with the teal blue fabric. I've used virtually every scrap of the purple I own, so I can't send that (it's the same fabric as the inside of the pencil roll, actually - I think the colour is better in that photo). And perhaps there's enough purple there anyway.



As for the journal quilt, I will do it tomorrow morning. The Dear Jane block can either get done tomorrow or move to next week - luckily, it doesn't have a firm deadline... And as I was going to put the Spring Fling Round Robin on next week's list, I kind of feel like I'm ahead of myself. (Yeah, right!)