Blankies...

I am sitting here at the pooter eating my Sunday dinner,Gypsy toast,for anyone interested,how good is that,whatever I fancy I can have,no having to produce a huge meal for a herd of squabbling offspring,oh life is so tough  :-)
I have spent the day working on the hippy-trippy blanket for middling daughters winter solstice gift,I was giving myself a headache with all those busy colours,so I have taken a break and been looking on-line for any ideas for youngest daughters pressie.She has requested a memory blanket,basically a quilt with memories of childhood on,so being a pauper or near as damn it,I have to do this on a tight budget.The plan is thus,instead of mega-money batting it will be stuffed with a soft fluffy blankie as the batting,lets be honest with today's quilts the blankie will be just ornamental anyway,I will cut out and stitch to it lots of silhouettes of kids and a dog,assorted cats and birds and chickens throw in the odd flower and apple and it should be done,I have found a really good tutorial for bias binding,which if made to the right size will be fine for quilt edging,along with that lot I am also making youngest a couple of tabards, to wear when she starts her new nannying job,from some lovely vintage looking teddy bear fabric,ideal as the kids are both under a year and a half.

So........more work to do.