Pretty in pink

So over the short year or so that I have been making quilts I have seen a lot with hand stitched panels included in them, and I just love the effect of so many of these.  So one afternoon while my boys were napping I jumped on the wonderful You Tube and learnt how to do back stitch, by the way it is one of the most simplest things to do ever. So grabbing my wash off fabric marker and some plain fabric I was back on the internet again, this time to google images to find a nice line drawing that I could trace with the use of my computer screen as a light box.  

Once I had completed the first panel I had the bug, much to husbands amusement I sat there at night watching tv and stitching away.  After I had completed several blocks, I still had no idea what I was going to do with these rather pretty blocks, so away they went into my draw of "the un-finished" to await inspiration.   

And sure enough several weeks later when looking through the draw and thus over these lovely stitched blocks, I thought of a Great Aunt, who in many ways is a Nana to me.  Now when you think of this Aunt, you think pretty pinks, floral lounge suites and embroidered table cloths.  And so I started to grow my collection of pretty floral fabrics, and over the winter while I like so many other mums out there spent days snuggled up on the couch watching toy story on repeat with sick toddlers continued to stitch.  And before long this quilt was really coming along.  

Now normal I get more excited about the more modern fabrics, but these pretty vintage floral's, and the soft blue have really done something to me.  And mixed with another quilt Im working on at the moment, I gotta say I am really getting inspired by these more vintage prints.  I think that's the real beauty of making quilts for others, by thinking of what fabric best suits that individual and there tastes and preferences it pushes you out of your normal zone and creates a hole other passion for fabric. 

Finished off with another very pretty floral boarder fabric and my first attempt at mitered corners I think it is just beautiful, and almost just wanna keep it for myself .