Scrappy Delight♡

 

Hello lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡ A little Sunday love to you♡ 'Tis early Sunday evening, and after a little slow stitching was enjoyed this morning, whereafter a pleasant day ensued, I'm now sitting in the parlour soaking up the Christmas ambience. It's peaceful in here. All is bright and a-glowing with candles.

This week I stitched a dolly quilt, mattress and a pillow, for a wicker pram which Pete and I bought sweet Riley for Christmas. It's a pram designed by an Australian company, Olli and Ella which is owned by two sisters. There are so, so many pretties in this shop to delight a child......and a granny. =) Riley has a few dollies she loves to play with so when she is not pushing her dollies in the pram, the pram will be a fabulous (and pretty) way to corrale her dollies. 

I stitched the wee quilt using strips of pretty fabrics in my stash and for the backing, a scrappy, pinwheel fabric was used. Just strips with oodles of flowery patterns and happy colour dancing across the width. I machine quilted flowers here and there and this morning I stitched the binding. The mattress was again made from fabrics in my armoire. To make the mattress thick and puffy and soft as a feather, which any dolly would love to sink into, I doubled a thick polyester batting. I stitched a little pillow and a pillow case for dolly to rest her weary head.

My daughter did say......."don't go to too much trouble Ma............". Well, we can't have a boring and plebeian dolly's pram complete with all the fancies,  now.......can we??

This week I started two new English paper piecing pretties........just because I can. =) A hexie lap quilt dancing allover in Liberty prints and a Trip Around The World quilt, dancing in colourful squares.

The Liberty pretty is for my daughter's birthday in August next year, so there's no rush to finish. As I still have a few more fabrics to purchase, not a stitch has been stitched. At this stage I've just been playing; covering hexies in Liberty gorgeousness.

The second EPP pretty is for me. A Trip Around The World where little squares of lovely pattern and colour will promenade around and around dancing a merry jig. It would of course be a lot quicker if I were to machine piece this quilt but as I'm not in the mood to accurately match little two inch squares ad nauseum on the machine, I'm going to hand stitch. Crazy?? Perhaps. But then I love, love, love to stitch by hand. After all, 'tis summer here (well.... at least the calender tells me so) and long, lazy days of gentle and mindful stitching, in some secret corner of the garden, sounds rather relaxing to me. "And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles." Francess Burnett Hodgson Ahh yes......so, so many miracles to be seen in the garden each new morning♡

The Christmas tree is twinkling, the candles are a-glowing and I think I'll enjoy a little promenading, a little world trippin' with colourful squares. Yes indeedy, as the sunshine beams upon the Christmas tree, a little slow stitching will be enjoyed by moi. From my Christmassy Home Sweet Home to yours, have a beautiful day, lovely lovelies, lovely friends♡ May sprinkles of joy find you♡ Sprinkles of sunlit joy are ricocheting here♡

Until the next time......