Friday 6th February - Rainbows!

 There was one, honest, for about 5 minutes in a short break in the otherwise endless rain today. What a gift.

I can post my final 2By2 stitch now, since I know Ang received it yesterday.

I've sent Ang the right hand one, obviously! I was so excited when I had the idea of doing a nine-patch quilt that I got going straight away. I've recently read 'The House of Silence' by Linda Gillard, and quilts are a feature of the story. One of the unmarried sisters living at a vast, decaying mansion on the bleak East Anglian fens makes endless quilts, including a postage stamp quilt, double bed sized. Imagine it... each patch is the size of an old-fashioned postage stamp.

The advantage is that you only need very small scraps of fabrics, and squares are so much easier to paper piece than hexagons.

I've ysed all the fabrics in previous collaborations except for the 'joy' patch. 

Reading left to right, starting at the top;

A recent Christmas choice, a postage stamp print to represent trips to the post box, some Japanese style flowers, 

Another Japanese flower, 'joy' from a Christmas print, which is what these collaborations mean to mem and a batik print from the last collaboration 

Time spent on the collaborations (a print sent to me by Ang), a Christmas print which I used as the basis for 'Spring' last time, and a print with writing to represent our correspondence. 

I pieced the first patch over felt squares which I've left in. It came out rather wonky! The second one is done the traditional way, except I've used thin card instead of paper. 

Ang and I have started arranging and stitching them. This is where I've got to;

I'm ending with another rainbow, from Ang's 'Noah's Ark piece;