Wet spring days in Lincolnshire

 It’s raining again, yesterday it rained all day and tomorrow the forecast is no better! So to cheer you all up I thought I would show you our spring flowers which absolutely love the damp weather. Our garden is best in the spring and primroses, cowslips and bluebells put on their dresses of many colours and spread themselves through the grass. They seed into new places every year, sometimes combining themselves to make something I call a primslip, where a primrose meets a cowslip!

This is my latest make, a generous sized market bag made from cotton fabrics and a foam covered wadding which makes the sides stand up very nicely. The fabric was given to me and it looks like a Kaffe Fassett print, just right for a bag as I couldn’t bear to cut the big fabric design up for a quilt.

So now I’m thinking picnics, sunshine, sandwiches and coffee in the park, so the bag needed a quilt and this delphinium blues one was just right for the photo. The quilt pattern is so simple, a bricks and mortar pattern which I turn to again and again, I love its simple style.

I can’t wait to wear a summer dress. I bought a new one by mail order recently, but am I a strange shape or are dress manufacturers measuring with the wrong tape measure? It is lovely fabric and will be fine when I have taken it up and in and put a zip in the side to give it a better fit! Should one have to do that? I bought a size 12 and it is too big. I haven’t been a size 10 since before my babies so I suppose I should just be pleased!!

That’s the lovely thing about making quilts and bags, generally speaking, they don’t have to fit!

I hope the sun shines for you this week wherever you are living,

Kind regards,

Sue