I broke my cardinal rule.

Through all my crafting years I have always kept multiple projects.... 3-4 sewing, 2-3 knitting etc...

BUT.. always only 1 quilt ALWAYS, I have always stuck to this rule, for 12 years of quilting, untill now...

Firstly is my 'Tropical Cycone' quilt which is sitting shamefully in the cupboard. I am not sharing another pic of that till its done!

Secondly.. I have always wanted to do a Desden plate quilt, very much not my usual style, I am definately not a traditional quilter, so I felt doing such an old, mature pattern, required 'older', more sophisticated fabrics then I would usually use. Ihave collected these fabrics over the last few months.

I am working slowly on this, its more the secondry project atm, something for me to refresh myself with when i get bored with the bold, yet chucky simplicity of the next preject.

This quilt will go on our bed, I have NEVER had a quilt for my own bed before, hmmmm....

Thirdly.. Bryns quilt for his 'big boy' bed going in his 'big boy' room. I really want to get this finished asap, cos we are starting his new room in the upcoming weeks, and I want this quilt ready to go straight onto it.

its made with a charm pack and jelly roll, from matching collections, and will also have bright contrasting hand dyes,

above is the pic (albeit sideways, how do you fix that in blogger) of some of the prints matched with thier hand dyes.

and above is the first few blocks, these are big block they will be 12iches square finished, I am not used to working with such large blocks...

I am thinking I will use thinnish (1 inch maybe) black sashing between the blocks with corner stones from the left over hand dyed,

there will be 40 blocks all up, so as long as i am happy with them all, I will probably make the quilt with 6 X 6 blocks in the body, then a black border and a block in each corner of the border as a corner stone there.... and i would love to do something diferent for the binding this time too.. thinking maybe some lil triangles all the way around, then i can get a theme going and make some bunting to go on the curtains or something..... ohh I will make it up as I go.. tis my way...