I am already Auntie Brenda to Sasha (nearly 4) and Aden (nearly 1) and another niece or nephew is due out in the big wide world in October. (October, it seems, is birthday month for the youngest generation in my family.) My sister announced the baby’s forthcoming arrival with a declaration that we needed to go quilt fabric shopping and recently we did just that. The shopping and design brief was clear – lots of bright colours and no animal novelty prints lest the baby or, more likely?, its mother is traumatised by decapitated and amputated critters. Lots of spots and dots went into the shopping basket and here is how the quilt is shaping up on the design wall:
The Tri Recs tool (available in Australia from Punch with Judy) makes cutting and accurately piecing these triangles a breeze.