Kat - screw Martha Stewart - blue and yellow are a marvellously cheerful combination, although my altime favourite after plain yellow, has to be blue and buttercream (too dark to be cream, too pale to be primrose) which reminds me of a tea plate at my granfers house. At the age of 3 I fell in love with it and cried if I didn't get it at tea time... I still wonder what happened to it, whether it was part of a set and what happened to that set?

Anyway... pieced and sewed almost all one quilt - got distracted by a Sean Connery film (Robin and Marian - Sean at his most rugged, Audrey Hepburn at her most beautiful, with amazing photography and a glorious baddie - it coincided with the child's piano lesson and my excuse for watching it was that the sewing machine would have been too noisy and distract them) and sewn two bits in the wrong place thus necessitating the unpicking and resewing of an entire row of squares (it's 7 x 9 and it just had to be a 9 square row didn't it!). Still, at least I noticed it before I did the next bit... There's just one row to go then I can start to piece together the next quilt (in earthy tones of sienna, ochre, umber, rose, heather and slate) which is a bit bigger, a more complicated pattern that just squares and as yet has no intended recipient. It's making a pleasant change from cross stitching cards but I really should be getting on with some serious dressmaking before the child grows too big for the pattern I have.

I may have lost a couple of pounds although the curry last night will have put them back... I haven't checked recently.

Enjoy the day all, I'm off to slave over a hot sewing machine!

LTS