Soy Amado No. 47

A windy No. 47

Would you look at that pig.

I LOVE the pig.

Keep an eye out for that pig.

It's female soul mate is set to make an appearance in another quilt.

Ok, so not the best picture of the back but you get the idea.

That's the trouble with taking out less than willing participants who try to shirk their promises and instead get me to hold the quilts up so they can take the photos.

She doesn't know I saw a text to a friend who was asking what she was up to.

'Out with mum AGAIN, holding up a quilt. LOL'

Clearly quilt holding upping is not being taken seriously.

Soy Amado No. 46

Back out with dog walking friend.

Her dogs, not mine.

We don't have any pets.

Not even a goldfish.

Much to the disappointment of the younger members of the family.

The dogs don't appear to be quilt lovers.

Some of the blocks are made up of incredibly tiny pieces.

And they've all come together to make Soy Amado No. 46

Soy Amado No. 45

Another low volume(ish) quilt.

With quite possibly a favourite back of mine.

And can I draw your attention to this block in particular.

I've seen this technique before where you draw on the fabric with coloured crayons and then set them with heat.

And I should also have drawn your attention to the block bottom left which has Soy Amado so beautifully embroidered into it but I forgot.

But possibly you can just make out the heart it is in, in this pic.

Another sunny day.

Soy Amado No. 44

Some purples, the same block in all four corners and No. 44 was decided.

Another fabulous 'Soy Amada' embroidered block from Sheila 

I'm beside a babbling brook in this one but I appreciate you probably can't see it but it is there and doesn't look much like it is babbling.

But it is.

And on this occasion I may be guilty of babbling too because I don't really know what else to say about this quilt other than I love it.

Soy Amado No. 43

It was supposed to rain today.

I put weed and feed down on the lawns, secure in the knowledge it was going to rain.

It didn't rain.

It hasn't rained for 16 days.

I thought I'd better put the sprinkler system on.

The sprinkler system is hidden in the buxus hedge surrounding the lawns.

The new gardener came.

He trimmed the buxus hedges.

He trimmed the sprinkler system.

The new gardener is not coming back.

First World problems.

I hope it rains.

Soy Amado No. 43 - for Developing World problems.

Soy Amado No: 42

Momentous moment.

Eldest daughter, spotted out in public, holding up a quilt.

But only because she bet me England would win their second game in the World Cup and I (with years of knowledge under my belt of how we under-perform on the big occasions) bet her they would lose. Her forfeit was to do the washing up for the week.

Of course they lost.
Negotiations were entered into.

"How about instead of me doing the washing up for a week, I hold some quilts up in public for you during the next seven days.

Game on.

As you can probably tell from the back, the vast majority of the blocks in this quilt came from one person - Helen - who blogs at Archie the Wonder Dog.

So I just popped in a few more blocks that matched the orange and purple theme she had.

Including this one which came in a batch from Leila who very kindly offered for US quilters to send blocks to her with $ towards postage and then she mailed me the one big box. I haven't counted but I think there are over a hundred blocks.

And that is Soy Amado No: 42

Soy Amado No. 41

And then as if by magic, just as I was coming to the end of blocks to choose from for No. 40, some more block-bearing parcels appeared.

Soy Amado No. 41, snapped outside a beach kiosk closed up for the day in the sinking evening sun.

Blocks that I felt were strong in colour and would all play nicely together.

As always, I love it when someone makes a Soy Amado block.

And a really random back. I love that world map fabric.

And an obligatory close-up for you.

And me breaking all the etiquette rules and standing on a picnic table.

Although technically I'm only standing on the chair bit.

And quilts are exempt from that rule.

So that's OK then.