The UFO's have landed!!!!

I tidied out my sewing cupboard the other day...

I know exactly how poor old Hercules must have felt upon first entering the stables of Augeus, and the cold realisation of the enormity of the task dawned on him! There were many drawers filled with many things, each one of infinite beauty to my magpie eye but damn-all usefulness. And then there were the UFO's...

These Un Finished Objects, begun in the first bloom of enthusiasm, then discarded when a brighter project caught my attention, or the gulf between my imagination and my skill was simply too wide to leap, lay stuffed in the backs of drawers like dirty secrets. I emptied them out. DIY lingerie? What was I thinking? Mounds of used, ironed dryer sheets for God knows what? Bin. Oooh! What's this?

Folded in a ball, I shook out my first (and only) attempt at a quilt. Okay, the quarter inch seams were more free-spirited than is generally accepted amongst the quilting élite but the colours were pretty and I had made the top and basted the three layers of the quilt before I'd abandoned ship.

I took it out, quilted, trimmed and hand binded it. It didn't take long, as it happens. The little one who I'm giving it to wasn't even a gleam in her Daddy's eye when the project was started but I'm delighted at the thought of how my UFO will be chewed and dribbled upon and, if it's lucky, be that little girl's special comfort blanket.

I should really finish that DIY lingerie... but first! I think I'll start another quilt! :)