As always, my choices were in large part based on Amazon reviews and their Look Inside feature. (Does anyone else rely on these when choosing books, too?)
I'd like to make a couple of quilts for the new apartment, but my focus on patchwork now has a deadline - a friend of ours is having a baby at the end of the summer, and I'd like to give them a baby quilt for the newborn. I've also, rather foolishly, asked them if they would like one ... they loved the idea, and so now I'm bound to it - failure is not an option!
Personally, I'm not a big fan of 'pink for girls and blue for boys', plus they don't yet know the sex of the new addition, so I'm going for one of my favourite colour combos, which is also gender-neutral: red, white and blue. Even better, the father used to be in the navy, so the nautical theme is rather apt! I also bought a darning foot, so I'd like to put the baby's name (when it's decided) on the quilt using free machine embroidery.
In other news - in March, I've been mostly moving and unpacking (mostly sorted!), playing Mass Effect 3 and marking exams (it's that time of year!). I had to wait for ages to unpack my desk ad sewing area as we had a leak coming through the ceiling and I didn't want to risk unpacking my belongings in case it came back. Fingers crossed, things look OK and I've started organising my space - pictures to come soon!
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