As my daughter grew up some of the scraps from clothes I made for her
were cut into squares and saved. Early in 2001 I finally plucked
up courage and sewed them together. With 2 small boys around to "help"
a couple of the squares were mislaid which led to a quick rearrangement
of the pattern! Any way following the piecing I went to Croft
Mill, who make and sell 108" wide sheeting, and bought the material for
the borders, backing and binding. When I made up the quilt top
I found I needed a bigger piece of wadding (batting) than I had bought!
Doing a net search found The Cotton Patch who supplied me with a
polyester hi-loft wadding of suitable size. I then layered it, pinned
it (NB must buy a large quantity of safety pins), tied it with variegated
embriodery floss, and finally bound it and had it ready in good time for
my daughter's birthday. I even made a couple of pillow cases from
the backing fabric to match.
