Why the rush?  My mother is going into hospital in Belgium  at the end of this moth to have her exceedingly painful hip joint replaced.  I am unable to travel for health reasons so I opted to make this as a hug for her while she is away.  She’s also going to be in hospital on her birthday so it is sort of a birthday present too.

You may think this is a little masculine for a 60 something but as she is very involved in sailing  on the technical side and is a frustrated naval architecht, I think it is perfect.  We’ll see tomorrow if she likes it.

Here is where the instructions are kinda heading out of the window.  I have glue basted the pieces together using the Sewline glue pen which is fantastic but I need more glue refills – call me stuck up but one was not enough!  The other part of the ‘instructions optional’ approach was that I elected to quilt as I went on this as for purely physical reasons.  I cannot manipulate a quilt with any degree of ease on my machine and even simple ditch quilting is exhausting. At least this way, when the final backing goes on, the bulk of the work will be done.

The fabric is Swanky by Chez Moi for Moda and it has a really good balanced set of colours that are not pastel but quite sherberty.  Anyway I love almost all of the prints in this collection, a couple are a bit wishy washy though.  As this goes on, I’m wondering what I can make with the rest of the jelly roll?

The fabric is Neptune by Tula Pink for Moda.  This is one layer cake and one jelly roll.  the pattern is Old Gold from Layer Cake, Jelly Roll & Charm Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott.  Fun pattern and clear instructions even for a complete idiot like me!