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Showing posts with label Ice Cream Fabric Swap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ice Cream Fabric Swap. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 August 2010

Ice Cream Colours


I'm feeling so pleased to have my bento box quilt finished and bound! This quilt started as a swap here when the ladies at PP exchanged strips of ice cream coloured fabric. Can you spot the flavours? Strawberry, mint, tuti-fruiti, blackcurrant sorbet, chocolate, vanilla, orange . . .

I've backed it with a lovely turquoise batik, so I'm thinking it will make a lovely picnic mat.


My lovely friend Jane has the most glorious garden which yields the most fantastic fruit and vegetables. She invited me to come over and pick some berries. These giant fruits are Jostaberries, a cross between a gooseberry and a blackcurrant which grow on a tree (with no thorns!!).


And these are red gooseberries (which do have enormous thorns!) but are delicious.

Jane's receipe for these two fruits is to cook equal quantities together in a large pan, puree and sieve out the pips. Add a little sugar and whipped creme freche and you have a wonderful summer pudding.

Hope you're enjoying the weekend!
Ros

Monday, 24 August 2009

Fabric swap


Ice Cream colours - this is the the swap theme!

Earlier this month some of the ladies from the PP Forum each bought 1 metre of fabric.


This is mine - blackcurrant sorbet!

We sliced it into two and a half inch strips and sent it off for swapping.



We each received 14 delicious colours in return.



With my strips I decided to make the Bento Box blocks and found there was just enough to make one block with two complete strips. That gave me 7 blocks, which is a funny number for a quilt, so I dashed out to my LQS and bought some extra 'flavours' to make it up to 9 blocks.

I'm just wondering what to do next. Should I put in sashings, or just a fairly wide border? The blocks are 12" so the quilt measures 36" at the moment.