Yesterday was a rough day. So was today. Prayers and rest and turning to some creativity helped last night.
Do you recognize the yellow fabric? Hint: It was not curtain fabric, but that is a close guess!
Sitting across the room from me last night was a box I was too distracted to notice. If I had opened it last night, I would have been completely distracted from those pesky distractions!
I opened it this afternoon and was dreamily distracted from the aforementioned distractions!
Just look at all the delicious aquas and turquoise batiks in this kit. It is the BQ Turquoise Quilt Kit, using a pattern from Maple Quilts. The pattern is titled just "BQ", and I have not figured out what "BQ" stands for.
The concept for the pattern is using six blocks in multiples to create a quilt of varying sizes. "Build the Big Quilt in sets of six blocks....", so maybe "BQ" stands for Big Quilt?
At any rate, Stitchin' Heaven put this kit together using dreamy aquas and turquoise.
I like pretty packages. Look at the pretty basket and pretty arrangement of the fabric under the shrink wrap.
Then they planned for distracted people like me...with an inventory of what is in the package! LOL
Hey, that is a real concern for me. By the time the daily distractions distract me from happy distractions like this, I forget what was included in the kit! Even though this looks fast and easy to sew together, those distractions can be dastardly distracting, ya know?
This kit is for a queen sized quilt (Yes, I knew that when I ordered the kit).
Now I get to decide whether to hunt for beautiful fabrics to enlarge this to a king size quilt with borders. I still get to look for fabric to make the backing of this quilt. You know me...the hunt for fabric gets my juices going!
I might make another set of six blocks to add width to the quilt. What would you suggest?
Then to top it all off, there was a free fat quarter and a nice little thank you note. Purr.
So to recap: pretty packaging, escape from dastardly distractions, refreshing kits and block of the month quilts, dreamy fabrics, checklist for my overloaded memory, free fat quarter and a thank you note. I'll be back, Stitchin' Heaven!