Stash Note 91 'First of Infinity Route 66 by Kumiko Fujita for Lecien

Happy bank holiday weekend everybody. Isn't it the best feeling today knowing that tomorrow is not Monday...well it is but not the usual Monday...if you know what I mean.

So I thought this is the good day for a lovely stash note.
Please meet the 2nd collection of "First of Infinity" by Kumiko Fujita for Lecien. This instalment is aptly named 'Route 66' and is again all about number, letters and road signs.

This 2nd collection has a lot more whites in its set than the first and includes as the name suggests many signs that are on the famous Route 66.

The fabric is still available at Pink Castle Fabrics.

Flower Sugar and Friends - a work in progress

 Moving on nicely...

 And a little close-up. Aren't these Lecien prints the cutest.

Flower, Sugar and Friends

I am holding another Baby Quilt class at the Village Haberdashery in September and have been planning to make a new class sample for a while now. So the other day I came across the few fat quarters of Lecien Flower Sugar I have in my stash and thought something ought to be done with it. They are the really beautiful prints from an older collection of the series (about 2 years ago) but the the new collection is rather gorgeous too by the way just in case you want to add it to your stash.

I love the turquoise, bright green and red in those prints and dived into my stash and scraps and pulled out a few more complimentary bits. I felt like doing something different and started cutting strips that I then combined with my Alexander Henry Heath in Steel Gray and the result are some beautiful 6" squares that are a mixture of strip pieced and half square triangle. I saw these first at Fresh Lemons Quilts sometime last year and the picture hast stuck ever since somewhere on the back of my brain. Faith also has a tutorial for those little butterflies too.

Stash Note 82

Following my last post about the quilt magazine 'Patchwork tsushin' I couldn't help myself and buy a good selection of the featured fabric of their last edition no 174. It is just to die for.

Meet the 'First of infinity' fabric collection from Kumiko Fujita produced by Lecien.

Don't you just love those fab text prints. And for a change we get text in bright and bold colours. Hurray !

And in VERY large letters

And in newspaper style !

And letters and signs to top it all.

Love

Bought at 'Sew Me a Song'

Brit Swap - front finished

Hello there on this rainy Sunday morning. I was all ready to go for my weekly 10 k run when the heavens opened........ so I thought I wait a little and use the time to appliqué a few more circles on my Brit Swap mini quilt and as it so happens a couple of hours later it was still raining but all circles were attached.
Not good for the body and that very much needed run but good for the mini quilt. ( I could go in the rain but it is just to awful today......and that is a feeble excuse).

So have a look and let me know what you think. I am very pleased with how it turned out and I could easily keep this quilt to myself if my Swap partner doesn't like it. But I think we share a similar taste as there is nothing in my partner's mosaic that I don't like so I am quietly confident that the mini quilt will have a reasonable reception. You may remember that I somewhat adapted the 'Charlotte Sometimes' quilt pattern (read here ).

I am also auditioning for quilt back options and would very much love to hear your opinion and advice.
To the left of the image below is a wonderful Echino print and to the right a fantastic Lecien vintage inspired print.  What do you think ? Or something else altogether ?