It is Paddington Bear………..right up there with Pooh in my opinion.
I went into EQ and designed this spiffy little quilt. All log cabin. I picked up all the colours from the swatch and it looked pretty darn good. Then I went to the store and started to look for fabrics. I had two in my stash.
I looked and looked and Charleen looked and finally all these fabrics were stacked up. I thought they looked pretty darn good. I sat and made it up and got this!
Boy was I disappointed. That bluey/turquoisey colour is a disaster. Its way too bright and that green…..well it just isn’t working, not with that bluey fabric anyway.
I went out bright and early the next morning and spent an hour at another store and when I got home I made up this….
still not great, but its getting there.The final attempt is this and I must say I am quite a bit happier with it.
When I wrote the column the big decision was what to back it with. I have a lot of flannelette so yellow will go on one of them and I’m thinking blue on the other…….maybe green………yeah, I think green.
I like this pattern. I made something similar years ago for a log cabin workshop and it doesn’t take long to make up. A half a day and you have a baby quilt.
I posted this quilt on my forum and the girls liked it, so I made a PDF. You can grab it here................https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B29u680jsp73NmswejJsLV85MlE/edit?usp=sharing