Easter.

It is Easter weekend, it arrived early this year. Relaxing is what is we will be doing this weekend, more of that happened this past week. Our bodies reminds us to stop when we overdo things, which last week I did. Trimming the mystery quilt blocks to their size, just a few more... a few more. Not a good idea. They got trimmed and sorted, sew a few maybe a few more... Things did not end well, my shoulder bone is not happy and neither is the muscles attached to it. So no sewing for at least a week or two.

A Parcel arrived yesterday as I was washing the floors, the house always feels so much better when it is spruced up and clean. It used different muscles, so that is a win win! ( This parcel contained the treasures I won from Kim, her blog{www.sarahlizzies.blogspot.com} is a world of its own. In a very good way, she has a way with words and her garden is an amazing place to visit for a while. It is filled with colour, adventures and tea. Need I say more...

The treasures are squares from her collection of fabrics she has collected over the years and decided to gift to one lucky reader of her blog with a draw to celebrate her blogs birthday! A few days before finding out about this win, my niece and my eldest sister both asked for quilts for two great nieces. Oh boy, with girls quilts I always struggle. Never enough pinks, girly fabrics in my stash. One wants unicorns, the other lamas, bunnies and boho chic. The latter one is into pinks, dreamcatchers.

The first one never got to use her baby quilt, it went into the container when they moved countries. The company my nephew worked for promised to ship the container, then changed their minds. Since then he has changed jobs and started over from scratch. His daughter loves purple and pink, with unicorns.

Unicorn fabric, oh dear. Kate came to the rescue, we chatted on zoom and she had a panel with unicorn squares on it, she kindly gifted it to me and it arrived in the mail earlier this week.

Yesterday, the weather was nice and three library books needed to go back to the library, so I detoured and popped into The Sewing Cafe on the way back. Linda has a grandson who is Unicorn mad, she was looking to make him something special with unicorn fabric. She had not found any yet. What a way the universe works, not only could I share some of the loot, now we sound like pirates from the olden days, except it is fabric and treasure to us.

So next week she will get the parts, which would have been waiting for a project in my sewing room. The panel had two purple and one pink square, I have removed them carefully. Now you may be asking yourself, what in the world will you be making with the collection of fabrics and treasures? A pattern found me, as Kim use Tilda fabrics and she had made a bunny for her granddaughter. That led me down the garden path to Tildas world and the free pattern tab...(I started to look for a pattern where I could incorporate all the elements) before the parcel arrived. Amazing what happens when you ask for help!

It is called the Birthday quilt, perfect for using lots of fabrics. The unicorn quilt will have a purple background and the lama with the bunnies a pink background.

My original reason for my visit to The Sewing Cafe, to find background fabric ideas. Kona pink and orchid will both be perfect!

Playing with the squares, it will be so difficult to choose all the ones that will be used.

The baby quilt that my great niece Lara lost, her mom was so upset about this.

I found a little bit of the backing fabric which will be used in the making of the new quilt!