Yesterday was a good day, productivity-wise.

I had a few things to sort out and I made a very good start on the real biggie.

It’s a commission for a boy’s quilt.

The thing about undertaking commissions, is that you never quite know whether the actual finished article is going to match the recipient’s vision of the finished article – until it’s too late…

Which makes the process somewhat nerve-wracking!

But you can only do your best.

And I actually really like the way this is shaping up. Which is as good as it gets at this stage of proceedings.

You may remember, or you may not, that I collected quite a number of rather spiffy vintage tea towels a while back. It was not without purpose.

Well, it was time for them to meet their destiny. In the space of a day they have been transformed from this…

 To this…

I did consider just sewing all those squares together.

But with so much going on within each square, I think that the eye really needs a place to rest.

And the design needs the structure and discipline of some plain white sashing to really make each square sing.

So my next job will be to cut a lot of white cotton strips.

And then the work really begins! ♥