small sips of summer
A little while ago I crocheted some apple cosies for Rachel, who doesn’t crochet. Just look at what she sent me in return!
A gorgeous mini-quilt in all the bright colours that I love, beautifully pebble quilted in the sashing in a way that makes the rectangles of print fabrics stand out in relief.
And divine dahlia hair clips for my girls! These are so pretty – Rachel has linked to a tutorial if you’d like to give them a try. The girls pounced on them the moment I opened my parcel – they were very impressed and quickly claimed one each.
Thank you so much Rachel – I know how much work goes into crafting things like these! What generous crafters there are in the blogosphere. I get a kick out of Rachel crafting “small sips of summer” while in the middle of an American snowy winter – then sending it to the middle of summer in Australia!
Those are gorgeous clips indeed. As, of course, the miniquilt is gorgeous too. Am off to follow the link. Thanks Lara.
Those hair clips are gorgeous – so effective. I’m wondering whether my felt has been packed yet and if I can squeeze one in before we move! The quilt is fabulous too – another resolution for this year is to try quilting and it’s so inspiring to see all these wonderful quilts in blogland, but my sewing machine is now packed, so that project will have to wait.
I love the quilt and the hair clips. What a pleasant surprise.
Gorgeous!!! She does amazing work! (but of course, I’m biased since she made a wonderful quilt for my son a few years ago…) 😉
that really is a prefect title for such a summery quilt!
and those hair clips are divine!
So beautiful – lucky you!