Too Busy To Sew - Try A Quilt Kit

I have always doubted the articles in magazines that say - Make A Quilt This Week-end. Now I have just made one.

Two factors made my week-end quilt possible. I used a quilt kit with a large central panel. I was also away with my quilting mates for a sewing week-end. What a pleasure to relax with friends to laugh with and a project to work on.

Secretly I thought that using a kit and a panel was cheating. That was before Carols of Midland started coming out with some stunning kits. Now I no longer care if it was cheating or not.

This rug is for my two year old nephew Bronson who lives in a cold wild corner of Tasmania. I backed the quilt with royal blue chenielle to make it cosy.

It was fun to use the BSR function on my Bernina to sew around all the big digger outlines in the central panel. This makes them stand out and gives the rug some interesting texture.

I hope Bronson drags this rug around the yard. I hope he takes it to watch his brother play footy. He might use it as a cubby or a truck rug when he is driving with his Dad. I hope it is used every day.

A few years into school Bronson will probably be too grown up for a quilt with yellow diggers all over it. By then I hope it is stained, threadbare and enjoying a second life as a beach shack bath mat or a rug for the new puppy.

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