Happy sewing.

Plenty action in this household over the past week and a half.  Our bedroom has been cleared - as much as we can really. Our bed is very heavy with a mattress that I can hardly lift to tuck the sheet around so it lives where it lives. But it's surroundings are due a freshen up - loud HOORAY!!! We picked up some  WALLPAPER in the sales, and himself has promised to paint the white bits and I have promised to wallpaper. I quite like it actually. I like to cut up the pieces and match up the patterns , are you laughing, I do indeed use my patchwork ruler and a rotary cutter that is now for paper, so it is a busman's holiday - maybe he got the short straw as ceilings and skirtings aren't much like newspapers...
Last week I completed block 3 and 4 of the civil war block of the week

I haven't photographed the 4th one yet, thought I had. I put a border of navy around my japanese blocks.

I kept holding other colours beside it, and in between the navy and the blocks but in the end I just put it on as is. I'm quite happy. The plan is to put a little something on the border once I have quilted it a bit. Maybe some japanese applique... where on earth it will go I don't know. Bit dark and large for a hanging and not big enough for the bed. I thought this might be though...

Although - I did think it would be a bit bigger. I'm using 2 Minnick 7 Simpson layer cakes that I have kept for a few years. I often have woken thinking about them. I love the colours so much. So it's becoming a Courthouse Steps quilt. So far I have got 30 blocks. I have cut 12 more centres, so that will give me 6x7. I have also kept back some strips to maybe get some flying geese for a border, but that's all pie-in-the-sky. We'll see. I like that about patchwork, the little path that can be unknown.