one week to go......

.. til the end of January and that means the end of my Dryathlon for CancerResearchUK and may be a wee glass of something nice to celebrate.  It also is the end of the first month of A Lovely Year of Finishes and I am making progress, having just finished Jack's quilt top (apologies for the photo but I was just so chuffed to get it done that standing on a chair, directly underneath a useless an energy saving light bulb at night seemed a decent enough option)...

around 42" by 46"

it's not perfect but I'm fairly happy with the sewing.  I've learnt a lot about cutting 60 degree triangles and sewing them together so I'd do this style again I reckon.  I went for random random not planned random apart from the end strips and I'm not sure it was the right choice but Laughing Boy thought it was pretty cool and I don't often get much more than a shrug so thumbs up I say!  Now I have to make the back, sandwich, quilt and bind this baby before the end of next week.  50/50 chance I'd say.

Oh and in keeping with my attempts to use what I have rather than buy, during a rummage this morning I found some cotton webbing, T-shirt transfer paper and this tutorial and came up with my own labels:

I still have to iron over them with baking parchment paper to take the shine off and I have shed loads of them now of course!  Still it was cheaper than the etsy options so I'm happy :)