Playing with quilts (just an excuse to buy more fabric!)

Hi, my names Helen and I'm addicted to fabric!
Ahh, that feels better...

I never thought two years ago that I would become so obsessed with little bits of cloth. But these days I can tell my Michael Miller from my Tula Pink and my Joel Dewberry from my Amy Butlers - I'm not sure whether to be proud or slightly ashamed of my geekiness when it comes to fabric!?

Over a short period of time I've managed to accumulate quite a collection of my favourite pieces, but there is one fabric designer whose fabrics all seem to be winners. Kate Spain makes the most beautiful designs.

Because all of her fabrics are sooo amazing I've never been able to decide which to buy. Fortunately, in the world of quilting they do these handy little pre-cut packs, which means you don't have to choose - you can buy lots of bits of the whole collection.

So, about 2 years ago I bought a pre-cut quilt kit from Kate Spain's Terrain collection.

But I never quite got around to starting it - always being a bit fearful of cutting it wrong! Then, two weeks ago - egged on by my Facebook friends - I finally made a start.

As predicted, I did make a mistake when trying to follow the pattern. But hopefully no-one but me will ever notice. This is what the finished item should have looked like....

But this is what mine is looking like so far. Can you spot where I went wrong?

There's still a long way to go (and my bags have been a little bit neglected lately!), but it's been really fun to play with lots of different coloured fabrics (with maybe enough offcuts to make a patchwork bag or two!) and hopefully by next weeks Handmade Monday I'll be able to show you what mine looks like.