One domestic job that I really enjoy is hanging out the washing. I find it calming. (Though hanging out the washing on a day potentially full of showers, fending off a toddler who is determined to annoy his baby sister? Not so calming.)

Of course my hb will probably find it hilarious that I like hanging out the washing, given how much washing he ends up hanging out. But with two still in cloth nappies we have A LOT of washing that needs to go out.

Last summer GardenMama ran a project called Wash Wednesday that was really very beautiful and inspiring. It was running while we were getting ready to move, and it made me so excited that we were finally going to have a proper garden to hang our washing in. (Up until then we had a balcony that was over-looked by trees.)

Anyway I would encourage you to go have a look. Maybe you’ll be inspired too.

If you are, then you need to know about raintoday.co.uk (thank you TheFrogPrincess!) which helps you to work out if it’s going to rain or not. It’s very clever. And today it showed me that despite what BBc weather might say, it really wasn’t going to rain today.

So out the washing went.

And out the nappies went.

And out the new fabric went.

And out the (freshly dyed) yarn went. o/

(I have a ton of projects that have been made, and not blogged about, so let’s jumping in, and over the next few days I’ll try to show you them…)

You know I said yesterday that I can’t leave Darn it and Stitch without buying something? Well about a 6 weeks ago I saw they had some of the Moda Central Park charmpacks in stock and they looked so tasty that I had to finally start making quilts! (It was only a matter of time mind you.)

I thought a little floor quilt would be a good place to start, somewhere for LR to play when she’s in the backroom or the kitchen. Unfortunately it’s a little bit late for her, since she’s trying to shuffle about, and gets under the quilt rather than sitting on it, but it’s still fun for her, so it’s all good.

Apart from the top, all of the rest of the quilt came from my stash – it was a great excuse to give a good home to the lovely backing fabric (which I had decided would be too eye popping as trousers for FB.)

I really enjoyed the process – laying out the top and making it non-matchy and clashy (which is a great lesson for general design I think. Done well it keeps things really interesting.)

I love hand finishing bias binding (which I already knew!) so finishing the quilt was a real pleasure.

And when it stops being useful on the floor, then I know a patch of wall where it will look great.