The very lazy crafter

My hubby says that of late, I am like an empty hospital - I have no patients (patience - his jokes are appalling!).  I don't know where it went - perhaps he and two kids and a frustrating occupation have taken its toll!  He's not far wrong though, and I find that whilst I still like to craft, I do like to see a quick result.  So when I popped into a lovely craft shop recently, I found myself admiring a "charm" pack with HUGE squares that I knew would quickly make up a lovely bed size quilt. The main attractions for charm packs for me are that they are already perfectly cut (my cutting is sloppy!!) and they are colour matched perfectly too.  I think you are  supposed to cut theses exceptionally large squares up and make fancy shapes with them, but I was having none of that.  So I sat and sewed them all together, then sandwiched a lovely piece of cotton wadding between that and my backing fabric - and hey presto!!

 Now anyone who has bought a charm pack knows that they are ridiculously expensive - but in my defence your honour, the denim I backed it with was absolutely free of charge to me.  I've had it ages and it needed using.

 I made the backing a few centimetres wider than the quilt and folded it over so that I didn't need to bind the edges too - proper lazy!!

But I have decided that I will hand quilt it a little at a time - as and when the mood takes me.  I think this quilt will go very nicely in my tent.