City Walk: an Oakshott 'Metro' project
Sometime in May, Lynne asked if I'd be interested in making a project with one of Oakshott's new fat eighth colourshott bundles . (These will be available at the Festival of Quilts in August and, I assume, on the website somewhere around the same time.) After a little ponder about whether I could manage to make a whole project (and write the tutorial) within the time frame (deadlines and pacing don't necessarily go together!), I said yes and I'm so glad I did! I missed all the pointy elbow emails that came as a result of us calling dibs on our chosen bundles as I was out with my mam and so I was left with the 'mystery' bundle which, a couple of days later, was revealed to be a 'neutrals' bundle. Not my usual stomping ground but I decided to decline the kind offers to swap (we hadn't yet seen a photo of this bundle so I had no idea what I was going to get!) and accept the challenge. Again, I'm glad I did as this gorgeous 'Metro...