A while ago, as a challenge to myself (to prove
that I could do it!) I entered a challenge run
by Sunflower Fabrics of Bedford, UK.

The brief was simple - purchase a pack of eight
pieces of material (fat eights), adding one more
colour only and a backing, and using all or some
of the material, produce a quilt inspired by a 
greetings card which was also included.  This
was a photograph of a kitchen from a farmhouse,
with an Aga cooker, an old wooden table and chair,
and a cute little lamb on the floor looking worried
 - could it see a jar of mint jelly I wonder?

I added a second yellow with a pale orange leafy
design on it to be used as background for the
houses and in the border.  I also had to purchase
an additional length of the red, as I wanted the
border to be single strips of yellow, black and
red (I already had loads of the black from my
tumbling blocks quilt). 

And the result of the competition?

I came 4th (out of five) but the moral of this
story is...

... if you don't try at all you don't succeed!

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