Darling Baby Kay - today it was too wet to go anywhere so we just stayed around the house together. I got the ironing done while you were happily entertaining yourself on the floor with your toys - and you had your bath and went down to sleep in great form.

This evening I have pulled out all my quilting fabrics to start and pick the ones I want to use for a quilt for you, little darling. Some of the little fat quarters have been in my stash for a very long time and come from all over the world, waiting on a special project to use them on. I have some beautiful ones from New Orleans, some from London, some from New Zealand, and even some Nanny brought me back from holiday from Nashville! I have been keeping them all together for such a long time, and now that you are here I think that this special fabric can go into a quilt for a very special little girl.

It is probably going to take me a year to finish, since I am not a very fast quilter, but you wouldn't be getting it til you were a bit bigger and going into a 'big-girl' bed anyway, so I can take my time and enjoy working on it over the evenings. I love this part of any needlework project - just before you start and gather together all the parts, and work out what blocks to use. It holds so much potential - that will really only become apparent over the coming weeks and months as I start to cut and stitch. I am itching to get started!