A completed flimsy and lots of memories

Well, I did it! I finally finished my Chinese Coin flimsy. It only needed 2 seams sewn to finish it.

I love it, so bright and cheerful, to my eyes it is a real Patchwork Quilt.

It reminds me of the wonderful story book I had as a child (I still have it, tattered from so much use).
The book was called “Grey Rabbit and the Wandering Hedgehog”  by Alison Uttley, one of a series about Grey Rabbit, Hare and Squirrel, all delightful books.
In this book Grey Rabbit meets the Wandering Hedgehog and wants to make him a coat. Wise Owl gives her a book called “ The Cutter and Tailor. How to make a coat out of bits and pieces.”
Hare visits all the neighbours for bits and pieces of cloth and comes home with strips of fabric over his arms and dangling round his neck and Grey Rabbit, always so clever in her quiet understated way, makes a wonderful coat of many colours.

And here’s The Wandering Hedgehog, delighted with his gift, holding up the sides of the coat and  dancing a “clumsy dance”.

The book was published in 1948, a year after I was born, and reminds me of my childhood.
I think this must have been where my love of colour and bits of fabric began but it took until 1997 before I “discovered” Patchwork and Quilting. The rest, as they say, is history.