2009 New Year, new quilt

Over Christmas I started a new quilt based on blues and green. Part of a vain effort to make some inroads on my ridiculously large fabric stash. It's not finished yet, but this is it so far ... The quilt's a simple design based on rectangles, and I managed to get the sewing machine working for long enough to sew them together. The actual quilting was done by hand, and I've still got the edges to bind. I'm very pleased with the colours, and after this one I'm going for a red & green design. It's funny how the patchwork bug grabs you every now and again. What it is about cutting up perfectly good pieces of fabrics then sewing them back together that's so addictive??!!