Fire. I'll teach you to burn

So, before I ask your advice about my quilt-in-progress, I just want to tell you about Knit and Crochet Blog Week (KniCroBloWe? No, perhaps not ;-) ).

It’s being organised by Eskimimi of Eskimimi Knits, as a thing arising from the Blog Hub group on Ravelry (I didn’t express that very well, you know what I mean). Anyway, during that week, lots of knit and crochet bloggers are going to be blogging on the same topics but bringing their own personal neuroses creativity into it, it’s going to be great. If you have any interest at all in things of an interlocking loop nature, why don’t you join in? You’d be very welcome. Even if you’re not a knit/ crochet blogger normally, you could join in any of the days where the topics interest you or you have something to say, because there’s nothing the knit/ crochet blog community likes more than Fresh Blood. Come, come and join us (says she with a sinister expression, beckoning from behind cloak).

Also, if you’re not already on Ravelry and you have even the most passing interest in anything woolly – if you once admired the size of a huge ball of aran: if you’ve ever peered at your friend’s handknit shawl in handspun laceweight and said ‘I’d like one like that. Could you make me one for next week? I’ll give you £5 and try not to leave it in the pub': if you have a secret hankering for one of those poodle toilet roll covers which you can’t buy in shops: then do not waste another moment of this brief, confusing life, get over instantly to Ravelry and register, because it’s just a marvellous, marvellous site. Patterns, help, projects to lust after, everything. And we nice people in the Blog Hub group will mop up your blood and tears when you turn up, fresh from the triumph of having rushed to the forums 1 minute after signing up and started a topic with the title ‘I can’t believe people knit with Acrylic! OMGZ!!!!! Have they got no taste!!!?’ or, ‘Why would anyone want to crochet LOL? I suppose only because it’s so much easier than knitting’.

For lots more info on KniCroBloWe (I jest), get on over to Mimi’s lovely blog. If you haven’t already found her blog, then you’re in for a treat, I personally wish she would come over and take all my photographs for me because, well, look at hers, so she is very lucky she doesn’t live in Cambridge because I can imagine that might come to be a burden in time.

Now onto my quilt-in-progress. Could I have some advice, pls, nice internet people? I have pieced the top, this is it.

900 squares of pleasure

There are a couple more rows of blue on the top where it is hanging over the fence. In case you are not quite sure what my Vision was, it is supposed to look like fire (do you see, hey hey hey? At the bottom?). It is 60” square and I am thinking that what will set it off is a 5” border all the way around. People: I do not have it in me to piece a border. I am going to go wild and buy more fabric so I can do a solid border. But, what colour? What do you think? It is a quilt for my mother, and obviously I could ask her, but she will say beige and, this might surprise you, but I am not a beige person (I mean, I would consider it, but. Let’s think of ALL the other options first). I thought possibly grey? Or fuschia? Or navy? I will use either a solid colour or, one with a small print. I have looked in John Lewis and, nothing, so I shall have to poke about online. Sigh, internet fabric shopping, such a burden, my life, it is hard, whine whine whine.

(Go on, mum, tell me what you want. Leave me a comment. I’m ignoring you if you say beige, though).