Now here's the science bit

So its been awhile and yes I admit I've been a little slack.....

I could blame the fact I've been snowed under with work or the weekends spent away from home.....Lisbon and North York Moors don't you know but really I've just been a little slack. My current project is yet again a baby quilt but I've gone a little more adventurous.

Project 4; Baby quilt for Jill - due early December

I don't know the sex of the baby so perhaps misguidely I've opted for a mainly pink scheme but there are some blues in there....come on gender colours for babies is sooooo over-rated ;D

The design changed quite a lot and the husband had a helping hand in getting the final look right.

Carrots are integral to good quilt design

So the top is all sewn together and I had to find a backing - pink was too pink and blue wasn't quite right so I settled on white. But.....got a little creative

Now here's the science bit.......so Jill is my current boss and in our lab we're all pretty much stuck on GPCR's (G-protein coupled receptors) and without going into too much detail that there on the right is one :)
For my own spot of creativity I've created Jill her own Pink GPCR with my favourite C-term heart motif :)

Now  I just need to combine both together...hopefully they won't look too weird together or else there's a lot more sewing to do!

Couple of purchases - my very own rotary cutter....buying which I got ID'd!! so now into the 30's I still look under 18 and likely to mug a granny with my lethal rotary cutter.
And a darning foot which I hope actually does double as a free motion quilting foot....the next challenge :)


Aforementioned husband really is lovely and bought me some flowers while I was feeling a little ill last week :D