I had a sewing project for this summer that never took off, mostly because I have been lacking textiles: I wanted to sew a quilt for our little baby in the colours of Spain, Skåne (Scania – my region in Sweden) and Belgium. It just happens that the three flags have red and yellow in common, plus black for the Belgian flag.
The three colours needed for the quilt – I was thinking maybe 45% red, 45% yellow and 10% black…
Also, because I was confined to the house for the whole summer it was impossible for me to go fabric hunting. When my parents came to visit, my mother brought a pile of left-over textiles from my childhood, and my dear Peruvian friend M in Puerto Rico sent me some unicoloured fabrics but I really need more yellow and black pieces. I looked in Ikea last weekend but they had NO yellow or black fabrics at all. Actually the shelves were very empty, I guess that they are waiting for the new collection to arrive…
As a child I used to have some piece of clothing (a dress most probably?) that my mother made from this fabric
My mother sewed a red quilt for me when I was a baby and this was one of the fabrics she used
The red & white flowery textile is actually a scarf that matches a little apron that I got for Christmas one year, and my brother got a blue & white set ;-)
The old [faded on one side] curtains from my room in my childhood home. The wallpaper was white with red stripes and my mother got the inspiration for the curtains from the (then) newly built Post Office in the village – those curtains were brown and white and she really liked the textile. My brother’s room had the same wallpaper but with blue stripes and you can probably guess what the curtains looked like*!
So, if you have any left-over yellow or black fabrics (preferably in cotton), please think of me and my quilt project! As you can see from the ones I already have, the textiles don’t need to be unicoloured as it is actually more interesting with a pattern. I will probably have to ask my mother to help me sew the quilt as I might be a bit busy over the next few months…
This is the only fabric I have found myself, when I was back home in Sweden in the beginning of June (from Åhléns)
My sister and my mother found this yellow & white fabric that I really like as it matches the blue & white clouds on the box that they bought for Sweet Pea’s toys… The textile is a copy of the classic Swedish cloud design below:
The original cloud design, by Gunila Axén from 1967. I have actually just ordered the original cloud fabric in black and white on-line today!
*) It’s funny how all through our childhood my brother would get the blue stuff and I the red things – maybe that’s why I love blue so much nowadays, especially for interior, because I was denied it as a child!? 
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