Water quilt/ coat

I have been a busy bee! The water quilt top is finished. Or I thought it was. Mum rang just as I'd pinned it up and I sat on the floor to talk to her. Then I saw it. Oh please let it be just a question of perspective, please, please.... but no..... can you see the mistake?

Yup, the strip right under the top tryptich is half an inch wider than the other two. And its really noticable in real life. Bugger. After I have unpicked and trimed, it will have more detail quilted into the pictoral aspects and just possibly some beads in the fountain water jets. De, the angel who runs Midsomer Quilting, is lending me her workshop room when the shop is closed to quilt it because I am going to Bath next Saturday for Easter and don't fancy quilting this on a breakfast nook table. It is for the Water special category at the Trentham Garden show in April.

In case you missed previous posts, it is called Rositha's World after the baby who was born in a tree during the 2000 Mosambique floods. The panels represent drought, plenty and flood. I audtioned several fabrics for the outer vertical borders and having picked this one asked Dennis what he thought. "Oh definatley," he said, "the fish are perfect."

Fish? What fish? I took a closer look. Oh yeah, that random patter is -um, fish! (Thanks Lesley, for telling me to buy it ten minutes before the Harrogate show closed even though I could barely carry all that I'd already bought!)

Then I also finished my first ever coat tonight. here is the front - all green fabrics from Magie Relph, the black is boiled wool. (It's hanging a bit funny on the hanger here!)

Here is the back

and here are the two pieces together.