This is the beginning of my black and white quilt. I’m quite pleased with the negative/positive effect it’s creating.

This will consist of star rectangle blocks made with .75″, 1″ and 1.5″ diamonds and the appropriate setting bits and some solid black sashing. It will be a very long-term hand piecing project, which is just what I love! Thanks to Inklingo, it’s so easy to make these little blocks — just print, cut and stitch!

I think I may be quite mad — working on a black and white blocks in Toronto in March?!? The city is grey and dismal enough! Ah, well — there are always the ’30s tessellating pinwheels when I crave colour!

I had only printed enough to test out the effect and make sure I liked it. I do — and today I will be printing lots more of the pieces for the tiny stars. I cut the fabric to the right sizes for printing last night, so it’s just a matter of cutting the freezer paper, ironing it to the fabric and feeding it through the printer today.

We were lucky on the weekend and had tons of rain, which got rid of a lot of the snow. There’s still quite a bit out there but the towering snowbanks at the side of roads are definitely much reduced. As I type this, there are snowflakes drifting by the window. I hope this doesn’t amount to much — as of right now, we can see the grass on the roof garden again.