I just love stitching 9 and 4-patch blocks sometimes. They are always so satisfying to finish and go together so quickly. We had a swap of 1″ squares on the Inklingo list last year and I got rather carried away with printing the little squares. Now I have all sorts of them that I am slowly putting together into 4 or 9-patch blocks here and there. Not sure if I’m heading towards a doll’s quilt with these or will just keep going till I have enough pieced to make a lap-sized quilt but, in the meantime, I’m having so much fun stitching them! There are evenings when I want to stitch, but want something mindless and that’s when these come out.

Hand stitching means I can fan the intersections, like this, and have no bulk. When pressed, the blocks lie wonderfully flat and look super.

Smudge, in yet another of his numerous poses. The pictures of him are endless! He loves having his picture taken — the minute he hears that little click when we turn the camera on, he poses. Thank goodness for digital cameras. We could never have taken as many pictures of these two and developed them all with a regular camera!

I thought (wishful thinking?) that winter was over. Wrong! Yesterday afternoon, just in time for rush hour, the wind picked up, snow and rain started and it was absolutely miserable. At least today we’ve got sun, although I think there’s another storm coming tomorrow. Beginning to think this will be one of the years we go from having heat on to having the air conditioning on and no moderate weather in between.