The blocks for the 4 corners of the sky quilt are now done. I finished the final two over the weekend. Now to get the rainbow started. That may have to wait a few days. My hands are really acting up so trying to get out the box with the reds is not going to happen till they calm down a bit.

My plan is to have a rainbow made of approximately 20 different fabrics, all varying tones of classic rainbow colours, as the middle of the quilt with these 4 smaller blocks in the corners. However, I may do these four blocks each as a separate little quilt but to be hung together. That way I can use different fabrics for the background and could then change where the twilight, sunset, sunrise and blazing sun blocks are around the rainbow whenever I want. Perhaps I’ll even keep them basically circular although I suppose that may present challenges when it comes to hanging them.

The Tropical Punch blocks are still in need of the right background, but I think I know what I want — an almost fluorescent lime green.

As I haven’t got the diamonds printed yet for the rainbow and can’t really get at the fabric I want for part of it, I’m going to do another few Giddy at the Thought of Spring blocks. I’m very grateful that piecing doesn’t seem to aggravate my hands even at the worst of times.


This, to me, is one of the benefits of Inklingo. I tend to print and cut a lot of shapes at once and have them tucked away. When my hands are bad, I can pick a project on which to work without having to do any cutting or pressing or anything. I think of those little packets full of shapes as my Quilter’s Emergency Kits!

Lester’s still waiting to see kitty entertainment on the roof garden. So far we have seen no squirrels and very few birds. On Sunday afternoon a few pigeons swooped in and he watched them quite intently. The tail was swishing and his eyes were enormous! Afterwards, he needed to rest his eyes for a minute, it seems, before watching for more entertainment.