Watching the circle appear as I joined the fourth block to the first three made me smile. Now there’s no stopping me on this. I love the look I’m getting with all these shabby chic fabrics. Sort of like an old chintz print in an English cottage somewhere, I think. Mr. Q.O. keeps looking at it and saying it looks old. Just the look I’m after!
Putting this together is actually less of a planning nightmare than I had anticipated. The bonus of it is that, as I’m joining the blocks as I go, when I’m finished making the blocks the quilt top itself will be finished. As I want a fair number of circles to appear, I think this will end up as a bed-sized quilt. Maybe even king size. That I’m not sure about yet. But it will be large.
We had the most glorious weather on the weekend with highs in the mid to high 20s Friday and Saturday. Sunday was mild as well. Although we had fairly strong winds for a while on Saturday night, it wasn’t the heavy wind storm they initially predicted. And no rain. An absolutely perfect first long weekend of the spring/summer season. The leaves on the crab apple trees on the roof garden are starting to make an appearance.
Smudge has been busy watching out the window with Lester. We didn’t get a shot of him but Sunday he was very intent watching something. Here he’s in an almost headless cat pose.
Lester relaxing Saturday night after a lot of watching out the window during the day.
Quilt Obsession 
i can’t wait to see more . I love it when you get inspired and blocks seem to fly together!
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You definitely have the shabby chic going with this block. Beautiful! So glad you had great weather! We did too! I wish it would be like that all year!. Lester looks like he is trying to tell you something.
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Such a beautiful block.
It looks like Lester is tying to say something !
Wishing you all a Happy Easter.
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I love the secondary design in the block. It does take a lot of thought. I love it when the husband’s catch on to what we try to accomplish with the blocks! Way to go Mr. QO!
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Lovely! I too like how the blocks form yet another design when combined! I also love the quilt that you are using in your header 🙂 You continue to amaze me and brighten my mail box each day. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
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It really will have a soft, old fashioned look to it. I can see this one will be a lot of fun for you to plan and sew.
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It does have an old fashioned look and how can you not like that!
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I just glanced at the photo of Lester in the chair, and my brain was convinced you had photoshop’d him as curled up in the palm of a hand. Love that chair, and my screwy brain’s visual misinterpretation!
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Wow. I’m really loving the textures and colors that pop out all over on this one. Reminds me of the material obsession palate.
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Oh my, Cathi! This is going to be another looker!!!! Just remember, if you ever fall out of love with it, you have my email. 🙂 Just joking!
I hope you are getting to enjoy some of the nicer weather…
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Cathi….you must be so pleased with the block..it looks great, colour combinations are just perfect.
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Loving the look of this project.
I have been dreaming of kittens… wonder what that means. They were mine in the dream, and both were Ginger- one a female, & one a male.
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