This block was finished Friday night. Each block is going to be in a different pink fabric so the sashing and binding for this will be important — I’m playing with the idea of a pink and charcoal stripe if I can find one that works, but that’s far off in the future.

I even love the back of these blocks. Pressing them is amazingly simple — start with one seam intersection and they all follow. I need to go over a couple of spots on this block again, but it lies so wonderfully flat once pressed this way!

Lester, in one of his “thinker” poses.

And a huge treat for us — the two boys curled up together. We rarely see them do this.

I’m off to the Creativ Festival today and will be on the lookout for some more pink FQ’s for the Snow Crystal blocks. No cameras are allowed, so I won’t be coming home with pictures to share.

Remember this Snow Crystal block that I made when testing the new Inklingo free 4.5″ LeMoyne Star collection? Well, there are going to be more of them! Stay tuned! This may well be the beginning of my pink and white quilt. I’m doing a one-on-one swap with Martha, another Inklingo’er, of the pieces for these wonderful little Snow Crystals and can’t wait! Rather fitting, I suppose — getting ready to do Snow Crystal blocks as we go towards winter. 🙂

Yet another shot of Lester on — where else? — the windowsill.

And Smudge — look at the size of that paw!

First came the 18 little GFG’s.

Then I began joining them all together. I love the effect of the little flowers in the border and the room in the centre will be perfect for all the names and places of residence of those involved in the group quilt. The label will finish at about 13.5 x 18.5 inches. The pattern came from the Inklingo .50″ hexagon collection.

I thought I’d gotten away with it — but my photo helper/fabric biter had to make an appearance! I managed to whisk away the partially completed frame of GFG flowers before he could bite any of them.

I can’t believe how hard it is to get a good photograph at this time of year! None of these colours are true at all. Guess we need to get a proper light set-up. When the label is finished, I’ll try to get a better shot of it.

Lester, the other night. I suppose he was making sure that Cappy wouldn’t escape while he was sleeping!

This is the past week’s progress on Insanity. These little hexagon diamonds are quick as can be to put together, just under an hour for each one. I’ve been working in a reporter’s office as a registrar a few days the past week or so, and I take one of these with me to stitch on during the lunch break — great way to spend the lunch break.

I still have about 100 charms to print but that will be done by the end of this week. I can usually get about 50 or 60 of them printed in no time.

Last night was my first meeting of the quilt guild. It was a bit overwhelming — huge, huge guild with 465 members! Thankfully, I finally met Samadhi, to whom I am very grateful for her encouragement to join the guild. There was a great trunk show by Sherri Hisey — absolutely gorgeous selection of quilts including some fabulous barn finds!

I love this shot of Lester — he looks quite lost in thought. It was probably just before he pounced on a toy!

Last night, after printing and cutting out another stack of the little hexagons, I was compelled to print out one charm of the diamonds. I couldn’t resist making two stars from the new .50″ diamond Inklingo collection. The seams are so short that it truly is one load of stitches on the needle and you’re done. One could make a lot of these stars in next to no time. I think I made the two of them in less than 20 minutes. Didn’t time it, but I will next time. From a 5″ charm, I had enough diamonds for 3 of these little stars.

Now I’m thinking of making a miniature Seven Sisters quilt using these. They are such fun to stitch.

Lester, one of the few times we’ve managed to get a shot of him when his ruff didn’t look awful. We can comb and comb and comb him but as we comb he is licking and chewing on his ruff so that it looks as though he’s never groomed! Or wandering about with it partially stuck in his mouth. Very goofy — yet another reason he is so well-loved!