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An Almost Finish

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This has now been quilted. The long-arm quilter did the most beautiful work on it. Unfortunately, we can’t get a good overall shot because of the size of it — it’s 122 by 86 inches. As soon as I get the binding on, we’re taking it to a friend who has a professional photography set-up and getting some good photos.

However, here are a couple of pictures of it — the front and back. The back really shows the quilting design well.


On the Christmas present front, things are progressing. The Wedgwood blue and white table runner is really coming along nicely as is the Seven Sisters variation one.

Lester, our wonderful big Maine Coon kitty, seems to be holding his own but has to have an echo-cardiogram done in December so they can see if his heart function has gotten worse.

Progress Report

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I am making slow progress on this table runner, but the first of the five blocks is complete and all the pieces for the remaining four blocks are printed and cut out, ready to stitch.

The one diamond that is sticking out is going to be the connector to the next block of this runner. I think it will be quite striking, as the coloured fabrics I’m using are all from the same line. I hope it turns out as nicely as I’m hoping.

I am making much better progress on the other table runner I’m working on for Christmas. It is really turning out quite nicely. It’s in a Wedgwood blue and white and will be, I think, finished within the next 10 days to 2 weeks.

In the meantime, we have had a real scare over the past 3 or 4 days. Our eldest kitty, Lester, who will be 9 in December and who has heart disease, threw a clot on the weekend as a result of which his tail was just dragging on the floor. Until today, that is. Today he started to lift it up again and I think the clot must be dissolving. Our vet is researching what meds to put him on next. The thing that I find frightening is that even while on Plavix he threw a clot like this! However, I’m very grateful that he seems to be fine other than the tail issue. Things could have been a whole lot worse.

Indecision

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I keep looking at these and wondering where I want to go with them.

I love how this has turned out so far, but can’t decide on whether to add a bit more and turn it into another doll’s quilt or keep making more of these and turn it into a lap quilt.

Then there’s this:

It’s amazingly easy to stitch. I’m so tempted to keep going around and adding more to it and then perhaps have it as a lap quilt.

Both have been sitting for ages and are, in fact, being used as pieces for an Inklingo demo by another quilter this weekend. I think when they come back I’ll make a concerted effort to finish them off somehow or another.

In the meantime, I have been working on a Christmas gift for a friend made of diamonds and hexagons and other shapes and it’s turning out quite nicely. No pictures though, as I know she reads this.

Strippy shabby is quilted! I heard from the machine quilter this weekend and it’s finished! So it should be home sometime in the next couple of weeks. I guess I had better start getting the miles of binding ready . Perfect timing too — the evenings are getting cooler, so it will be quite nice to be sitting with that quilt draped over me as I put the binding on.

We are having gloriously warm fall weather — days in the low to mid 20s (Celsius) and nights in the low to mid teens. It’s absolutely perfect. I wish the entire year could be like this and we could pass on winter altogether. Next weekend (our Thanksgiving weekend) I think we will drive up a bit north of here to see the leaves as they are generally quite glorious.

Seven Sisters

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Using two different collections of Inklingo, I made these 2 Seven Sisters blocks to get a visual of just how much difference 1/4 inch would make in the various pieces.

The blue and white is the beginning of a blue and white Seven Sisters quilt that I will make using 1″ shapes. The orange and blue? Well, that’s undecided for now — I’m playing with the idea of doing maybe 6 more of these blocks, putting an applique border of some sort around them and that will be a small wall-hanging. One thing is for sure — finer fabrics, such as hand dyes or batiks are the best option for the smaller 3/4″ diamonds. The blue and orange fabrics are wonderful but are a bit thicker than a batik and made for a bit of a pressing adventure!

Finished Project!

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Finally, I finished the ’30s table runner. Every piece in it is an Inklingo shape which made it so easy to do. Actually, I finished it a few weeks ago but didn’t get pictures till last week. I’m quite pleased with it, even with my machine quilting on it which is quite something for me — I am not thrilled with my ability to machine quilt at all, so feeling good about this was great!

We have been enjoying the late summer days lately — love the heat and those wonderful blue skies, but am really shocked at the number of leaves changing colour already. Makes me wonder if we’re in for an early winter.

The kitties have been very busy lately playing with their caterpillar toy. We get such a huge kick out of their antics with this toy that I sometimes wonder who has more fun, them or us!

Inspiration!

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220 little 6-point stars and no idea what to do with them. Then, out of the blue, I decided to turn them into large diamonds of stars and make a large 6-point star. This will only use up 72 of the stars, but it’s a start. I’m thinking of using diamonds made of 1″ diamonds in one border and then perhaps making diamonds from hexagons in a second border. Sort of keep it all diamond-related, I suppose.

On the weekend I decided to try knitting again. I haven’t been able to knit for ages because of arthritis but I bought some Sea Silk and am going to try to make a lace stole/scarf from Victorian Lace Today. The yarn is very soft and has the most wonderful sheen. Tonight I’ll cast on and hope that I can knit for an hour or so every couple of nights. This will be a long-term project, doing one of my favourite things — knitting lace.

Smudge is very possessive about the caterpillar and pretty well always has it within his reach.

Wednesday Woes

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Work is most definitely getting in the way of quilting! I’ll be lucky to do much of anything for about two weeks as we have hit the “It’s almost summer. Got to get this done before holidays start!” hysteria that seems to happen every year. Am a bit surprised this didn’t occur earlier this year, given how incredibly warm it has been here all month. However, it will be two weeks of insanity followed by about two months of very little.

I’ve been playing with another design using the Inklingo 1 and 2-inch hexagons and the star point on Collection 1. Think this one will be a large lap quilt. It goes together incredibly quickly and is a lot of fun.



This is about to get basted and go in the hoop. It’s one of the Pacific Rim 2-fabric appliques and was great fun to work on. The 2-fabric applique patterns all seem so enticing.

This is Smudge, Lester’s half-brother. He is an imp. One of his favourite tricks is to bat at the thread as I’m trying to get it in the needle. Sometimes it’s very frustrating. He has some very odd habits such as meowing incredibly loudly in the middle of the night as he sits on the bedroom windowsill looking out on the roof garden. He’s a definite lap kitty and would, if we would sit still that long, stay on a lap for 2 or 3 hours at a time.