Happy New Year

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Quiltobsession

Merry Christmas

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Quiltobsession

I think I’m going to take a brief blog break until after New Year’s — so Merry Christmas to all. See you in 2013!

More 2013 Projects

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Quiltobsession

One of the PIBs that I am determined to finish in 2013 is the Drunkard’s Path quilt made with the 2″ units. With that in mind, I stitched another 39 of them and now am down to needing only 154 … Continue reading →

Project for 2013

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Quiltobsession

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been busy printing shapes on fabrics and cutting the shapes out and now I have a new PIB – the two-colour quilt for 2013, an orange and white one. But it requires a … Continue reading →

A Tiffany Lamp Block

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Quiltobsession

It felt like an awfully long time since a Tiffany Lamp block had been added to the New York Beauty blocks and curved piecing with spiky bits seemed very appealing last night, so I decided to stitch this one. Which … Continue reading →

And The Winners Are …

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Quiltobsession

Yes, I said winners of my giveaway for the Quilting Gallery 5th Birthday. There are two Inklingo gift certificates being given away! Santa’s elves decided there should be a second winner. While Baxter loves to play with little pieces of … Continue reading →

Harlequin Pastel

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Quiltobsession

Last night, Mr. Q.O. named the quilt I’m making with the 4.5″ Winding Ways blocks. At first I wasn’t too sure about it, but decided I do like it — so it’s now named Harlequin Pastel. I made three more … Continue reading →

Pastel Winding Ways

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Quiltobsession

Last night another PIB came out to play – the 4.5 Winding Ways blocks in hand-dyed fabrics. I can tell that the block placement is going to take almost as long as stitching the blocks. They are such fun to … Continue reading →

Pink and Green Stars

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Quiltobsession

Ever since Inklingo first came out, I’ve been a huge fan of the 60-degree diamonds. When I’m cutting fabrics for other projects, I will often cut off a small piece of fabric just for the 1″ diamonds. Iron the fabric … Continue reading →

19 More Little Blocks

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Quiltobsession

After that marathon of stitching hexagon flowers of many sizes, I needed some nice relaxing curved piecing to do so that’s what I worked on last night – and got 19 more of the little Drunkard’s Path units done. Only … Continue reading →

All of the little stars are now made and last night I started surrounding them with the white squares. It takes less than an hour to get two stars surrounded.

Seams graded and pressed.

There are now 17 of the little stars left to surround with the white squares. From here on out, it’s just nothing but continuous stitching to add the squares, then the connecting red diamonds and octagons and turn this into a finished quilt top. If I can stay focused, and I am pretty intent on doing just that, I could have this finished by the end of next week and be ready to quilt it next weekend.

I may take some time out this weekend and get the binding ready for Candy Stars as well as start printing for the Inklingo Periwinkle reverse mystery quilt. I think I’ve finally decided on the colours I want to work with for the Periwinkle quilt. No big surprise here — it will be pinks, pinks and more pinks. Maybe a mauve thrown in for a little relief from the pink. Maybe. Lessons 1 to 4 are available, free, at the All About Inklingo blog.

If you’re here to see who won the giveaway from the April Showers post, the winner will be announced later this afternoon after Baxter picks a winner.

“Mum’s Making Stars” is the title of today’s ‘toon.

As we were setting up to take pictures of the two little blue stars, he was right there just waiting for his photo to be taken because, after all, there is nothing that we could possibly want to photograph other than him!

Two Blue Candy Stars