Remember this pretty basket block made with Drunkard’s Path blocks? I made the blocks over five years ago and they sat. Mostly because, while I love the design which I saw in an older Australian Patchwork & Quilting magazine, the … Continue reading
Seems I missed a week altogether, but now I have another Drunkard’s Path basket block to add to my first one. I don’t seem to be moving very quickly on making these, which surprises me as I normally churn out little … Continue reading
That’s what I used for the Drunkard’s Path basket block – a batik and an Asian shirting print. I wasn’t sure if they’d play together nicely, but I was determined to try my idea out. This is absolutely not what … Continue reading
While I had the design wall up, I decided to put the 4 basket blocks up. I now have a plan for the centre block, which won’t be another basket, and the borders for this. I think I have just enough of the floral print to make it work . I’m going to spend some time this weekend working out exactly how much I need for the borders and the centre block and then take it from there.
The lesson I learned from this was that when I fall in love with a fabric like this one I really do need to buy somewhat more than I think I’ll need, particularly as I had no firm plan in mind when I bought this but rather a vague idea.
It snowed. A lot. All day Wednesday. So much for me thinking spring was getting closer. It seems like a very heavy snow as the tree branches and shrubs out on the roof garden seem to be groaning under the weight of it. Some of the bears decided it was time to get their winter clothes back on. When the picture was taken, there were fairly large snowflakes flying by the window.
I’m not sure if Lester is winking in this shot or just not quite awake.
Smudge was relaxing.
Summer Picnic Dish is one of the quilts, along with Farmer’s Delight, that I want to finish the piecing of this summer. Hmm, am I setting my sights too high with all these things I want to finish? Probably, but this one does grow quickly — the blocks are 12″ which is, for me, huge. I love putting this together as it’s so easy to get perfect arcs and points with the Inklingo Pickle Dish collection. At the moment, I’m debating whether to make it a lap quilt or a bed-sized quilt.
On Barbara Brackman’s blog yesterday I saw an absolutely fabulous pattern — a marriage of clamshells and pickle dish! If you go here, scroll down a bit in the post and see the design in different fabrics. What a great design that would be to put together. Wonderful curved piecing and triangles. What more could one want?
Another quilt I definitely want to finish this summer is the Lucy Boston Patchwork of the Crosses. I’m going to try stitching the cream hexagons that surround each block by machine as that might make the goal a bit more attainable. I’ll still be joining them to each block by hand, but that goes quite quickly. Then all I’ve got to do is figure out what I want to use for the centre squares in between the blocks and add the outer edging pieces. This picture only shows a few of the blocks — there are quite a few more.
The Drunkard’s Path baskets are something else I want to finish fairly quickly. It will be a large wallhanging. I just need to sort out the centre block for it, which is different from the one in the picture. It won’t take long to do the printing and piecing.
Also on the list to, at the very least, spend some time stitching: blue and white Seven Sisters blocks, pink and white Pink Ice snow crystal blocks, the Harpsichord Quilt, more klosjes, the hexagon stripe quilt — oh, the list is endless!! I wonder which will be finished first!
Thursday was another lovely warm day. We wandered up to a fruit and vegetable store and picked up some fabulous Ontario wild blueberries and Ontario raspberries. The flavour of both is just incredible — nothing comes close. I’m going to try freezing some of our raspberries to use in smoothies in the winter.
Lester had windowsill time on Thursday.
As did Smudge.
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