Farmer’s Delight in Stages

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Quiltobsession

Another Farmer’s Delight block completely finished.

One that just needs the frame around it to square it up.

And a third which is awaiting its two bands of triangles. I’ve decided to make the remaining blocks all at once. It’s faster, I think, if I make the blocks up to the point of completing the addition of the two rounds of triangles and then, once the remaining 3 or 4 blocks are at that stage, I’ll add the frames to square them up all at once. That’s what I’ve been working on this week.

We ran down to the hospital for a bit on Wednesday afternoon to meet Cameron, who was born late Monday afternoon, and to deliver his little quilt. His father, who is the son of a quilter, wasted no time in making sure Cameron was cozy and warm with the quilt wrapped around him.

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and messages about Lester — they were greatly appreciated and helped enormously. Lester has been slowly recovering. This is his third stroke and the recovery time has been longer this time. As of Thursday night he’s eating on his own, drinking and even playing a bit with kitty toys. It has been a roller coaster of emotions watching him, wondering how well he’ll recover. We took no pictures of him this week until last night, when he was acting more like Lester, our house lion — lounging in the kitty bed near the kitty toy basket. We were, once again, extremely lucky.

There has been good news with Smudge as well. He finally seems to be eating enough on his own. So much so that Thursday was the first day in close to three months that there was no syringe feeding at all. Tuesday and Wednesday were rather tough days with syringe feeding necessary for both of them and then Thursday was like magic — they were both eating on their own. Smudge was having a snooze after eating on Thursday night.

Farmer’s Delight … Again

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Quiltobsession

Along with finishing the quilting of the baby quilt, I started piecing another Farmer’s Delight block on Thursday. The photo above was taken back in April, and there are a couple more blocks that have been done since but this is another of the UFOs that has made its way up the list. It will only take 3 or 4 more blocks to finish it.

Tonight I’ll add the binding to the baby quilt and make the label. Pictures of the finished baby quilt and the newest Farmer’s Delight block will be taken for Monday’s post.

A surprise package arrived from a non-blogging friend that included the book EQ6 Simplified. I was thrilled and can tell already, from just looking through it, that it’s going to make a huge difference. I’ve already picked up a couple of things.

We were absolutely delighted when Smudge decided he wanted his yogourt treat again. He hasn’t evidenced any interest in it for what seems like forever, so watching him go for the yogourt Thursday night made us both feel fabulous! He has been eating a bit more each day on his own, and we’re still struggling to find a food that he likes and that is good for both him and Lester.

Lester seemingly will eat almost every food we offer. There have been a few he’s not liked, but he’s nowhere near as finicky as Smudge.

Farmer’s Delight Block 7

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Quiltobsession

As I had printed all the pieces for the remaining Farmer’s Delight blocks and as I have an idea for setting these together, I decided to work on them while I wait to do the final pressing of Chintz Circles and then baste it. There will be 12 of these blocks in total. The first six can be seen here. I had forgotten how much fun these blocks are to put together. The centre goes together in no time. Stitching the bands of triangles that surround it is fast as can be, lots of continuous stitching makes it fly by!

The back of the centre part:

Lester was resting on the windowsill for a while after watching what was going on out there. The teddy bear in this photo with Lester is a special token of appreciation from the kitties to Mr. Q.O.

Smudge, resting after his yogourt treat Monday night.

Farmer’s Delight Blocks

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Quiltobsession

These blocks have been languishing since I got started on Spring Circles, but are about to get worked on again. I had planned to make 12 of these blocks and have the fabrics for the remaining 6 blocks cut and ready to print. So this weekend, the shapes shall be printed and then I will start working on these again as well as focusing on the Spring Circles. I’m playing with the idea of a pieced sashing for these, but will make that decision when I get the remaining 6 blocks completed.

While we were out on the roof garden taking pictures of quilt blocks, we got this shot of the two condominium towers going up across the street. There are so many condominium high-rise towers in this area that sometimes it feels like we live in an absolute concrete jungle. That’s one of the reasons I’m so grateful for the roof garden and that we face on to it with a tree in front of our living room window. Once the leaves on the tree have come out we barely notice all the concrete that surrounds us.

It was a gloriously sunny day on Thursday, although somewhat cool in the morning. Lester was in his usual spot by the window.

While Smudge was posing for the camera, as usual.

Farmer’s Delight Beginning

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Quiltobsession

Now that the Olympics are over and I’ve put the spools aside until Saturday, I’m back to working on the Farmer’s Delight blocks. This is the beginning of the next block. I have the outer strip of triangles to put together then I’ll stitch the two triangle strips together before joining them to the centre. While the block looks quite complex it is, thanks to Inklingo, amazingly quick and easy to put together. All the triangles in this block have a curve of some sort on one edge. When I’m putting the triangle strips together, it’s just lots and lots of lovely continuous stitching. This shot shows the back of the first triangle strip.

Has anyone else been running into problems leaving comments on blogs? I’m finding it impossible to leave comments on 5 or 6 of my favourite Blogger/Blogspot blogs. It started out with just one last week and now has grown to 5 or 6. I’ve tried using different browsers on both the Mac and the PC, but no success. The one thing I’ve noticed is that when I click on a couple of them, a small window pops up asking whether it’s okay to allow the Lucinda font.

Lester was very busy Tuesday watching a grackle pecking away at the lawn on the roof garden. After watching for quite a while, he had to have a rest on the windowsill. I think we’re back to the windowsill shots for a few months.