flowers | Quilt Obsession

It seems like ages since I’ve stitched any of these little blocks, but on the weekend I got out the box that contains the pieces for them and made 10 more. Now I’m up to 103 of these little blocks. As they finish at 2 3/8″ and, if my calculations are correct, I’ll need about 570 of them to make even a lap quilt. That seems rather daunting. Perhaps these really are meant for a small teddy bear/doll’s quilt.

We’ve been out taking pictures of flowers in the neighbourhood. This is one of the planters that’s at the entrance to our building.

This one is on the other side of the entrance and you can see one of the buildings across the street reflected in the black marble.

There are tons of these little roses at the front of the building. They bloom endlessly throughout the summer and well into the fall.

It sounds like we’re going into an extremely hot week with temperatures in the 90s and humidex readings that will reach upwards of 110. I like hot weather, but the humidity can be a bit hard to take — I think we’ll need gills to breathe by the time we reach mid-week. I wonder how long it will take before they’re asking people to limit their use of electricity during peak hours. While we hardly ever have to put the air conditioning on in the living room, I have a feeling that this week we’ll probably be turning it on rather frequently.

It was hot during the weekend, but nowhere near as hot as it’s going to be. Where was Smudge hanging out? In his kitty bed! I mistakenly assumed that those kitty beds would be too warm during the hot weather, but it seems I was wrong.

Lester, showing his version of a lounge lizard look.

One tiny flower got done on Wednesday for the border of the small quilt, made with .50″ hexagons. But only one. Hopefully next week I can actually make more than 1 or 2 of these little flowers. The list of gardeners making flowers on Wednesdays is growing. Karen’s post here has a list with links to all the gardeners.

On Wednesday, Mr. Q.O. went to a documentary film festival. The screening to which he went was at a theatre that is part of the University of Toronto, which is within walking distance. On his walk, he saw these little flowers.

Along with doing the one small hexagon flower, I finished the second Summer Picnic Dish. As I have learned from doing Spring Circles that joining the blocks as I go makes a big difference for me, I added the half centre edge piece to join the two blocks on point. My plan is to use the green fabric that’s in the blocks for the binding.

I finally got caught up on replying to comments and hope to start reading and commenting on blogs over the next couple of days. I should have been working on Wednesday, but I think the tension of the past few days really caught up with me as I just could not concentrate! I finally gave up on working for the day and played with fabric, patted Smudge a lot and tried to relax. Thank you to all who commented on yesterday’s post — it helped rather a lot!

It was a sunny, windy day at first on Wednesday and then it clouded over and we had our first thunderstorm of the season. Not much of a thunderstorm, but a thunderstorm. Earlier in the day, while it was still sunny, we got this shot of Lester. It really shows his whiskers.