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Peonies

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The deluge of work I expected arrived and haven’t had a chance to do much stitching at all this week, but am getting close to finishing piecing the table runner. I think by the time tomorrow night comes around, I will have the piecing finished and can get it basted and start quilting it.

Once the workload eases up a bit, I plan to put together a small quilt using these half hexagon blocks in ’30s prints.

Peonies are my favourite flowers and, when they’re in season I make a point of having a few in a vase. The smell, every time we walk past the piano where the vase is, is just incredible.


This is our little cat, Smokey, who had some serious health problems last summer and finally left us in early September. She was a tiny cat, only about 7 pounds, but she ruled the roost — the two 25-pound boys definitely were no match. She loved it when her basket was placed on a chair — she could watch over the antics of the boys. She had the loudest voice too — we think she may have had some Siamese in her background.

Monday Musings

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Work is definitely getting in the way of my quilting plans. I would much rather be stitching than working! Still working on the ’30s hexagon, half hexagon surprise and hope to have it finished by the end of this week. This is it so far:


As I work on that, I’m pondering a setting for all these little 6-point stars from the first Inklingo swap. Do I wait and make more from the next swap and end up with a bed-sized quilt, hopefully in some sort of colour graduation, or figure out a setting and use these ones for a totally scrappy lap quilt? I’m leaning towards saving them and using them with those from the next swap.

And then there are the batiks for the oval applique quilt I’m planning. As I use the backbasting applique technique, this is the perfect outdoor stitching project this summer. I won’t have to worry about pieces flying off if it’s breezy.


Lester and Smudge share lap time when I’m stitching in the evenings, although sometimes they get a little too intent on catching the thread as I pull it through. This is our wonderful golden Maine Coon boy, Lester.

He had a small stroke caused by a heart condition about 2 months ago and is on heart meds now, so we’re hoping that the meds will keep his heart condition under control and that he’ll be with us for a very long time. He is a big lovey of a cat — absolutely adores attention and draping himself over my lap in the evenings. In the winter it’s great, but during a heatwave?? That’s when we need to turn up the a/c!

Beginning

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I never thought I’d be blogging, but what do you know? This will be the start. It will be mostly about all things quilt with some kitty stuff and who knows what else thrown in.

Strippy shabby chic is almost pressed now. It’s big — 85 x 120 and is composed of 3,245 pieces all printed using Inklingo and was an absolute joy to put together. As soon as I finish pressing it, off it goes to the long-arm quilter to be quilted.  I can’t wait to see it.

Spent most of today working on a surprise for a friend using hexagons and half hexagons printed using Inklingo printed templates. Yesterday was a day of prepping for a couple of quilts — one applique in all batiks and hand dyes, which I think will be fabulous when it’s done, and one for hand piecing in all ’30s prints.

It was a glorious day — nice and warm, albeit a bit humid. We watched some of the U.S. Open golf tournament — mostly watching the cats watching the balls on the fairways. That is too funny.