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Jane Austen Patchwork Collection
Hexagon Collections
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Red Delicious Apple Core

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These are turning out so nicely I can’t believe it!! I love the look of the black and white. Why Red Delicious? Because on every row — somewhere — there will be a red apple core. It may be in the place of a black piece or a white piece. There will be no rhyme or reason to it; totally haphazard.


Look how flat the seams lie after pressing!

With the stitching lines and matching points so accurately positioned, it’s dead easy to stitch. And a whole lot of fun!!! I had about 20 of them stitched together in no time. Of course, my idea that this would be a small quilt went out the window. This will be a good-sized lap quilt, I’m sure. I’m equally sure that I will be making a few apple core quilts. There’s something very soothing about stitching a perfect curve like this — and these ones are so simple to do!!

Here you can see the first of the red apples.

This shot totally cracks me up — I have no idea what they were looking at out there on the roof garden, but something clearly had caught their attention.



Apple Cores!!

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Last night I got about 30 pieces of fabric ready to print and this morning, as I had my coffee, I printed them all with the little apple core shapes from the new Inklingo collection. I’m making a small black and white with a few accents of red apple core quilt.

Curved piecing is something I absolutely love. So I was really excited when the apple core collection was released yesterday.

I printed one sheet with a darker ink colour than I would normally have chosen so that I could get this picture. With the matching points on the stitching line, putting these apple cores together is going to be pure joy; exactly the type of stitching I need this weekend — simple, mindless fun!! This will be my pick-up project when I just want to stitch something for the pure fun of it.



The snow has begun to fall, it’s quite chilly and I couldn’t be happier! Time to put a good movie on and settle in for some fabulous stitching.

There are worksheets in the new collection as well, so I’ve printed out the 25% size one and will use it to plan the placement of the red apple cores. Once I decide on the placement, I’ll know how many of long-half and short-half cores to print so that I can have a straight edge on the sides.

As usual, while I was printing, Lester was on the windowsill watching the printer. It is so funny to watch him watch it. Then he saw the little notifier icon from my e-mail program jumping up and down at the bottom of the screen and he almost had his nose on the screen. DH is thinking of getting a new Mac. If he does, I’m half tempted to put his older one on a level where Lester could get real close and see if he figures out moving the mouse actually does something.


Surprise in the Mail, Apple Cores and Good News

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We came home from the doctor’s appointment (good news — more further down), checked the mail and what a welcome surprise!!

Martha, a fellow Inklingo’er with whom I’ve been swapping pink diamonds for the Snow Crystals, sent me this wonderful string of teeny, tiny lights for the hexagon Christmas tree! I’m going to wash the tree this weekend and then string some lights on it. Christmas may be over — but this is something I cannot leave until next year!!

Not only did Martha send the lights, but also these amazing little decorations — there’s one big gold star that will become the star on top of our tree. There are all sorts of amazing little decorations in here! I can’t wait to start playing with decorating!! Finally, a tree I can decorate to my heart’s content and one that kitties can’t destroy. :-))


Then I find out all about the new Inklingo collection for the Apple Core pattern. I love curved piecing, absolutely love it!! I’ve wanted to do an apple core quilt and I can’t wait to print some shapes and do a small apple core doll’s quilt.

DH’s doctor says he’s 2/3rds of the way to being over the infection. Apparently this particular antibiotic has a very long half-life and will continue to do its work even after he has taken the last dose. He goes back to the doctor sometime late next week just to make sure. In the meantime, he’s going to speak to his cardiologist and see about a referral through him to a new dentist.

Lester, our technology kitty, waiting for the printer to start. 🙂 Maybe we’ll get a picture of him tonight watching the printer print. It’s really quite comical to see. He’s definitely our techno-cat. Loves the DVD opening and shutting, loves the printers printing.


Butterfly Stars

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The first two butterfly hexagons are connected by stars. This design is going to be a work in progress as I’m thinking about what to use to join the rows. Not sure yet, but when I get the first row put together I’ll play with the shapes a bit and see. My thought is that a little open white space between rows of stars and butterfly hexagons may be a nice resting spot for the eyes. Hopefully by the end of the weekend I’ll have a decision made on that.

Lester yesterday. I love it when he gets these funny looks on his face — he’s very very expressive!

And Smudge with all his paws tucked under. I find it fascinating to watch the different expressions these two exhibit over the course of a day.


We’re off to the doctor. DH has an infection which we think was caused by a dental hygienist. He is a heart patient with a pacemaker/defibrillator. The hygienist tried to insist she could use the Cavitron to clean his teeth, even though the heart clinic was adamant that a Cavitron not be used as it can turn off the pacemaker/defibrillator. He almost had to physically restrain her from using it. She grudgingly went to cleaning by hand, got rather rough and it seems to have set up an infection. He saw his doctor on Monday, was put on an incredibly strong antibiotic but it doesn’t seem to have worked.

Butterflies and Snow

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Last night I started on the little butterfly hexagons for the stars. These are 2″ hexagons from the very first Inklingo collection. I’ve used an inexpensive white muslin behind the white on white on which the hexagons are printed and love the fact that that will successfully stop any shadowing through of the threads.

Hopefully, tonight I’ll get at least one or two hexagons joined with the stars.

What did we wake up to? Snow. Lots and lots of snow. It’ still snowing. It started snowing around 10:00 last night and it is still coming down. It’s pretty but I think it’s more than we were expecting. Right now, the snowflakes that are falling are huge! True winter wonderland. The trees now have that dipped in icing sugar look.



Lester on the windowsill.

Smudge, in one of his endless poses.


First Hand Quilting Project for 2009

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This little piece will be my first hand quilting project for the year. It was made with the pieces from the free downloadable Inklingo collection. I’m using a silk batt so I know this will be an absolute joy to quilt. It’s a little piece but it’s a nice way to ease into some larger quilts that need to be quilted.

I’m planning to use a dark fabric for the binding to finish it off. I’m not really sure what we’ll do with it, but I like it the size that it is. Perhaps it’s destined to become a wall hanging.

Lester in his favourite spot in the winter:

And Smudge — if you look closely I think you can see that his fur is wet. He has the oddest drinking habits. Rather than lap up a bit of water, he puts his whole face into the water bowl and then, when he’s dripping wet, catch the water on his tongue as it rolls down off his fur. He has done this since he was a kitten and it never fails to amuse us. I often wonder if he’d actually go in if we had a small wading pool for him.


Stars, Stars and a Christmas Frog

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These little stars are multiplying at a rapid pace! I love how quickly they go together thanks to the perfect stitching lines of Inklingo! The Christmas Frog, who will feature in a teddy bear story soon, just had to get in the picture.

While I’m stitching the little stars, plans for at least one large quilt this year are swimming through my mind. I’m definitely going to make the Jane Austen quilt and am debating now whether to do it in shabby chic with a faded mint green dot on white fabric for the sashing or in Orientals.

I have a piece of an absolutely gorgeous Oriental print that would be perfect for the centre medallion and oodles of this fabric that I would be tempted to use for the sashing with all sorts of other Oriental prints.


This fabric has the most glorious feel and is an absolute joy to hand piece. I would like to make the JA quilt by hand so that is an important consideration as many of the Oriental prints have a metallic element to them which can make them a bit more difficult to stitch.

This is a picture of the sashing fabric with a couple of pieces of Oriental prints that were on my sewing table. I really love the richness of this. It will be busy, no question, but there’s something about it that really appeals to me.

We had a lovely quiet New Year’s at home. What did the cats do? Snooze! Smudge snoozing:

Lester snoozing:


Little Stars

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We found out at Christmas that there will be a new addition to my cousin’s family in April. I’ve decided to make a baby quilt using little stars and small stitchery blocks. The little stars go together so quickly — I had these made in the space of a couple of evenings. The little stitchery blocks will be, I think, butterflies — but I’m going to look at a few other design ideas before making a final decision.

Pop back in on Thursday, New Year’s Day, for the Whirl into Winter giveaway. There are about 60 bloggers participating and it will be, I think, great fun.


I love this shot of Smudge — he is so intently watching something out there!

Lester having an afternoon snooze.


No Snow but a Snow Crystal

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After all that snow we had before Christmas, we had a few mild days with a lot of rain and there is no snow left. It was quite lovely to have a white Christmas, which is somewhat unusual for us now, but I’d rather not get any more snow this winter!

In honour of no snow, I made another Snow Crystal. There are now 13 of these blocks done. They finish at 9″. I’m debating just how many to make. There are all the bits and pieces printed and cut out to make another 12 blocks. How many more after that? Who knows! I may make two pink and white Snow Crystal quilts.

Lester appears lost in thought — or perhaps about to pounce on a toy.

Smudge very intently staring at something out on the roof garden. We have seen a squirrel the last couple of days, so I’m thinking he may have been squirrel watching.


The Jane Austen Quilt

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I got the most fantastic, fabulous, wonderful Inklingo collection today — the new one with all the measurements and templates to make an exact replica of the Jane Austen quilt. All the odd-sized diamonds and the sashing, all the tiny border diamonds, the centre medallion diamond, the whole thing!!

I’ve often looked at the various patterns that have come out over the years that were replicas, to one degree or another, of the original Jane Austen quilt but never saw one that I wanted to make other than Quilted Diamonds — until now, that is. All the information to make this by hand or machine or a hybrid of both techniques, all the templates for the exact-sized diamonds and sashing; everything I need.
The wealth of knowledge in this collection is incredible. If you’re a Jane Austen fan, you will love this! Lots of detail about the quilt and its construction. The collection is on sale — and there are gift certificates available if you want to drop a hint to Santa.

Now I’m thinking a variety of pinks of different intensities for the diamonds and, if I can find it, a white fabric with very small black pin dots for the sashing. I have visions of stitching this with either the Pride & Prejudice or Sense & Sensibility movie playing.

The boys, given that this is about something related to Jane Austen, are doing their bookend imitation. First Smudge at one end of the windowsill:

Then Lester at the other end: