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Indecision

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I keep looking at these and wondering where I want to go with them.

I love how this has turned out so far, but can’t decide on whether to add a bit more and turn it into another doll’s quilt or keep making more of these and turn it into a lap quilt.

Then there’s this:

It’s amazingly easy to stitch. I’m so tempted to keep going around and adding more to it and then perhaps have it as a lap quilt.

Both have been sitting for ages and are, in fact, being used as pieces for an Inklingo demo by another quilter this weekend. I think when they come back I’ll make a concerted effort to finish them off somehow or another.

In the meantime, I have been working on a Christmas gift for a friend made of diamonds and hexagons and other shapes and it’s turning out quite nicely. No pictures though, as I know she reads this.

Strippy shabby is quilted! I heard from the machine quilter this weekend and it’s finished! So it should be home sometime in the next couple of weeks. I guess I had better start getting the miles of binding ready . Perfect timing too — the evenings are getting cooler, so it will be quite nice to be sitting with that quilt draped over me as I put the binding on.

We are having gloriously warm fall weather — days in the low to mid 20s (Celsius) and nights in the low to mid teens. It’s absolutely perfect. I wish the entire year could be like this and we could pass on winter altogether. Next weekend (our Thanksgiving weekend) I think we will drive up a bit north of here to see the leaves as they are generally quite glorious.

Seven Sisters

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Using two different collections of Inklingo, I made these 2 Seven Sisters blocks to get a visual of just how much difference 1/4 inch would make in the various pieces.

The blue and white is the beginning of a blue and white Seven Sisters quilt that I will make using 1″ shapes. The orange and blue? Well, that’s undecided for now — I’m playing with the idea of doing maybe 6 more of these blocks, putting an applique border of some sort around them and that will be a small wall-hanging. One thing is for sure — finer fabrics, such as hand dyes or batiks are the best option for the smaller 3/4″ diamonds. The blue and orange fabrics are wonderful but are a bit thicker than a batik and made for a bit of a pressing adventure!

Finished Project!

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Finally, I finished the ’30s table runner. Every piece in it is an Inklingo shape which made it so easy to do. Actually, I finished it a few weeks ago but didn’t get pictures till last week. I’m quite pleased with it, even with my machine quilting on it which is quite something for me — I am not thrilled with my ability to machine quilt at all, so feeling good about this was great!

We have been enjoying the late summer days lately — love the heat and those wonderful blue skies, but am really shocked at the number of leaves changing colour already. Makes me wonder if we’re in for an early winter.

The kitties have been very busy lately playing with their caterpillar toy. We get such a huge kick out of their antics with this toy that I sometimes wonder who has more fun, them or us!

Inspiration!

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220 little 6-point stars and no idea what to do with them. Then, out of the blue, I decided to turn them into large diamonds of stars and make a large 6-point star. This will only use up 72 of the stars, but it’s a start. I’m thinking of using diamonds made of 1″ diamonds in one border and then perhaps making diamonds from hexagons in a second border. Sort of keep it all diamond-related, I suppose.

On the weekend I decided to try knitting again. I haven’t been able to knit for ages because of arthritis but I bought some Sea Silk and am going to try to make a lace stole/scarf from Victorian Lace Today. The yarn is very soft and has the most wonderful sheen. Tonight I’ll cast on and hope that I can knit for an hour or so every couple of nights. This will be a long-term project, doing one of my favourite things — knitting lace.

Smudge is very possessive about the caterpillar and pretty well always has it within his reach.

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.

Wednesday Woes

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Work is most definitely getting in the way of quilting! I’ll be lucky to do much of anything for about two weeks as we have hit the “It’s almost summer. Got to get this done before holidays start!” hysteria that seems to happen every year. Am a bit surprised this didn’t occur earlier this year, given how incredibly warm it has been here all month. However, it will be two weeks of insanity followed by about two months of very little.

I’ve been playing with another design using the Inklingo 1 and 2-inch hexagons and the star point on Collection 1. Think this one will be a large lap quilt. It goes together incredibly quickly and is a lot of fun.



This is about to get basted and go in the hoop. It’s one of the Pacific Rim 2-fabric appliques and was great fun to work on. The 2-fabric applique patterns all seem so enticing.

This is Smudge, Lester’s half-brother. He is an imp. One of his favourite tricks is to bat at the thread as I’m trying to get it in the needle. Sometimes it’s very frustrating. He has some very odd habits such as meowing incredibly loudly in the middle of the night as he sits on the bedroom windowsill looking out on the roof garden. He’s a definite lap kitty and would, if we would sit still that long, stay on a lap for 2 or 3 hours at a time.

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.