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Orange Blossom

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These wonderfully gentle curves and the variations one can make with the shapes have me hooked!! This one has been named Orange Blossom. The effect is fabulous and looks much more complicated than it really is. There are four more different blocks I’m going to make using the various shapes and these fabrics.

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Our kitty-sitting of Winnie is over for now. We’re going to miss her but have asked for and been granted visitation rights. 🙂

Lester curled up with an assortment of buddies . This one almost could go in the “find the kitty’s head” category.

Smudge on the windowsill. We’re supposed to be getting snow this week. I’m hoping it misses us, but I suppose the kitties might like to watch a few snowflakes fly by the windows.


Alabama Beauty

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As soon as I saw the shapes for this in the new Orange Peel Inklingo collection, I knew I had to use the fabric I’ve been looking at for so long and wondering what I’d make with it. I’m going to make, I think, 8 of these blocks for a table runner. It was amazingly quick and effortless to put together.

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Today is our last day taking care of Winnie as our friends return from their vacation late this evening. We’re asking for visitation rights! I’m going to miss spending time with her.

The grackles were back swooping about on Thursday. This picture only shows a very few of them perched in one of the trees.

The cats weren’t as impressed. It was a very overcast day with rain on and off. Lester got comfortable in his kitty bed and ignored the grackles.

And Smudge curled up on the couch with a teddy bear.


Pink Ice Block #19 Beginnings

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I had started this Pink Ice block before the Inklingo Orange Peel collection was released. I’m absolutely fascinated by the Alabama Beauty block and plan on printing the pieces I need for it later today and hopefully getting it pieced tonight. Then I’ll finish this Pink Ice block.


Tonight will be the last night we’re taking care of Winnie, so I plan on spending some extra time upstairs with her. She is such a character that I know we’ll miss being around her as much. Perhaps we’ll have to ask for daily visiting rights, particularly when it comes time to feed her dinner.

Lester on the windowsill on a rather overcast day.


And Smudge also on the windowsill.

Improved 9-Patch

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A new Inklingo collection came out yesterday, which includes the shapes needed for Orange Peel, Alabama Beauty, Eiffel Tower, Improved 9-patch and others. Of course, I couldn’t resist. And decided to make an Improved 9-patch in green and red with some white — perhaps the start of a Christmas quilt? It finishes at 8″.


The curves are so gentle that it’s a breeze to stitch. The matching points make it an absolute joy. And it presses beautifully too.


Tuesday afternoon, the boys were very busy watching out the window. Very, very busy.

What were they watching? What seemed like a hundred grackles swooping about, pecking away at the lawn, sitting in the trees and one which, for a moment, was pecking at the window. I was beginning to think we were in the midst of a remake of Hitchcock’s The Birds!


Pink Ice Block #18

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… is done. The blocks finish at 9″. I’m thinking another 12 and then it will be time to start auditioning fabrics for sashing. Although I think it’s probably not something I can accomplish, I’d love to get the remaining 12 blocks put together before the end of December.


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Another rather overcast day and more sleepy kitties. Lester in the kitty bed:


And Smudge on the couch:


Spool Blocks Started

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A quick half hour on the weekend and I had printed enough of all the shapes I need for a small teddy bear quilt made up of the spool blocks done. The blocks finish at an odd size — about 4.8″. I’m going to use a set of 5 x 4 for this little quilt.


Unusually for me, I decided to use muslin and, as I had a couple of charm packs that I thought were perfect teddy bear colours, I used those to print the half long hexagons and squares. I can get exactly 9 of the 1″ squares printed on each charm.

There’s some wastage with the half long hexagons on the charms as I only get 3 from each charm, but I have plans for the third of each fabric.


And here’s the first block done. It has been a long time since I used muslin. While I think it’s perfect for these blocks in a teddy bear quilt, I remember now why I don’t use it more often! It seems much thicker than the other cottons.

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We have been spending a lot of time upstairs with Winnie, which has meant less stitching time. She has made huge strides. I can pick her up, pat her and now she jumps up to sit beside Mr. Q.O. I’m calling him the cat whisperer.

It was a rather overcast weekend and the kitties caught up on their sleep. First Lester, all curled up in one of the kitty beds:

And Smudge sprawled on the love seat:

Spool Centres

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The spool blocks I mentioned yesterday have me fascinated. I’m thinking that my spools will have some very colourful 1″ square centres. I have these 1″ squares all ready to use:

And these:


Now I’m thinking that each spool block will be of a different thread colour, as shown by its centre. Between spending time upstairs with Winnie and a bit more work than I had expected, I’m not getting much stitching done this week but the planning and dreaming about quilts is fun! The little spool blocks will be fun to have to pick up and stitch.

Lester on the windowsill. We’re still having amazingly mild weather for late November. I am not complaining. The longer it stays mild, the better. If we don’t see snow before January I’ll be happy.

And Smudge making friends (?) with a stuffed toy bunnie:


Planning & Dreaming of Quilts To Be

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While another Snow Crystal block got started Tuesday, not enough was done to show. Ideas for other little quilts keep creeping into my mind these last few days. There’s a fabulous spools block that I can make using shapes from the Inklingo Lite 4 collection — you can see a sample here — and I’m sure I’ll make a teddy bear quilt with those. Not so sure about what fabrics yet, but I’m leaning towards maybe some taupes with a muslin.



There’s these fabrics that I know I’ve shown before. I keep looking at them, knowing I want to do something with them but I didn’t have a clue what. At least up until now I didn’t. I’m leaning towards a small quilt comprised of some sort of star blocks using these fabrics. The black fabric will be probably the setting fabric while the stars are made from the red, blue and green.
Then I come to these — all these glorious pinks and stripes. Again, I’m not sure what I want to make with these and they probably won’t all be in the same quilt but I love looking at them!


I haven’t made a Christmas quilt up until now. But the idea of using greens and reds and making larger, 12″ Snow Crystal blocks for a Christmas quilt is really capturing my imagination. Perhaps I’ll make one by Christmas 2010. Of course, new Inklingo collections will undoubtedly come out and I’ll probably decide on a different pattern but I think a Christmas quilt is definitely in my near future as a project.

This has to be my favourite photo of Lester right now. The look on his face is so expressive!
Smudge showing just how well he can relax:
And little Winnie. She has definitely adapted to us taking care of her. She purrs now, lets us pat her, even does the “happy paw” thing of curling her paws when she’s being patted. She gets a bit of chicken with her dinner every evening and has the funniest habit when eating it. She makes a noise that I cannot describe. The first time I heard it, I couldn’t believe it!! It’s very difficult to not laugh. Mr. Q.O. shot some video of her. Now it’s a matter of editing it and figuring out how to upload and embed it in a blog post.

Snow Crystal Block

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Another of the pink and white snow crystals is done.


The more I look at the various pinks I’ve used for these blocks, the more I’m thinking I may have to forget making this a pink and white quilt and use some other colour — perhaps a green — for the sashing. I’m still not decided on that. I may even decide to not use sashing and then keep it as a pink and white quilt. That decision doesn’t have to be made until all the blocks are done, though, so I’ll just keep making the blocks and then play.

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The after effects from H1N1 are really frustrating. I get up in the morning, think I feel better, start to do things and rapidly run out of energy and strength. Monday it even got to the point that reading or writing e-mail seemed like an enormous task. There’s a lingering faint nausea from it that comes and goes. We were told 6 to 8 weeks before we’d feel back to normal. I guess they were right.

Lester:

And Smudge:

Teddy Bear Quilt Beginnings

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I made the first of these blocks when the Inklingo tumbler collection came out a few months back. I’ve now made a few more and have the beginnings of another teddy bear quilt. The blocks finish at 6″. These aren’t pressed yet, but I’ll do that this week. I’m going to make another 6 blocks and then set it together, perhaps with a small border.


Cat sitting Winnie was an eye-opener on the weekend. She is letting me pat her, even will let me pick her up — sometimes. When I was getting her food ready, she was doing figure 8’s around my legs. That was a huge step! She really responds to Mr. Q.O.’s voice — it’s interesting to watch her when he’s talking to her. Her eyes get huge! We’re going to try to get a picture of her this week.

Lester draped over the arm of the chair:

And Smudge, very alert on the couch with some friends: