Olympic Stitching

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Quiltobsession

… didn’t seem to equal much getting finished. One Farmer’s Delight block. So much for hoping to get them all done during the Olympics but at least I managed to get all the fabrics cut and ready to print for the last 7 blocks.

And a few more of the first block that will be in the Jewels at Night table runner. But that’s about it. The ideas were flying fast and furious though and my notebook has a lot of notes for the future, including a setting for the Tropical Punch blocks.

Am I complaining? No! It was an absolutely magical 17 days watching all the events and, in particular, the Canadian athletes. Wow — 14 gold medals for Canada!! Although I am not a hockey fan, even I watched some of the gold medal game. When the audience joined in the singing of the Canadian anthem after the hockey medals presentation, I had goosebumps. The noise in downtown Toronto carried on well into the night as those celebrating the hockey win congregated and part of one of the main streets was closed to vehicular traffic to accommodate them.

Congratulations to Vancouver and the Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee — I thought it was absolutely fantastic. So did our little Olympic team. The beaver and moose are thrilled to have been represented in the closing ceremonies. This little moose even has his own version of a gold medal!

Smudge and Lester did their very best to win lounging awards. I think they did a very good job. First Smudge:

And then Lester:

I’ve got all the posts from my old blog moved over and am going to work on getting the categorization and tags done so that they’re actually helpful. The way they are now is pretty hit and miss as I wasn’t too conscientious about categorizing them. I’m really glad you’ve come over to visit here and hope you come back!

Jewels at Night

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Quiltobsession

… is the working name for this, which will no doubt be changed. I’ve done a few of these blocks so far, each of which finish at 5″. There’s another block that goes in the design. I have the fabric cut and ironed to freezer paper so I can print my shapes on the back of the fabrics tomorrow for the other block.

This is the back of one of the blocks:

It seems winter isn’t done with us. They’re forecasting more snow Thursday, Friday and into the weekend.

The kitties have been taking turns guarding the toy basket, it seems. First Lester who, as he’s a very big cat, sometimes spills out of the bed:

Then Smudge, who was practising his sprawl. Interestingly, none of the toys have been taken out of the toy basket yet.

New Project Beginnings

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Quiltobsession

On the weekend I kept getting an idea for a new project and pulled some pieces of fabric for it. Trying to resist this idea proved to be impossible — when I fell asleep I was thinking about it, I woke up thinking about it and finally had to give in and start it! I had these 7″ batik squares which are perfect for it — particularly with the black and white fabric as the background. Some of the batiks are too dark and won’t get used in this piece, and others will be added but this is a start. Over the weekend and on Monday I used a couple of the Inklingo collections to print some of the shapes on to the fabric I’m using. Not much stitching has been done though I can’t pay attention to anything but watching the skaters when the ice dance competition is on.

Sunday night a migraine hit. I had no idea we were going to wake up to this on Monday but it explains the headache which was finally starting to ease off Monday night.

This is the first time this winter that we’ve had snow on the roof garden. Thankfully we’re almost at the end of February, so know that it can’t last long.

I am so excited about our win in the ice dancing competition. I thought Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir were absolutely fantastic, as were the U.S. team who won the silver. Just watching both teams gave me goosebumps. When Virtue and Moir won and the medals were presented, I had tears in my eyes. I have always loved figure skating, and the dance competition in particular.

We got new kitty beds for Smudge and Lester. Within seconds of putting them out, they were both curled up and working on their lounging form. Smudge hasn’t had a chance yet to work on this one to turn it into a kitty oval.