A 2-inch 60-degree diamond was one of the three new Inklingo KISS (Keep It Simple, Stitchers) collections that came out on the weekend, and I had to make a couple of stars using them. The 2-inch diamonds seem absolutely enormous to me, particularly after working with the .75″ squares in the Harpsichord Quilt block Sunday. This will be a long-term project, in that when I print some fabrics for either the Patchwork of the Crosses quilt or the Harpsichord Quilt I will print some other fabrics with enough for a couple of stars. Given their size, and the fact I plan to join them with a 2-inch hexagon, these will go together very quickly into a lap quilt.

This will likely end up quite a scrappy quilt. First I made a blue one:

Then a yellow one. Perhaps I’ll make a scrappy blue and yellow quilt — I have thought about making a blue and yellow quilt for a while.

The “few stars” in the title of this post are made up of these two stars and Kona Bay is the third. The fabric I posted the photo of yesterday is a Kona Bay print, but beyond that I had no information about it. I sent the photo to Kona Bay asking if they could give me any information regarding the name and/or number. I’m very impressed by how quickly they responded with the information. Thanks to their quick response, I was able to find a piece of it on eBay. And a very good friend found a couple of pieces of black and white music fabric for me as well. It seems like the Harpsichord Quilt is meant to be made.

The heat has been building, as has the humidity, as has the pollution. We had heat, humidex and air quality advisories Monday and I’m sure they’ll continue on today. At midnight Monday night we still had a humidex reading of 34C.

The kitties are pretty lethargic in this heat, even though the apartment is cool. Smudge, guarding the toy basket.

And yet another in the series of Lester photos on the windowsill.