Wednesday’s Little Blocks

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Quiltobsession

As the focus now is on my aunt’s quilt, one flower was all that was done to add to the garden.

A few klosjes blocks were added to the collection as well.

On Saturday night, we went to the large grocery store that’s down near the waterfront. It was still quite warm and humid but the clouds were rolling in, bringing in the rather cool weather we’ve had since. We got this shot of the skyline from the parking lot of the grocery store.

This is my latest favourite shot of Smudge. He was very alert as it was getting close to the time for his nightly yogourt treat.

Lester spent a fair amount of time on the windowsill on Tuesday watching the birds.

Wednesday Flowers

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Quiltobsession

Two flowers were made this week — one with 1″ hexagons and one with .50″ hexagons. To see more flowers made this week, go to the page at Karen’s blog here where there’s a list of all those making the flowers.

In my ongoing organization, I found these little stars — some of them made by me, some by a friend — made with .50″ diamonds. That’s a penny on one of the little stars to give an idea of their size. I have enough of the tiny diamonds printed and cut out to make about another 15 or 20 stars and am playing with the idea of a setting for them that will use 1″ hexagons. That’s yet another idea that’s going in the ideas book as I’m trying to stay completely focused on the quilt for my aunt.

The back of the little stars.

At the moment, these are the only flowers to be seen on the roof garden. Tuesday the gardener was busy out there adding soil to the flowerbeds, so I’m wondering if he’ll be doing some planting before the weekend.

There has been a lot of grackle and robin activity on the roof garden for Lester to keep his eye on.

Smudge seems to be not as interested but I have a feeling that if and when the woodpecker shows up, he’ll be on that windowsill in no time.

Wednesday’s Flower

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Quiltobsession

While I’m working on my aunt’s quilt, I am going to try to restrict the amount I get distracted from it by other projects. So One Flower Wednesdays will be, for me, truly One Flower Wednesdays! This week I decided to make another of the large ones with the 1″ hexagons. The back:

To see more flowers done by gardeners on One Flower Wednesday, go to Karen‘s post here where there’s a list of all the gardeners with links to their blogs.

This was taken a few days ago out on the roof garden:

Something must have told me I would end up making more than one of the Spring Circles quilts. I have kept the fabrics I’ve used for it in a separate container, which I would not normally do. It’s going to be quite simple to go through and cut the pieces for the beginning of the new Spring Circles quilt for us when I get the one for my aunt finished.

Tuesday was a very grey cool day here. It was dark enough that we had to turn the lamps on almost as soon as we got up in the morning. The cats found places to curl up and sleep. Smudge with a teddy:

And Lester in the chair:

One Flower Wednesdays

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Quiltobsession

I made half a dozen of these little flowers using half-inch hexagons. To give an idea of the size of them, there’s a nickel in the middle of one. I think I may alternate between these tiny ones and some made with the 1″ hexagons as I do have an idea for a small quilt using those as well.

Just to show the difference in size, this are some 1″ hexagons with the same nickel:

I really like working with .75″ hexagons as well so think I’ll print some fabrics to make a few of those. If I’m doing One Flower Wednesdays, I may as well have a variety of sizes.

This week has turned out to be different than I anticipated. I wasn’t expecting to be as busy as I have been. As a result, I’m not getting around to blogs as much as usual nor have I responded to comments for a day or two. Once today is over, then I’ll get caught up!

We had another absolutely glorious day on Wednesday. Lots of sunshine. Now I know it’s truly getting warm out there. Some of the sun worshippers in the building were out on the roof garden Wednesday afternoon in their bathing suits. That is a first — I don’t ever remember anyone being able to do that here this early.

Lester was busy on the windowsill watching as the gardener was out there adding soil to the flower beds.