Pickled Ladies Quilt | Quilt Obsession

These blocks are addictive. I think I may end up changing out 2 of the black and white triangles in this one as, while there is a touch of black in the two, there’s not quite enough contrast to their neighbouring white triangles. I’ll leave that decision for a bit as it may just work with the whole pickled ladies story.

The back:

The Pickled Ladies story is based on an image I have in my mind of a very elegantly dressed Audrey Hepburn-like lady with an absolutely smashing hat sitting in an art deco bar. It goes on from there and will probably involve Daphne, the martini-drinking duck previously seen here, before it’s over.

Tuesday was a gorgeous day with lots of brilliant sunshine and warmth. I know our days of summer are quickly drawing to a close but am resisting the idea of switching out summer clothing for fall as long as I possibly can. Denial seems to be my middle name when it comes to the colder weather.

On Monday, we finally saw a squirrel out on the roof garden for the first time this summer. Since then, Lester has been spending time on the windowsill keeping an eye out for the squirrel.

Smudge in one of the almost headless cat shots. Notice he has toys strewn all about within paw’s reach for when he wakes up.

The new clamshell pickle collections have me completely enthralled. I immediately had at least three different ideas, one of which will involve my favourite shabby chic fabrics and some Oriental prints. I’m calling it Pickled Ladies as there’s a story that goes along with it which I will eventually write and share. The first of the Pickled Ladies is shown above.

The back:

I’m fussy cutting/printing the clamshells. It’s quite quick to do as I printed out one clamshell on a piece of paper cut down to the right size for printing just one shape, Mr. Q.O. cut out the interior of it and I have a window template which makes it very simple to figure out how to cut the fabrics and have a flower or other item as the centre of the clamshell.

The baby quilt top is finished, pressing is partially done and I’m still hunting for the flannel backing for it. As soon as it’s quilted, which I expect will only take a weekend or two, we’ll get good pictures of it.

Labour Day weekend was chilly. In fact, so chilly that on Monday we turned the heat on for a bit. It’s too bad that it was chilly, windy and rainy as so many people head to cottage country for that one last summer long weekend. Of course, today it’s supposed to be quite warm and humid again — typical of the weather here, as I can’t remember a year when, on the first day of school, we weren’t all roasting by the time school was over.

Smudge was curled up on the pink chair.