… is finished. Block 20 has been started. I’ve decided to make 30 blocks in total, so will pick out more 10 more pinks to use. My goal of finishing it this year looks pretty unobtainable but it will be finished this winter!

The back:

Wednesday was interesting. Snow overnight, then rain and more rain through the day and then the temperatures dropped. We didn’t go out, but I have a feeling the roads must have been terrible.

Lester looking up:

Smudge looking too adorable for words!

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.

… 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.

The back:

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

And Smudge on the couch:

… is now finished. Ten more blocks to go and then I’ll have enough for the lap quilt I have in mind.

The back, after pressing.

Thursday was a very busy day for the kitties on the windowsill. The gardener was here early in the morning with the leaf blower so they had to watch that. Then it got a bit breezy in the afternoon and leaves were falling off the branches at a rapid pace. Lester’s eyes got enormous every time a few leaves would fly by.

Smudge can’t just sit and watch. He has to be pacing back and forth along the window and sometimes batting at the window. He had to jump into a chair beside the window and have a bit of a rest at one point. It’s hard to get a good shot of him on the windowsill as he’s usually in motion.

The design floor was put to good use again Wednesday night as I laid out the pink and white snow crystal blocks. Pink Ice is the name that I’ve decided on for this quilt. The blocks finish at 9″ and I want to use some sort of sashing but now, seeing it laid out, I’m really wondering what will work. I want to keep this as a two-colour quilt so the sashing would have to be some sort of pink. I have a plan for a border now too which will include half stars.

The fabric the blocks are lying on is a pink and white tiny print. It clearly doesn’t work for the sashing. Maybe a pink stripe of some form or a pink batik that has a lot of different shades of pink in it?

Lester sometimes looks, to me, as though he’s a very wise kitty. Then, of course, he does something totally goofy like chewing on his ruff.

Smudge showing just how well he knows how to relax. He was asleep like this, with the hind leg stretched up on the cushion.