roof garden | Quilt Obsession

The label is, for the most part, finished. All that’s left now is to press all the little seams, write the names on the centre panel and then stitch that to the flower border.

The window cleaners came today. They did the exterior and we did the interior. It’s wonderful! Of course, it immediately started to rain but they’re much cleaner after that summer of rain, rain and more rain!

I’m not sure what the plant is that is turning that wonderful pink shade. It was green all summer but now is really quite striking to look out and see. I took this and the next photo from our living room.

The rain was falling but the flowers surrounding this crab apple tree are still very vibrant. I couldn’t resist trying for a shot of them as well.

The last couple of days, Lester has been hanging out on the windowsill a lot. Today was fun — we got a lot of good shots of him.

Smudge, just after his yogourt treat the other night. If you look closely, you can see that he has a bit of yogourt on his nose still.

Peg at Happy in Quilting has issued a challenge which I’ve joined in on — finish 5 flimsies into quilts by the end of July. I don’t know if I’ll get five done, but the blue and white stars is one and up next will be my shabby chic diamonds.

I’ve shown these before on my blog but they have now moved up to the next major project I want to work on and get off the UFO list. There are about 50 of these pieced diamonds from Quilted Diamonds 2. I have an idea for a setting which will utilize a border of either small 6-pointed stars or small GFG flowers, also done in shabby chic.

This won’t be a really large quilt, but I think it will be a good-sized lap quilt. And I get to work with my favourite types of fabrics! Right now I have two ideas for the centre of this quilt. Either a thin sashing with cornerstones between each diamond, setting them into a large rectangle with a thin border and then a border of either the small stars or small GFG flowers.

Or I may make large diamonds out of 4 diamonds each — and then sash those large diamonds, turn that into a rectangle and again add a small border then a border utilizing the stars or GFG flowers.

The gardeners have planted flowers under each of the trees out on the roof garden. This is what the base of one of the crab apple trees looks like now.

Smudge really outdid himself this time. We’re always amazed at the positions in which he sleeps!