sky photo | Quilt Obsession

A bit more has been done on the Summer Picnic Dish. While I’m working on the baby quilt, I’m going to try to set aside a few evenings per week when I work on some of my other projects. The Summer Picnic Dish is one of those projects. How large I’ll make this is still up in the air. I think it will be a good-sized lap quilt.

While out on the roof garden taking the above picture, we got some of the various flowers. The hosta are now all blooming.

We noticed a bee fly into one of the hosta flowers and got this close-up. I think if you click on the photo to enlarge it, you’ll see the bee.

I love the splash of red on this flower.

Once again, they forecast the possibility of thunderstorms on Thursday and once again there wasn’t even a drop of rain. It was breezy but quite sunny and there were only a few clouds to be seen.

Smudge curled up for a while Thursday afternoon to catch up on some sleep.

Lester was on duty on the windowsill.

What does a shampoo bottle have to do with designing a quilt? I don’t know, but shampoo seems to be a definite aid. Whenever I’m playing with ideas for a quilt and then wash my hair, the idea for the quilt comes to me almost immediately. In the case of the baby quilt, the entire quilt was planned before I even rinsed the shampoo out including how it will be quilted and what I’ll name it.

This happens over and over. Whenever I’m working on a plan for something to do with a quilt and have hit a snag, it almost invariably sorts itself out while I wash my hair. I wonder what it is about shampooing that makes creativity flow.

I then stash shopped and gathered a grouping of fabrics to audition for the quilt. Not all of these will make their way into the quilt.

Finalizing just which fabrics I’ll use is still going on, but a few of the choices are definite so I was able to cut and print enough fabric for the first 7 blocks last night.

While sitting out on the roof garden, I got this shot of the sky. The forecast had said we might have thunderstorms and periodically a big dark cloud would appear only to float away and be replaced by these wispy ones. The heat and humidity are ongoing, but I am not complaining. The cold winter weather will be here all too soon, so I want to soak up as much of this warmth as I can.

For a while Wednesday afternoon, I was looking at websites for expats living in places like Ecuador and Costa Rica. The thought of winter coming usually drives me to think about things like moving to a milder climate. Although I doubt we’d ever do it, it’s fun to look and daydream.

Smudge wasn’t daydreaming in this shot.