This is the beginning of the centre of the quilt I’m going to make using some of the .50″ hexagons I have printed. I’m purposely not setting the 4-hexagon units in line or in specific spots. There may be areas where there will be a 3 or 4 green hexagons between the little florets. I know this project will get put away and taken out again over and over, but it will be my main hexagon project for the next while. It seems I always have to have a hexagon project of some sort or another on the go.
This is half of a melon/arc unit done for the DWR quilt. The hand dyes I’m using in the arcs are rather like a batik and, as my hands are still quite painful, I’m going to forego stitching these by hand this time. I’ll turn this into a hybrid project and will do the arc piecing by machine and then I can have the fun of stitching the arcs to the melons and centres by hand, thus enjoying all that wonderful curved piecing.
This is one of the reasons I love this new Inklingo DWR collection, although there are a whole host of reasons to be thrilled with it. This worksheet, along with others that come as part of the collection, are absolutely fantastic tools and make planning a DWR a breeze!
The weather on Monday was dreadful. Windy, cold, raining, snowing, you name it! We had less than a centimetre of snow all of March, so seeing snow falling on the 6th of April seemed rather cruel! I know it won’t last but still — snow?? This was the roof garden Monday evening. The snow wasn’t melting as soon as it hit.
Although the snow was falling outside, thankfully we have the dome and the roof was closed Monday night for the opening game of the baseball season, which was fabulous and our Jays won! Although, if some of the fans had continued on with their silly antics, the game could have been forfeited. It was really a shame to see fans throwing paper airplanes and baseballs and who knows what else out on to the field. Aside from being silly and childish and distracting from what was an absolutely fabulous inning for the Jays, they could have caused real harm to the players in the outfield. I can’t believe they would do that and put their home team in peril of forfeiting a game that they were winning. The looks on the faces of the umpires and managers told the whole story — I think they were utterly appalled. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The game was delayed for approximately 10 minutes while the groundskeepers removed the debris from the field and the crowd settled down after being told by the announcer that anyone caught doing that would be required to leave the dome and could face criminal charges. Why does the opening game of the season bring out the worst in fans?
The wind was quite fierce Monday night and Smudge seemed a bit unsettled by it. However, that didn’t stop him from posing for pictures. Nothing stops him from posing for pictures!
Lester wasn’t going to hang out on the windowsill Monday. It was much too cold. He found a nice spot to curl up and have a nap.
There’s a list of quilt-related things I want to accomplish over the weekend. First, finish piecing the DWR runner and possibly even get it basted. I found the perfect quilting thread for it last weekend at Sew Sisters. Second, get the Tropical Punch blocks stitched together with that glorious lime green batik. Third, print and cut the pieces for the rainbow of the Sky Quilt. Finally, print the pieces for the drunkard’s path basket quilt. 
Smudge posing for the camera. He literally holds the pose when he hears the camera being turned on. And then, when we start to walk away, he’ll strike another pose and look at us as if to say, “Well, aren’t you photographing this??”
Quilt Obsession 