I Got Mail!

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Quiltobsession

… from Stina in Sweden! The gift bag is so pretty and was just full of wonderful surprises.

For the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of talk in blogland about pincushions. I haven’t said a word about mine as it’s just a plain old tomato pincushion. I was thrilled to receive this pincushion made by Stina — it’s absolutely wonderful! So now I can display a pretty pincushion too. 😉

Do you see the feathers in the package in the top photo? Well, the package contains feathers and these little wooden figures — bunnies and chicks. They’re absolutely adorable and are now decorating our wall unit. These will be brought out every year for Easter!

And this egg — which is, so far, chock full of candies and chocolate. We’re being very good and saving it for Easter, but I’m not sure how much we’ll be able to resist as the week goes on! LOL

And just because it’s such a good photo, here’s another shot of Lester.

Yesterday we made a trip to the LQS where they had bundles of the most glorious Japanese taupes. I was oh, so tempted but resisted. Instead, I picked up some more of the black and white prints and a pattern for my Four Seasons Quilt Swap. I’m going to amend the pattern a bit to incorporate an element that really means spring to me — flying geese. When I see a V of Canada Geese flying north it’s a sure sign that spring is here. Haven’t seen that yet!

If the forecast is accurate, we’re in for a snowy Easter. Thankfully it was mild yesterday and a lot of the snow is starting to melt but we still have enormous snowbanks!

Yet More Diamonds

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Quiltobsession

I have a wonderful top made up of diamonds from Quilted Diamonds 1 and 2 but we cannot seem to get a decent picture of it. We’ll keep trying. It has been basted and will be the next in the hoop when I finish the bow ties.

In the meantime, I found some pictures of some of the diamonds. I did a lot of fussy cutting for the diamond quilt and had a fabulous time working on it!

I suppose the best way to show some of these diamonds will be by posting separate photos of them anyway, so will do that with a few more over the next couple of days. This one is, quite possibly, my favourite although I have to admit I love every single one of them!

There’s still a week to enter my little Inklingo-shape kit giveaway. Leave a comment on the post announcing the giveaway, and you’ll be entered.

We had yet another storm last night with more snow! I’m hoping we’re getting close to the end of this winter as we seem to have had way more snow than normal! Yesterday we could see the grass on the roof garden. Today? Today it’s buried under quite a blanket of snow!

More Circles — and more snow

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Quiltobsession

There are at least 70 or 80 of these circles done. I’m not sure at all what I’ll do with these ones — I keep thinking that some sort of table runner and matching placemats might be fun. And it would be a Christmas gift that I could get put together now and tuck away! One thing’s for sure — whatever I’m making to give away this Christmas is going to be done early.

It is snowing yet again — I cannot believe the amount of snow we’re getting this year.

I’ve been working on the tessellating pinwheels and the 2″ Drunkard’s Path tops — but as I’m hand piecing, they are taking a while and really don’t have too much to show — yet! I’ll be taking a few days off form any piecing as I tack down the binding on the king-sized shabby chic quilt seen here. Finally. I really don’t know why I’ve left it so long because I actually enjoy that part.