Warmth in the North

so many things

    Last Monday while traveling from BC to Ontario I though that other than a wedding on Saturday there wasn't really much on my plate for the next week and a half.  In the usual way of things the last seven days have been jam packed with activity.  There are no pictures of the center pieces that I helped with, the midnight buffet, my nana's newly painted ceiling or much of anything. 

    Instead may I present the last of my swoon blocks for the baby blanket?  I've been assure that the colour scheme will work perfectly for the new baby and more importantly the baby's parents.  The full top is actually complete and just waiting for quilting so with any luck it will be finished before the baby.  Although I'm tempted to take it to my long arm quilter to give it an extra special finish.

    I'm going the spend as much time as possible sitting in the garden hanging out with the birds.  It's really hot and muggy here so my time outside is limited.  I'm not sure if your body can lose it's ability to deal with heat and humidity but if it can mine has given up.  I guess living in a cool dry place for five years can have an effect on a person.

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    Another block down and that little bit closer to checking this baby quilt top off the epic list of doom.  You see last night I wrote down all the things I'd like to get done before I fly to Ontario on Monday and it's looking slightly very unrealistic.  Very few of this things are necessary but it would make re-entry so much nicer so I'm really going to try and complete as much as possible.

    Honestly I probably wrote the list so that I'd have something to take my mind off this unfortunate situation.  I know that many people have been far more affected by flooding this summer but as the rain continues to fall there is the possibility that more of the roads between me and the airport are going to wash out.  It's going to be an interesting drive come Monday morning.    

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    I know that I've gone on and on about my problems with yellow but for the record I actually like this particular shade.  Not that I'd want to drape myself in it or anything but it is generally acceptable.  Both of the fabrics in this block come from the honey colourway in the Prince Charming line.  Maybe I like honey just not yellow, weird but I'll take it.

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    I was having a bit of a crisis related to non crafty things when it suddenly dawned on me that everything would be better if I only started cutting fabric.  In all honesty this didn't solve the problem but it did give me some time to think which is always a good thing.  Anyway I've started a smaller version of Swoon, inspired by this quilt top, with the hope that I'll manage to finish it in time to gift to one on the many babies due to arrive in the next little while.

outside my comfort zone

    I've been irritatingly sick for the last little while, nothing major but just enough to keep me in bed and asleep during most of my recent downtime.  Anyway it has curtailed my crafting and internet time, it'll be nice to get back to creating and reading about what everyone has been up to.  Being sick is boring.

    These blocks were made yesterday and as a way to reenter crafting they were well outside anything I'd usually try.  Jenny is the quilter for the Grace circle in do. Good Stitches this July, she asked us to make two wonky cross blocks with orange and brown as the background colours.  They were really easy and fun to make but those colours made things a bit hard. 

    I ended up buying some brown fabric because I had so little. Standing in the brown section of the store it struck me once again that I really don't like certain colours.  It's almost as if I find them uncomfortable.  I rejected bolt after bolt before finally deciding on the two I ended up with.  Now that I look at them in the finished block they're suddenly appealing, especially the one with the turquoise trees.