Sunday, March 9, 2014

Another Time Out


Well, I have another busy time coming up, so I'll be taking another break from blogging, likely until May. Yes, there's another hospital visit in my future, but no, nothing risky is going on, and I'm looking forward to feeling much better when it's all done.


I don't know if there will be much stitching time over the break, but I thought I'd tease you with some photos of a completely new project, that you may not see again for months. I know that's not fair! But it's just so pretty, isn't it?

The fabric is Flight Patterns by Tamara Kate:


That's all I'll say on that for now, except that since I've been inspired by the watercolour effects in the fabric, these...


...will also be unwrapped later this year. See you in May!

Monday, March 3, 2014

Back to Best Friends Forever


After a long hiatus, I have been working on Best Friends Forever again for the past few days. It sure feels easy, after all the fiddly little bits on Sweet Hearts, and the heavy stitching on L'Herbier! Mainly, though, I was in the mood for the bright spring colours again.


These two motifs are from Month 3, and were already mostly done when I put it away last year. The next two have further to go, but who knows? Maybe I am on a roll. :D

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Caribbean Blue

Here
Sometimes, when the sun hits the lake at the right angle on a day like today, it almost looks like a Caribbean blue. Almost? Well...

There
...you decide. This is Willemstad, CuraƧao, and the photo is courtesy of this website. Willemstad is the inspiration for a new project that has totally jumped the queue despite my best efforts to suppress it. This pile of fabric has been sitting on the corner of my sewing table for over a week now:


It is clear that I won't get anything else done until I deal with it. Although it was published in 2005, I just bought Home Sweet Home by Barb Adams and Alma Allen a couple weeks ago after I saw a finished version of the quilt over on the Den Haan & Wagenmaker's blog here. So I have some "Double Dutch" inspiration to blame! Did the Dutch blog give rise to the Willemstad connection? Maybe. All I know for sure is that I really wanted to use a supersaturated blue background, and some bright Caribbean colours:




The weather forecast for Toronto is well below freezing all next week, but I'm hoping these colours will keep me warm! Now that I've bowed to the inevitable, I'm hoping to get the houses blocked in quickly. I needed a real applique project, after all. Wasn't it one of my New Year's resolutions? ;)
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