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Dear Blog,

I have not forgotten you - and will dig up photos of completed blocks of the month.

Sunday Squares - 3

Hope we all have had a lovely Sunday ~ little blast of winter today even so we had a nice day out visiting friends in the country. Fine food, good company and a little cutting of squares for the next group - I have not completed the 100 squares so I might not get to Sunday Squares 4 next week.

Not the normal table for the photo so I think it looks a little different in the photo. I knew that we wouldn't be home in time for photo in daylight when I like to take the pictures.

This is a detail within the showing a little scrap of 'From little things' found last weekend.

Block 11 - and a little applique

Ahhhh - Saturday, don't know about you all but I am living for the weekends at the moment. Strange thing about them is they seam to take forever to come, but arrive in a blink then ~ whoosh they are gone!

Anyway ~ it is an early start today, sitting here with the little man on my lap, have done and hung the first load of washing on the line and completed a row on the 3rd block for Squares... you may be lucky and get the third instalment tomorrow as I have done 6 rows of the 10.

I have for your viewing pleasure today ~ Block 11 of the Circle game.

I had to applique the centre circle into this because as much as I measured, checked - then measured etc, it didn't work to plan A. It was interesting as I thought this would be a walk in the park... easy... then that is the fun of this project to challenge my sewing skills.

I think the simple answer was that I was just that tiny little out when sewing, which stretched the angles and made the centre a little too large.

Sunday Squares - 2

Happy sunday one and all, here are some pics of the new block. I have block 3 ready to go and will most likely do that once I have attended to 'The Circle game' blocks that arrived this week.

I went to Amitié yesterday for a little fabric addiction therapy, found about 10 more pieces from the extensive scraps bin that will go into the Squares project ~ after all you can never have too many different fabrics in this kind of quilt. I even found and purchased 4 meters of Liberty for the back of 'The Circle Game' ~ well pleased with that as well.

So without further rambling... some fabric candy for you all!

Block 2

Blocks 1 and 2 together..

Back for 'The Circle Game'

Let there be light!

I have a hobby light from the Daylight company which give a good amount of light for the evenings so I can sit and vegetate with the idiot box and my favourite project of the day. Unfortunately the globe went to G O D.

You would think that it would be an easy thing to resolve anyway it took a bit of effort and contacting the Daylight company to find someone who could sell me a globe... arrived yesterday in the post along with my monthly dose of BOM.

So I have light and additional project all in the same day... so what to do the apron that is well abandoned or the BOM or squares? hmm

Squares win tonight as I can not be bothered with the machine and I am a bit tired to draw templates for the BOM - for your image today another angle of Squares from the weekend, I am onto the next group of squares 5 rows so that should be ready for the weekend.

Sunday Squares

I am pleased with how this is beginning to take shape. So far I am not sure of the final quilt so until then I will make some more of these.

This is 10 rows of 10, you will see my iphone for a size comparison. I do like the scale and am pleased that I didn't go for 1 inch squares.

NOTE: this is all hand stitched not machine pieced..

When taking the photos I noticed that I had this one here on the camera - forgotten that I took it on our last weekend in March to Taggerty.

The morning mist was wonderful.

We have a very helpful little fellow at home ~ Alakazam is learning how to do the dishes, that is when he is not stalking Miss Tigga...

Thought that I would try a video....

Hope you all have a lovely week...

Happy Saturday

It is starting to get a chill in the air in the mornings and the days are getting a bit shorter with the mornings all up the creek with light as DST is making the perceived time all screwy.

Had a good week and completed some more squares for the new project - 250 of them or 10% of the total for those technically minded.

Statistics 2500 1 1/2 inch squares - and as I do about 12 stitches to the inch with some back stitching, that 200,000 stitches and we should have a top done.

I have even joined some - 40 to date, you will just have to deal with the teaser as I can not be bothered this morning getting out of a warm bed!

Photograph colour is awful, as the photo was with the light on...