A slow two weeks

Definitely a slow two weeks!

Thanks to everyone for good wishes after my last post,

sadly the CT scan showed problems with my spinal canal have progressed 

so off for another appointment in two weeks time, until then I shall be very careful!

Quilting - two short sessions only. Last post I showed this photo

and decided pastels were not for me, I had decided to make

a quilt from a Judy Newman book below

in fact it was the one on the cover.

However, Linda at kokaquilts

sent me links to this particular pattern made with some nice

splashes of colour here and there. This week I decided to play around

with fabrics again and this is the first row

I decided to go with a KF fabric - Dream in Dark - for the setting triangles.

Not a great photo, Gypsy Wife is on my design wall so this strip ended up on

the dining table.

I've been spending time reading, cutting the last of the roses

and enjoying watching the sun rise

I'm going to link up now with 

Linda and Julie

for

Sew, Stitch, Snap, SHARE

and hope I have more quilting to post about next week.

This and That

It's been a funny sort of week for me, not 

as in "ha ha" funny but a pretty frustrating one.

 I showed a photo of a book by

Judy Newman some time ago, beautiful old-fashioned sort

of quilts, soft colours. This week was the time

to begin one that I found particularly lovely.

I spent ages pulling fabrics - some below - and as I'm not known for my soft pastel colours

 it was difficult finding fabric to use, some are below but

when I had the first row in place on the wall, it just wasn't

me!! Didn't work at all, I needed a colour fix

so on to Section 10 of Gypsy Wife. Two small blocks sewn - one

obviously a bit on the too small side - and a few strips later

my tendonitis flared suddenly which put

paid to any more cutting or sewing, I made it just this far below.

I took a telephone call from the hospital where they asked me

to please come in for an appointment Friday (tomorrow), I needed

to be seen sooner than my scheduled appointment in a few

weeks time, so that didn't add to my week.

There was a bright spot yesterday with a package in the mail of two books

 ordered a couple of months ago.

The colour in these two is amazing, I think of the two my favourite

is New York Beauties and Flying Geese, full to bursting

with colour!

I intend to relax tomorrow before going to the hospital with these two.

So, not a productive week at all but I did take a photo

of one of my beautiful hibiscus

and hopefully I shall be back at the machine early next week,

fingers crossed!

Hope you've all had a good week with lots of quilting.

Maureen

Kaleidoscope - stripping again!

A little more work on the Kaleidoscope quilt - starting

with these strips of varying widths,

these then get cut into blocks

which then are sewn into a long chain and

using my Kaleidoscope ruler I then cut these into

the pieces below

and when I have enough variety these have spotty

corners added and join up with plain cream wedges below.

If I follow the pattern (Kathy Doughty & Sarah Fielke) exactly there will be a piano key style border as shown above,

possibly a little deeper than these left over sets shown here.

I have a few more partial blocks made but I forgot to starch some of the dotty fabrics

and ended up with terrible corners so more work's needed to fix these.

I'm loving grabbing strips out of the box and stitching up with no

matching of colour or width - great stress reliever this pattern.

Speaking of stress relief a wander around the garden

showed another of my Vireya rhodos flowering,

just what is needed in the Autumn garden!

Have a good weekend, back again soon.
Linking up with Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Maureen