Double pink

Here are two other backgrounds I auditioned for the ice cream quilt. Trying them helped me get a better sense of what the quilt wants.

This is a small plaid. The minimal amount of contrast between the background squares and the backgrounds of the ice cream blocks ends up making the quilt feel a little washed out. It is lacking some visual sparkle.




This next option is better but still not ideal. If you compare this fabric with the hand dye (there's a strip showing on the left in the photo) you can see that the colors are very similar; this does seem to be the general shade and saturation that the quilt wants. But I can't help but feel that if I'm going to repeat 6" chunks of fabric across a quilt, the print really ought to be a little more compelling than a pink cowhide pattern...



Back to the fabric store!

You scream, I scream...

I am currently working on an ice cream cone quilt. I have the individual cone blocks constructed, and am now playing with possible fabrics for the alternating squares. As you can see below, pink seems to work nicely, but I'm not sure whether the particular fabric is right. (I like the shade of pink with the other fabrics, just am not sold on the texture for this quilt.)

I guess I'll just have to drag myself ;) to the fabric store!




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Heat miser: heat me, sir!

We'd decided to keep the thermostat nice and low this winter. Things were going well (and we could see it in the heat bills) until Echo's arthritis started acting up and she could barely get around. So we turned the heat up, stationed the big comfy kitty pillow right in front of the heat vent, and added a space heater for good measure. (Of course Echo won't stay too long in any one place, and has since moved into a cardboard box in a different room, but Eisa sure loves it.)

Speaking of heat misers, we recorded and watched the Heat/Snow miser holiday special... was the original "Year without a Santa Claus" THAT bad? (IMDB says no.)

Here's a bit of the original here. LOVE that they got the original Heat Miser voice actor back 34 years later! Go, Mr Heat Miser, go!

I like quilts too

Truffle today

Click the photo to see a larger-than-life version, complete with dusty face from exploring under the bookshelf :)