Blitzquilt

For scale-scale: this quilt is three feet by four feet. For time-scale: I started piecing the top last Friday, and finished it last night (Wednesday). (I'm frankly impressed that I finished it.) On Tuesday, I bought batting instead of going to the island with Meanoch et al. And now...

...comes the hard part, or rather the part I've never done before: the sandwiching of layers and the actual quilting. My goal had been to finish this before I went to Ottawa this weekend, but now I'm not going anymore; maybe I'll use the weekend to finish the quilt.

(And the phone photos continue. For now you'll have to use your imagination a bit re: colours. LL says that she will be my official photographer until I get my camera back from my sister.)

P.S. Amazing

More amazing here.

I took a picture of the blitzquilt this morning – with my phone – the top is done! But for some reason I'm having troubles emailing it to the internet. Stay tuned.

Handicap

I am working on a bunch of things right now (including the mysterious blitzquilt) but I can't show you anything because my sister has my digicam. I feel like I am missing a limb. Ok that's an exaggeration. Just a finger. But seriously now, I am severely hampered in my ability to blog and have been reduced to taking any necessary photos with my phone.

Actually, taking phone photos is really fun, because I can email them to flickr as soon as I take them. I've recently cleaned out the photo archives on my phone: flickr now shows tiny pictures of NYC, the Exhibition last summer, various graffitis and other odds and ends. Check em out.

As you may have guessed, the photo above is also a phone photo – and is the product of a facebook (oh yes) friendship between me and my Halifax doppelganger (discovered by Tom: she owns a knitting store and teaches at an art college and even has green glasses). So: Mimi sent me shoes; now I will send her something. I have an idea for what, I just need to get it all together.

Not a whole lot of crafting

But I did go wandering in my neighborhood. Things are a little wacky around Christie and Dupont.