Inspiration: orange and blue zigzag

I like these colours and this design (also reminds me of Charlie Brown -- the shirt) from the Purl Patchwork blog. (PS Purl Patchwork has such wonderful fabric, I am so happy to have a good quilting store in my city.)

Searching for inspiration

"my circles" making progress
Originally uploaded by stitch n' knit

In the midst of composition angst during that last quilt, I remembered that a good thing to do when out of ideas is to look at other people's art. The solution ended up coming from a picture of another book inside this quilt book I have (I do not have enough quilt books and would love love to have some of Japanese quilts particularly...). Totally ghetto picture but totally solved my problem.

Somehow I lost all my good quilt bookmarks switching computers when I moved, but I'm on the hunt again. I'll post anything I find that's interesting. I like the circles above, esp the mix of broken-up and whole; the colour scheme is kind of 70s (I don't know whether that's good or bad).

Toronto and back again, including blitz finale

Ok everyone. I went to Toronto this past (extended) weekend, and saw all sorts of wonderful folks in the correct sort of doses (meaning I could actually talk to most of the people I saw, instead of seeing them all in one go and talking to no one at all in a satisfying way). It was good to see you all! And it's good to be back home in New York too.

And also, I DID FINISH the blitzquilt in time to go! My boss, who is extremely kind, gave me my birthday off work, so I stayed home and quilted. Perhaps a strange choice for a birthday but I did finish making something beautiful.





I am very happy with it and am happy to report that the new owners (well, the baby isn't born yet but the parents) are too.

Also had crazy dreams most of the time I was there. And, got pictures of the cross in my Manning Ave backyard, odd that I never took any while I lived there for 3+ years. Here's the one at my current apt. Wonder if this trend will continue with whatever my next apt is (no, I'm not moving).

Incomplete progression (not very blitz)

(Some of these photos are supersketch, I need to start using my real camera again instead of just my phone)













I have a crazy plan to finish this before I head to Toronto Thursday morning -- and Wednesday is my BIRTHDAY (I AM TURNING THIRTY), leaving me only Monday and Tuesday to work...

Top three of New York

I went up the Empire State Building! First time ever. Seems like a endless exercise in lining up if you go the regular route (4 or 5 maybe 6 separate long lines), but LL had a special pass that let us skip all the lines but the last one. LUCKY. Am discovering ways like this a lot living here -- like you know someone who.. and suddenly something expensive or difficult is free or cheap or easy. Stay tuned for a particularly exciting one of these in September.





There are moths up there! Hilarious.

Some other New York tourist classics (we were talking about tourist trophy shots while on top of the world):