Sunday, 19 July 2009

The other things keeping us busy...


The weeks have flown by since school ended on the 26th of June. D and I have been keeping a calendar to remember the things we've accomplished since. After a week of day
camp for the boys, we have done lots to keep them busy and ourselves from going stir-crazy.

Friends of ours think our boys will become little euro-snobs what with the tennis, golf, horseback riding and picknicking in the bois that we've done this week and last...I don't think so, as I listen to the AC/DC and James Brown that D is playing along with to the accompanyment of his dad.


We've had a few nights out, a few people in and we're trying to teach the kids how to cook with us for dinners...it is so important for them to feel comfortable in the kitchen since we'll not be serving them forever...and who wants to have as a partner someone who won't/can't cook? We've decided it's not selfish for us to want them to do this but a duty for their future mates! Here's a pic of a recent meal (eaten on the deck) that the boys helped concoct: lentil salad, peanut sauce with saute'd chicken in a thai marinade, along side a bombe of basmati rice. To round out the meal: wine, cheese and fresh cherries picked locally this weekend.

now renamed the quiltblog...


Okay, okay, I know there are better things to write about...but when one is in the "zone", one must indulge in a bit of navel-gazing...hence another pic of the progress of the progressing quilt.

The top is more than 1/3 done, and I am still obsessed with finishing more and more each day. The last several days has only been piecing, not cutting, and for some reason this seems much slower a process. Perhaps it is because I'm not playing with new fabric pieces, only those I've already cut.

As you can see here, I've reached the edging on the lower right corner *(the pic above has not been rotated, I didn't think it mattered) and the next task is the lower left. I'm more than 2/3rds the way across the vertical axis and the next corner will be very quick, relative to this first one.

Wish me luck. I'm off to Corsica for a holiday starting Saturday, and I know I'm going to dream of this project while I'm away from it!

Sunday, 12 July 2009

An update

Here's the latest pic of the quilt...slowly but surely coming together...