This bad blogger will make good

Well I am unbelieveably inching up to 100 posts and when I get there I will offer something to those who read this ol' blog LOL.

I often read some of my posts and I'm so vague I'm sure nobody but me knows what I'm on about :O) So I will clarify my previous post, but not the previous 90-odd!

Here are the beautiful fabrics from Josie:

The silks are really lovely in the flesh, so lovely to touch, I shall have to think what to do with them. Any ideas?

Then here are those pesky bear claw blocks...

I followed the pattern which said to put two squares together, sew on either side of the diagonal and then trim in half, then half again and then on both diagonals, but there is so much trimming on the individual little pieces as well to be done. 160 itty bitty blocklets! I hate that! Perhaps I will do them tonight and just get them out the way so that I can sew the blocks together even though Thursday evenings I normally handquilt in front of the telly (Grey's Anatomy - I'm addicted).

In a previous post I mentioned I had made Bonnie's Pineapple Blossom quilt which gave bonus triangles

A whole lot in fact. I plan to make a lap quilt in this layout...

Not that interesting a layout, but I like it :O)

Busy, busy, busy

Things conspire against me daily as far as blogging goes LOL. Today I had time to blog, but had left my camera in the car which DH had borrowed and I thought I can't blog without a picture... I will find one to add to the end of this post as now it's too late and too dark to photograph the lovely fabrics Josie bought me on her holiday in China. Luscious silks (and cottons too) - very nice and many thanks Josie.

I have also not sewn a stitch as we have been out and about for the last 2 days and I'm exhausted... I could have worked on my bear paws for a swap, but I couldn't face squaring up 160 x 2 and 1/4" blocks for the claws! I will do them tomorrow!

So here's my pic to spice up this post...

I started this UFO when I lived in Germany. It's a Lone Star from a course which I did with Magda Goldbach. I didn't manage to get the squaring-up pieces in on the day (or even cut them!) and I never thought I'd be able to do them myself so I just left it. I'm sure I could probably manage them now, but I'm also wondering if I should finish it up as a tablecloth or a bed quilt or even a wallhanging... I fancy a bit of applique if I add white squares to it, but I'm not sure right now. Decisions, decisions LOL. Perhaps I'll wait for the next BQL Ostrich challenge (see mine from 2006 here) to do something with it....