Boo being sick...

I spent the week laying on my couch watching Studio Ghibli films because I felt like poop. Besides the awesomeness on my TV screen, it was a slow boring week with lots of liquids. And although I felt crappy, my basil plant apparently loves himself and sunshine because he is growing superbly! You can see him here in the window making sure everyone parks in the right spot and watching ambulances go by:

I used part of him over the weekend to make basil and goat cheese stuffed chicken breasts with mashed cauliflower and roasted brussel (sp?) sprouts... mmmmmyumm. It was delightful. But before I got sick, I worked a little more on my sudoku quilt. I took a picture of the face with the future backing and binding. The binding is a really pretty purple but my camera skills provide no justice.

The lack of progress on the actual quilting of Mr. Sudoku is due to some other projects - I am very bad at starting a bunch of projects then slowly getting around to finishing them. I spent some time cutting out twelve 5X5 squares from 12 different fabrics, so 144 squares, all to make a fun disappearing nine patch quilt. A friend of mine made some placemats a while back using the nine patch and I have wanted to try the pattern ever since. Here's a picture of the beginnings of this quilt - it is using a lot of fabrics from Connecting Threads Birchtree Lane by Jenni Calo:

I am trying to work on my photography skills, so please bear with me :-) In the meantime, good news is my Quilts for Kids kit has been shipped to me! So excited to get to work on it.

Happy fabrics and foods!