Ryan Gosling... Mine, All Mine

A trailer for Drive came on the telly...

Hubs: "I love this movie!"
Me: "I LOVE RYAN GOSLING!!!"
Hubs: "Me too!"
Me: "No you don't!"
Hubs: "Yes I do!"
Me: "Noooooo!!! You don't love him like I love him!"
Hubs: "Don't you tell me how I love!"

Yup, it was another exciting Saturday evening at Chez Bleu. Jealous?

But seriously...

He's so pretty, it hurts. Hubba hubba.

Picture from here.

I'm Featured!

I'm SO excited because I'm featured on Amy's Creative Side today!!! Thanks Amy! :)

Spring Is On Its Way!

Look what I spied in the front yard yesterday afternoon! Plants! Sprouting! Almost makes up for the hour of 'lost' sleep this past weekend. I'm still upset about it. Obviously.

Speaking of spring, I made a quilt with spring colours... bright yellows, greens, pinks and blues. 

It's the Chopsticks pattern by Julie, and I'll be teaching it next month at my work. I'm very pleased with how it turned out and I can't stress enough what a great pattern it is. Julie did a brilliant job of writing it, and it was fun to do something different with my 60 degree ruler. The quilt's with my boss / long armer, Laura right now so I'll show you when it's all done! :)

Draw Something = Time Suck

Thanks to my sisters, I'm completely hooked on Draw Something. Have you played it yet??? It's SO much fun... kind of like Pictionary but new and super fun. If you're playing it, I'm 'blueisbleu' on there. If you're not, I suggest you don't begin. Because nothing will ever, ever, ever get done. Ever. (But I think you should get it because OMG SO MUCH FUN.)

And just to illustrate the fun to be had...

This is my sister Averil's drawing of a dinosaur. Apparently dinosaurs went "MEEP".

But isn't she so good at drawing? She takes forever but they're always so detailed. Me? I just draw some crap and hope you get me enough to guess correctly. I mean, I drew a horse that my sister said could only be described as a swollen dog. HAHAHAHA!!!

Squares In Squares Baby Quilt

How girlie is this little quilt?

A client asked if I had any Hushabye fabric left, and unfortunately I didn't. So what I did was pull the colours and feel of the fabrics and went from there. I didn't try too hard to recreate it because I knew it would be an impossible task to make the quilt look exactly like Hushabye. So I went with darker browns, damasks and dots so that it didn't look too baby-ish. I realise that there's more contrast with the fabrics I chose, but I kind of like that.


I used a solid light pink thread for the quilting because it seemed to fade into the blocks a little better than a white or off-white. And I did loopy quilting because it's so fun and quick.

I used two shades of pink solids that I had and scraps of blues and green for the little strip in between. The solids always show off the quilting so nicely. And as always, a nice dotty binding :)

All three quilts (churn dash, Nicey Jane and this one) are on their way to live in Toronto :)

Gotye

I can't stop playing this song. It's so raw and lovely and sad.

And he reminds me so much of Sting... and a hint of Peter Gabriel?

Instagram

A few pictures from my Instagram...

Halfway through quilting the churn dash quilt; beautiful solids from the first Block of the Month I'll be doing! (Amish with a Twist); hand quilting my little improv quilt in bed; and some shot cottons I bought on Etsy recently :)

Bibambap from Trader Joe's; tried a new chicken recipe (I highly recommend it!); gyoza drenched in sriracha; and spinach and ricotta lasagna.