bramble blooms

Sensational Recipe, Bramble Blooms, New Spin on Backbasting from Canadian Needle Nana

My second Odd Bunch box has arrived and I've been very pleased with both of them. For $20 a box, I think they are a good deal. All of the items have been fresh, nothing even close to spoiling or odd. I am enjoying the variety of items included, a nice selection of vegetables and fruit.

I got blackberries in the first box, a fruit I never buy so it was neat to try them. It also had a butternut squash in the first and an eggplant in this one. Two things I haven't cooked before.

I cut ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 1 week, 1 day ago. under applique , bramble blooms , recipes , youtube videos

Bramble Blooms, Answering Reader's Questions from Canadian Needle Nana

It was a record breaking 10C here on Thursday and the temps have remained above zero, unheard of mid February weather, for a couple of days. The foggy air felt almost balmy and the squirrels and birds seemed to be going mad out there. The melting had uncovered lots of tidbits for them. But back to regular winter days now.

This is another of Robert Bateman's birds in winter...Varied Thrush. Just lovely colours.

I have these two books from the library and started The Snow Child and realized I'd read it before.

I went on to Snow ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 2 months, 1 week ago. under birds , books , bramble blooms , feelings , youtube videos

Bramble Blooms, Chookshed Stitchers Challenge, Free Patterns from Canadian Needle Nana

If the sun is making it higher in the sky each day, we will never know here in our corner of Ontario. Even our weather guy said our usually gloomy winter weather has been unnaturally greyer this year. It is interesting that this seems to be happening in other countries as well. And it makes me wonder if greater weather change is afoot- or not.

I'm reading an ebook version of this book below and must say how much I'm enjoying it. It's about a young couple working hard to successfully homestead, work at marriage and create ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under books , bramble blooms , chookshed stitchers challenge , free patterns , youtube videos

Midweek: catching up, indulgence, and a new start from With Strings Attached

Here are my Bramble Blooms blossoms. They're fused (Heat 'n' Bond Light) and sewn with a narrow zigzag stitch.

Sparkling Triangles, continued: I cut the border strips 6" because that was the width of the pattern repeat. You might think the border print is sufficiently busy to make matched seams unnecessary, but I like to try to do that. (Maybe it's a holdover from all those years of garment sewing....). I may trim the borders down an inch, but I may not.

Yesterday was Part III of Barb M's estate sale. Here's my haul -- it worked ...

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Friday check in: Bramble Blooms QAL from With Strings Attached

I've signed up for Audrey's Bramble Blooms QAL. More accurately it is a DAL -- design along -- and I look forward to the exercise in creativity.

The introductory post was about the fabric pull: three colors in stacks, with a variety of prints in each stack.

I started with light green, then went to pink, and finally purple.

Part one was to make a background using fabric from one stack. Here's mine.

They are similar but distinct from one another.

I learned to make pieced backgrounds in a workshop with Pat Sloan and I've made them several ...

added by Nann 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under bramble blooms , can i get a whoop whoop , finished or not friday

Bramble Blooms from Nestlings By Robin

The May issue of AQ Magazine is out and you will
find my Bramble Blooms within its fine pages.

Let's talk fabrics:)

My fabric supplier was very

generous with this HARLOW

collection from Northcott.

There is some truth to having too many decisions:)

Sometimes you need to try a new

technique, quilt style, or in this

case, a new block.

I have an affinity for pinwheel

blocks and tried something new

this time by splitting one square of

a half-square triangle set up

before stitching together.

It gives some fun extra movement.

Then you chain piece

every step of ...

added by Robin 2 years, 11 months ago. under aq magazine , bramble blooms , chain piecing , fabrics , free-motion quilting , fusible applique , half-square triangles , hydrangeas , nestlings by robin , northcott , quilt designer , warm and cool colors

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