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The week got away from me and I did not show my favourite quilts from QuiltCon so I will show them to you in this post along with my stitching efforts from this past week. I'll start with my stitching...
I have finished the flowers to the right of the rabbit in my Spring cross stitch picture and I'm now working on the carrots and beets under the rabbit and the flowers on the left side. I'm surprised all these flowers and vegetables have not been eaten by the bunny--that's what happened in our backyard when ...
read moreChristine and I left early for our quilting retreat with the Oxford Guild this past Friday because there was a winter storm coming and we wanted to get there and be set up before the snow started to fall. The snow started in the afternoon and kept going all night. In the morning there was almost a foot of snow (30cm for the metric folks). We were all snowed in and loving it. We did not lose power and we had our sewing machines and lots of fabric and projects on hand to work on. It was a great weekend ...
read moreI spent a little time each day this past week adding stitches to my Spring cross stitch picture. The rabbit is coming along nicely. Finn is here for his annual visit while my daughter is busy at work and he doesn't mind lying beside me as I stitch. He is used to doing that while my daughter works on her cross stitch when he is home with her.
My daughter's picture of the city of Ottawa is coming into focus as she adds more colours. The giant spider is a statue called "Maman" in from the the National ... read more
Almost all of my sewing time this week was devoted to finishing the turquoise and gray wedding quilt. Several hours were spent at the sewing machine, adding lines of quilting with turquoise thread using my walking foot. The herringbone part of the quilt was quilted with diagonal lines following the pattern of angles of the turquoise strip piecing.
I have been missing in action the last couple of Sundays for my weekly blogpost. Our Christmas took some unexpected turns this year ---as the saying goes, life happens when you are making other plans. Our daughter's dog, Finn, had surgery on Dec 19th to remove a broken tooth. After the surgery, he went into kidney failure and was in the animal hospital for 10 days in intensive care to receive treatments to improve his kidney function. Thankfully, his kidneys are now working normally again and he is home and feeling much better. The vets at the hospital called ...
read moreThe end of the year is a good time to look back at what we have accomplished in the past 12 months. Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs hosts and annual "Best of..." party and so I will be linking this post up to her blog. I have done lots of machine sewing, hand stitching and knitting this year and it is hard to pick out which projects were my favourites. Here is my best effort!
1. My favourite hand stitching project was "Love Birds"--a counted cross stitch picture that I made for a friend's daughter and her husband ...
read moreI have accomplished a lot this week, but not not much of it was in the sewing room! I did do some mending, made a quilt back for a comfort quilt, and sewed a hanging sleeve on a gift. I delivered 113 placemats to Meals on Wheels organizers on behalf of the Oxford Quilter's Guild and volunteered at the local Christmas Hamper program for a day (this is a weekly event until Christmas). Today, I cleaned out some of our gardens --cut back dead perennials and filled several brown bags with garden debris and leaves. Last Sunday, my husband ...
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Hazel 6 months old |
Seems the holidays have come earlier this year! We are busier than ever.
Maybe it's the new kitten we adopted? Or maybe, we have adapted the slower pace forced from Covid surges.
Either way - we are looking forward to new projects and new opportunities in 2022! Watch this space for more details.
I was pleased with Carol's mention of my social media posts in Issue 146 of Quiltmania. It was fun to see which thumbnail photos she selected. It was a complete surprise to me!
More on this issue HERE
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Each year, the Elgin Piecemakers Guild issues a challenge to their members. This past year, we were given a piece of insulbrite thermal batting and asked to make something for our kitchens using scraps. On Thursday night, we met in person for the first time in ages and revealed our projects. There were oven mitts, hot pads, a casserole carrier, tea cosies, etc. Many in the group used selvages in their projects. I decided to raid my denim stash (from old jeans) for my lasagna pan hot pad. I have a large orange lasagna pan and always have to use ...
read moreHere is a picture of the finished wall hanging with part of it covered...I'm not revealing who this is for just yet. The barn is quilted with vertical lines and the roof ... read more
It's been a busy week here--we are having our three bedrooms painted this coming week and then new carpeting will be installed in mid October. This means that everything must be moved out of all of the bedrooms and closets. This has resulted in lots of purging and trips to the thrift store to donate items we no longer need. Lots of work, but all of our efforts will pay off in the end. I did take a few sewing breaks this week and managed to finish off the charm square quilt top. I made this quilt by the ...
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