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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 moreI had the opportunity to work on 2 of the new patterns coming our for Meags and Me. I love pattern testing for these guys! Patterns I did were Tweet Tweet and Bird Brain. Tweet Tweet is at the quilter's and I just finished Bird Brain last night.Here are pics from Bird Brain.I did a machine free motion straight stitch around the applique.I used the same for the legs, beak and ( ) on the birds.I
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 spent some quality time with my sewing machine this week. The Elgin Piecemakers Guild makes comfort quilts for adult chemo patients at our local hospital so each month, we each have to make a block in a certain colour scheme. I have my first four blocks for 2023 made. Here they are:
January: Blue and white.
February: Red, white and blue
March: Purple, pink and white
April: Blue and purple churn dash.
The condition of my sewing room has deteriorated over the last month or so to the point where I could not find my rotary cutter... it was time for a clean up. I spent over an hour putting things away, folding fabric, sorting through piles, etc. and still no rotary cutter. I tried to think of the last time I used it...then, I remembered I used it at a recent guild sewing day---it was in the bag I took to the sewing day. Oh well, the sewing room is looking much better and I had a new project planned ...
read moreI 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 moreI have been furiously sewing this week to finish off some Christmas gifts in time for the big day. Just a little bit more to do! My cousin and her husband came for lunch on Friday. We do not get to see each other very often but often talk on the phone about our mutual genealogy project--shaking the family tree on our mothers' side of the family to see what we can find out. The majority of our family members are Scottish with some Irish as well. I made my cousin a wide open zippered pouch with some fabric I ...
read moreI used some leftover purple fabric for the binding and hand sewed it down a couple of days this week as I ... read more
You may have noticed that I was missing in action last weekend...no blog post! Christine and I were away for the weekend at Camp Kintail. The camp hosts two crafter's retreats every year and we try to attend both. We both made great progress on the projects we brought with us and the meals and accommodations were fabulous! The camp was decorated for Christmas, inside and out. The other retreaters were sewing, knitting, crocheting, doing paper crafts, making cards, making blankets, etc. It was fun to see what everyone was up to and to visit with friends, old ...
read moreFor many reasons, this has been a very busy week! Today was our church Christmas Bazaar so I was adding some quilting to some placemats every time I had a bit of time to sew this week. For this set, I quilted along the red stripes both vertically and horizontally, creating a grid.
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Finny was posing so nicely that I just had to get his pic today.Last night before bed these 2 were co-opting my sewing space.We were at Avery's the other day and he was taking the scooper off his lego truck.He would say "help me".Then Papa asked him if he was going to take it off again and this series of photos says it all.Clearly the answer was YESSilly papa!I got a good photo of Cole showing
read moreI have been working on some secret Christmas sewing all week. It is a hand stitching project and I just love how it is turning out! Unfortunately, I can't show any pictures until after December 25th.
This weekend, Christine and I are going on a retreat with the Oxford Quilter's Guild. I spent a couple of hours Wednesday evening gathering projects to take with me. I like to bring a variety of things with me so I have a choice. Of course, I have a couple of projects to work on by hand, including this cute sheep ornament ...
read moreI have not one but two finishes to share this week! I quilted the baby quilt that I made for the church bazaar this week using light yellow thread and my walking foot to create a rectangular grid. The backing is donated minke in light green which goes perfectly with the colours on the front of the quilt. The binding is made from the same Kaffe fabric that was used to make the spinning four patch blocks.
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