It's true. My friend, Christine and I have attended two quilting retreats in March, two weeks apart. (We won't mention that we were away for a week at the end of February at QuiltCon in Raleigh, NC...). This is the end of our quilting retreats for until November, when we have two more. We are both very productive on the retreats and manage to get lots of sewing done. It's amazing what you can accomplish over the course of 2 1/2 or 3 days of concentrated time with no cooking, dishes and other distractions! I spent ...
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read moreI am home from QuiltCon! My friend, Christine, and I had a wonderful time meeting quilters from all over the world, attending lectures, looking at all of the quilts and shopping! I have participated in the #makeaminimakeafriend swap at QuiltCon twice in the past and signed up again this year. This past fall, I was told my swap partner was Katie in Oregon. I asked her to make something that told me about where she lived and she told me she likes fall colours. I did not pick out fabrics or do any sewing until January but I was spending ...
Almost all of my sewing time this week was spent making a wall hanging for a swap which will take place next week. I have spent months ruminating over a design and colours and fabrics. I am really pleased with the end result and am in the process of adding the hand stitches to the binding and hanging sleeve. I will show my finished quilt and the quilt that I receive from my swap partner in my next blog post.
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Before the pandemic, I used to invite a few friends over for a sewing day several times a year. Today, three friends came here for a sewing/embroidery/knitting/cross stitch day. It's fun to sit and chat while we work on our projects. I made everyone basket block pincushions as a souvenir of our day together.
I spent some time this past week getting my main sewing project ready. Last year, one of my Rainbow Scrap Projects was four 6.5" crumb blocks for each of 12 colours. I have been thinking about how I will use these ...
read moreI made my husband and my daughter pillowcases for Christmas but ran out of time to make one for myself so I did that this week. The two main fabrics were purchased in the East Coast ... read more
Kathy, our Slow Sunday Stitching organizer and cheerleader, keeps a journal/calendar where she documents what she sews/knits etc. each day. I decided I would track my stitching activities each day this year on a wall calendar which I will keep in my sewing room. So far, I have stitched and/or knitted every day this year! We will see how this goes. I don't have a goal of how many days each week I want to stitch--I'm just going to track my activities.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and some time to relax this past week once the festivities were over. I have managed to do a bit of knitting this week as well as some un-sewing (more on that later in this post!). During the month of December, I worked on knitting a new hat for my husband whenever he was out or otherwise occupied. Despite my best efforts, I did not get it done in time and he ended up unwrapping an unfinished gift. He was surprised and pleased with my gift to him, which makes it all worthwhile ...
read moreGood Morning! Finn and our daughter arrived last night for the holidays so the festivities can begin now! I did a bit of cross stitch on my Christmas project. The wreath is getting there! I hope to have more time to work on this after Christmas Day!
I have been sewing a fair bit this past week, finishing off gifts for friends and family. While I can't show you pictures of my projects yet, here is evidence that the sewing machine has not been idle. I use a make up brush to clean my machine--lots of fluff! My sewing ... read more
I finished off the centre snowflake and started the wreath above it this week in my Christmas cross stitch project. This pattern is called "Invierno" from Satsuma Street. It is made up of nine motifs with a purple frame around each one. I have a ways to go but this will be my relaxing slow stitching project over the next few weeks. I will have it framed to hang up before next Christmas.
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This past weekend, my friend Christine and I went to the semi-annual Oxford Guild Quilt Retreat in Stratford. We both were very productive at the retreat--sewing morning, noon and night with breaks for meals and sleeping only! This is why there was no blogpost here this past weekend. I brought lots of projects with me--heaven forbid I run out of things to sew!
I made a couple of Christmas gifts, one of which I can show here now. This little wall hanging is for my MIL for her room in the nursing home where she lives. She loves Christmas and ...
read moreLate last week, I picked up my Weight of Love quilt from my local long armer, Julie. My goal for the week was to have it bound in time to bring it to the Oxford Quilter's Guild meeting on Thursday for show and tell. I finished the hand stitching on Thursday morning. Yahoo!
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