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Farm & Garden... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

Here it is summer...

and I haven't even posted Spring images !

This is in the backyard by the guest house...

Whiskey barrels make great plant stands.

The Wisteria vine really put on a show...

Wisteria blooms...

More whiskey barrels by the grape arbor...

Check out the size of the lime hosta...

We tore out all of the rhodies in front of the house

last fall and are going

low maintenance flower beds.

I am still looking for landscape rock to fill in

the flower bed with the whiskey barrels.

We removed all of the iris from this flower bed ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 9 months, 2 weeks ago. under farm , flowers , garden

Time Wasters, Geraniums, Fair Food, Solidarity Blocks from Canadian Needle Nana

Philip Jacobs, a designer for Free Spirit, puts such detail into his flower renderings. Here is his "Geranium" fabric beautifully defying the old adage that blue and green should never be seen except together in the washing machine.

And here are my winter geraniums enjoying the sun on the back deck.

Coming into a second blooming. I pinched them back so they would bush out and not grow up and leggy.

I'm reading Emma Donahue's Haven. So far about a quarter in, I am enjoying it. Three Irish monks trying to survive on an isolated island during a ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 9 months, 3 weeks ago. under books , flowers , food , solidarity blocks

Simple Beauty from From the Strawberry Patch...

The simple beauty of an afternoon in June~Life is Good!

added by Mrs. Goodneedle 10 months ago. under butterflies , flowers , nature , perennials

Simple Beauty from From the Strawberry Patch...

The simple beauty of an afternoon in June~Life is Good!

added by Mrs. Goodneedle 10 months ago. under butterflies , flowers , nature , perennials

Free Patterns, Blue Courthouse Steps, Rosy Garden from Canadian Needle Nana

The rose bushes are all in bloom. This year the first blooms opening up were tinged by pink because of the cooler temperatures we had had when they were buds...low single digits overnight and staying cooler during the day.

These hardy bushes will bloom all summer and into October as I noted last fall. The bees love them too. I must look where I could purchase more of them.

Sitting waiting for grandson one day, I watched the chinstrap Canada Geese stand about in parking lot puddles. It was very hot that day and they just stood there looking ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 10 months ago. under birds , courthouse steps , flowers , free patterns , rainbow neighbourhood

Moda Love Quilts... from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I've been piecing Moda Love Quilts

This is the first Moda Love quilt top

I pieced with 5 inch charm squares...

I had another charm pack in the stash,

so I pieced another one...

I was not happy with this lay out...

I thought the inner star points should be red...

So, I ripped out the center of the quilt and

pieced red star points...

Much better with red star points

and the final red border treatment...

I found a mini 2.5 inch charm pack

in the stash...

You can see from the piece of paper,

that this ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 10 months, 1 week ago. under cattle , charm squares , cows , farm , flowers , garden , traditional quilts

Rainbow Neighbourhood, Flowers, Dads from Canadian Needle Nana

Hello all, I've been very busy with family stuff and not having many spare moments to visit you, my blogging friends. And I'm beat in the evenings but everything is going along well overall and I seem to have entered a phase where my stress and worry have lessened. I'm very grateful for the positives of life and being able to stick to my mantra of one day at a time.

Supposedly squirrel proof but definitely not chipmunk proof. Note his cheeks are full.

The garden is making me so happy this year. All the extra weeding ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 10 months, 1 week ago. under flowers , quilting , rainbow neighbourhood , wildlife

Roses are glorious flowers from Art In Search

I admit, I was always afraid of growing roses. However, with some advice and help, I am robustly planting them. I stick to shrub roses. I have a tiny yard, but there is always room for another rose. I love the David Austin roses and I have also been buying some from Heirloom roses- own root roses, not grafted. They have big sales and they have great how to videos. I do have to do titanic battles with Japanese beetles at times, althought right now, they are absent. I have had to fence them in because the insane rabbits ...

added by Linda Swanekamp 10 months, 1 week ago. under flowers

Rainbow House, Garden Blooms, Cardinal Couple from Canadian Needle Nana

I showed you Mr. and Mrs. American Goldfinch- here are Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal. Not a great photo but it isn't often they are this close together. They are around a lot so I think nesting nearby.

My arms are a little tired typing. We trimmed low hanging branches up and down the laneway and it was my job to gather them from the ground and take to various big piles around the property. I used the wheelbarrow and my arms got a bit of a workout which is good for them. Much more of this to be done ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 10 months, 1 week ago. under birds , flowers , gardening , rainbow neighbourhood

Red House Block, Plus Quilt Borders and Help Needed from Canadian Needle Nana

We seem to be down to just one ground hog-this fellow. After the dogs gave him a little chase in the back yard one day, I now see him more regularly out front and on the side lawn. There's about 9 more acres he could explore so I'm not sorry he's not in the fenced back yard.

The crocuses opened and faded quickly in the intense heat we had -that was a little bit sad. But a traditional sign of rebirth in the garden however brief.

The dogwood trees are in bloom also. Many of them here ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under flowers , food , plus quilt , quilting , rainbow neighbourhood , wildlife

Table Runner Done and Cross Stitch from The Cozy Quilter

I finished the lilac stars table runner binding off last weekend for slow Sunday stitching. It is now ready for gifting! I added a lilac print stripe on the back to make it long enough.

I managed to do some cross stitching most days this week so now I have two sunflowers done and parts of a few leaves. There are four more smaller sunflowers in this quadrant of the picture.

My daughter has been adding more colours to her Ottawa cityscape. Finn is a good cross stitch holder, don't you think???

I spent some time in my sewing ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , slow sunday stitching , table runners

Applique, Music, Free Patterns, Rainbow Neighbourhood from Canadian Needle Nana

The sun came out and dried up all the rain...yes that happened last Friday. Glorious sunshine almost every day since. Temps are a bit cool and there are frost warnings at night. It is shivery still in the shade, but the sunshine makes up for it. Daffodils are blooming and the tiny leaves are appearing on trees. Several of the indoor plants are budding. I'm itching to get these outside.

I began stitching this applique block during the Coronation. I thought it a little tiara like. A dresden block for my next Rainbow house, a pink one.

I ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under applique , flowers , free patterns , rainbow neighbourhood

Oxford Guild Quilt Show from The Cozy Quilter

I attended our guild quilt show on Friday and Saturday this week--our first show since before COVID. I entered 9 quilts in the show and took pictures of them in the venue. There were several of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects including "All the Colours" based on a pattern by Gudrun Erla called Haldora.

"Scrappy 36 Patch"

"Scrappy Drunkard's Path" and "In Formation"

I put one bed sized quilt in the show--"Memories of Iceland"--the pattern is by Gudrun Erla and is called "Lupine".

"30's Plus Sign Baby Quilt"

"Scraps on Point"

( I was very happy that ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , oxford quilters guild , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Little Tulips from TheEclecticAbuela

Little Tulips (35" x 40")

I tried another Log Cabin pattern!

added by TheEclecticAbuela 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under baby quilt , flowers , log cabin , quilt backing

Quiche, Table Topper, Turquoise House Lesson, A Bee To Embroider from Canadian Needle Nana

Yes the Coronation was wonderful...our King is crowned! I loved every minute of the t.v. footage and I made my Coronation Quiche for the day. Daughter gave me this flat of fresh eggs including some duck eggs.

I used four of them for the quiche. My finished quiche was probably the least like the official recipe it could be and still be quiche. For starters I couldn't find broad beans. So I knew then there would have to be substitutions. I sauted a little onion and some bacon bits to give added flavour. I did add spinach ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 11 months, 2 weeks ago. under flowers , free patterns , ned , quilting , recipes

Resurrecting an Old UFO from The Cozy Quilter

Back in October of 2014, I took a class called "Overlapping Tiles" with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Malby. At the end of the day, I rolled up my project in a piece of flannel design wall, gathered up my fabrics and put all of it in a bin, never to even look at it again until this past Monday. I knew it was in my sewing room because every so often, I would move the bin around, always thinking that I should get back to this project and get it done. The last time I moved the bin, I remembered ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 11 months, 3 weeks ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , kaffe fassett , overlapping tiles , slow sunday stitching

Free Patterns, EPP Scrappy Plus Quilt, Turkeys, First Flowers from Canadian Needle Nana

The first and only flowers in the garden to open so far are these miniature Daffodils. They popped up in an area full of low growing shrub used for hedges - I don't know the name but may be Juniper. But I think the thick shrub kept them protected somehow during the adverse spring weather.

The turkeys have been walking through lately and I was quite taken with this male travelling with four females. Wow to all those feathers!

He is surprisingly colourful with blue around his eyes and an interesting red as well. I'll say again I'm ...

added by Jocelyn is Canadian Needle Nana 12 months ago. under birds , epp , flowers , free patterns , plus quilt , rainbow neighbourhood

Slow Stitching Report from The Cozy Quilter

I spent a few hours this week hand stitching sleeves on my quilts for the upcoming Oxford Guild quilt show..5/9 are done. The three larger quilts still need their sleeves sewn on. I can get them done this week.

I only managed to work on my sunflower cross stitch once this week so there is only a small change from last week. I'm hoping to finish off this flower this week. We will see how much time there is after sewing the sleeves on the other three quilts.

Finn had a haircut this week. He was looking ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 12 months ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Sunflowers, Sleeves and a Quilt Show! from The Cozy Quilter

More colourful petals were added to the sunflower in the centre of my project this week. This picture will end up being a 12" circle so there is a long way to go still. I like the turquoise background--the colours in the sunflower really pop.

I may not get as much cross stitching done this week as I have entered 9 quilts into our guild quilt show in early May and I need to hand stitch the sleeves onto 8 of the quilts. (the smallest one already had a sleeve). This afternoon, I made sleeves for 6 quilts and they ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 1 year ago. under counted cross stitch , finn , flowers , gardens , quilt show , slow sunday stitching

Apple Core Quilt....DONE ! from May Your Bobbin Always Be Full

I began piecing this apple core quilt top

in Jackson, Wyoming in 2009...

I stopped at a quilt shop in Jackson,

purchased the template and fabrics

and began cutting out apple core shapes...

I spent the next year stitching on the GO !

with the applecore quilt

as my take-a-long piecing project...

Hand Piecing while traveling

is so relaxing and rewarding...

I spent the last week putting the finishing touches

on the Apple Core Quilt...

Here it is on our bed.....DONE !

I had FUN incorporating a few Kaffee Fassett

fabrics into this quilt...

The binding and label are all DONE ...

added by LuAnn Kessi 1 year ago. under apple core quilt , chickens , fabulous finishes , flowers , garden , hand pieced , take-a-long quilt , traditional quilts

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