Lynnleigh is in the 1st grade; she has wanted, for the longest time, to learn to sew. She and her brother are staying here for a few days and last week's early dismissal days and snow day from school afforded the perfect amount of time to get her started. The lessons are intentionally short, I want her to continue to enjoy it. She's such an eager-beaver. I filled a tin (thank you, Barbara Anne
read moreLynnleigh is in the 1st grade; she has wanted, for the longest time, to learn to sew. She and her brother are staying here for a few days and last week's early dismissal days and snow day from school afforded the perfect amount of time to get her started. The lessons are intentionally short, I want her to continue to enjoy it. She's such an eager-beaver. I filled a tin (thank you, Barbara Anne
read moreI am still operating with my guiding word for the year: "vision"; I have that, but time is FLYING already. It seems like I take one step forward and two back. Sigh. As promised in my last post, I am reporting on my progress. Here are all the scraps from my bin cut precisely and accurately into sizes that will play nicely together. This amount of work took me two days! So, as impressive as that
read moreI am still operating with my guiding word for the year: "vision"; I have that, but time is FLYING already. It seems like I take one step forward and two back. Sigh. As promised in my last post, I am reporting on my progress. Here are all the scraps from my bin cut precisely and accurately into sizes that will play nicely together. This amount of work took me two days! So, as impressive as that
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Well golly gosh, here we are once more at the end of another year, and this time it will also be the beginning of another decade. The mere thought of the year 2000 used to be such a far fetched fantasy, and yet now we are at the end of twenty years of this new millennium. Many things have happened, most of them lovely, a few bad, but life goes on, and God is always Good.
Here are a few last photos of various things and I have included some of my favourite quilts over the past decade. I hope ...
I told you in this week's PIW post that we spent Thanksgiving week at Disney, right? Right. I thought you might enjoy just a few of the pictures I took while we were there. Most of these are from those moments when I was watching a grandie. The littlest one is there in the first picture. He smiled through every moment.
Had you thought I'd fallen off the face of the earth? I didn't. I simply got caught acting like a kid
We suffered through vacationed in Disney. With adult children. And their children.
So, yeah, children and grandchildren and Disney.
What were we thinking? That insanity fun is a good thing at 59 years of age? Or was it that short, squatty legs (I'm 5'3")could trot behind keep up with long legs? (Rory is 6'1".)
So the truth is that we went to Disney with one of the Marcotte families for the purpose of ...
We had the youngest two grandchildren for a few days last week, it was wonderful and BUSY! They're in the third and first grades now and they both have lots of fun activities besides school. Our son had emailed me calendar items to add to my daily schedule as reminders but I find that I need a spreadsheet. It's the way I visualize and plan. It might be antiquated but that works for me, and so,
read moreWe had the youngest two grandchildren for a few days last week, it was wonderful and BUSY! They're in the third and first grades now and they both have lots of fun activities besides school. Our son had emailed me calendar items to add to my daily schedule as reminders but I find that I need a spreadsheet. It's the way I visualize and plan. It might be antiquated but that works for me, and so,
read moreI'm trying to keep this roll going after the Sunflower quilt. I managed to put two baby quilts together for Shala's newest grandchildren and enjoyed making something that was small and simple. The little pink quilt has an embroidered centre that I did while re-familiarising myself with the Janome MC500e Embroidery machine. It was totally from my stash. The boy's quilt is a little range of fabric I fell in love with in a quilt shop after Lucas was born. Couldn't resist of course.
Now I have Kea's Star Wars quilt up on my design ...
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| Stitched by me; pattern from Kathy Schmitz, One Stitch at a Time Embroidery Club |
Meme's stepdad is a volunteer fireman. Her mom decided that they would be a family of firefighters for Halloween. Meme, however, can't seem to say fire-anything. When asked what she wants to be for Trick or Treat, she answer, "a fire-ah." So we made her a fire-ah costume. Her little brother is going to be a dalmatian. I haven't seen his costume yet.
I am happily reading Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. It's slow going—I'm on page 113 of 560—but the story is getting more interesting as I advance. Pasternak won, but declined, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 for this volume about Russian life beginning with the Bolshevik Revolution moving through World War I to 1930. One reason that the novel is a struggle is that I have to stop and research events, people, terminology, and so on, quite often. It's a big undertaking, to say the least. Why am I doing it? That's another ...I finished my first quilting project of 2018 this week! I really have not been doing much sewing since we moved to the mountains, but finally I have unpacked everything in the basement studio and uncovered the Gammill longarm.
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| Little Trees quilt, Jeanne Turner McBrayer |
“…funny things are everywhere.” Dr. Seuss My goal this year is to finish projects. We all have them; those UFO’s hanging out in boxes and bins. Funny thing, I don’t seem to be getting anywhere too fast. How do you get from there to here, or…from here to there? My UFO’s keep multiplying. I […]
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