My friend, Christine, and I had a few days away at the cottage last weekend. We brought our sewing machines, projects, and handwork with us, as well as some books to read and good food to eat. It was a pretty relaxing weekend. A storm blew through and the power was off for 12 hours, but we found lots to do. We even toasted bagels and boiled water for tea on the BBQ!
I started a Tiny House quilt (online class by Jo Avery). My houses still need roofs and chimneys but I did didn't have the right colour ...
read moreAbove average temperatures for several weeks and then suddenly it was cold and windy. I guess it is an indication to stay indoors and sew :-D
Should you need a new pattern, Fireworks is now available in my Etsy Shop as a standalone pattern. You can get it at a discount of 25% for one week.
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| Fireworks |
Fireworks is a simple pattern that requires no special rulers/templates and is NOT paper-pieced, making it suitable for all skill levels.
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| Brightness |
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| Walking Foot Quilting |
Fireworks was first published in Make Modern's Issue 59.
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| Thank you, Paul |
I used Island Batik ...
read moreKathy, 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.
Swirling Leaves 3
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| Final (?) leaf placement |
Scrappy Yellow Placemat
Me: Sugar is not my friend.
Paul: Of course not. It is your side piece.
Me: Side piece?
Paul: The guy who texts "you up?"
Me: Like booty call?
Paul: Yes, booty call.
Me: It does go to my booty.
Paul: So you are coming?
Me: I won't say no to a booty call.
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| Ice cream with Paul - Sweet! |
Hi! I hope that you're enjoying the rest of the fall.
read moreMost of my sewing this past week was by hand. I finished quilting the Quilt for a Survivor of a Residential School on Monday and added the binding by machine on Tuesday, leaving the hand sewing of the binding for several car trips we made on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. It's been hot here so having a quilt on my lap was a bit warm but I directed the A/C vents towards me and managed to finish the hand sewing without melting! First, a few close ups of the quilting. I used navy thread top and bottom and ...
read moreMay's car is parked in June's driveway.
It is May's mess that has led to June's stress. I am not thrilled about it but the sad truth is this - unless we move May's car out of June's driveway, June cannot go anywhere or do anything.
Angela said that May RSC colors were Sage and Forest Green. With all that was happening in May (international travel, recovering from international travel, catching up with work due to travel, Covid, recovering from Covid, nursing Paul as he recovered from Covid, the Positivity QAL set up and launch ...
read moreI tackled a UFO this week--they will not get done unless I work on them! I participated in a round robin with some members of the Toronto Modern Guild last summer and made a wall hanging out of my centre block with a spool border made by Terri. The other borders/blocks will be used in future projects. I found some appropriate backing fabric and pieced some batting scraps before pin basting and quilting it with my walking foot. My slow stitching project this week was sewing the binding down. It is the same fabric as the background gray around ...
read moreFinn is here! Our daughter is quite busy at work for the next few weeks so we have Finn here to keep us company. He loves to sit on the back of the couch and keep an eye on the comings and goings outside, as well as watch my husband and I. Finn likes to keep track of his people. He's staring at me as I type this blogpost on the computer...obviously, I need supervision!
Finn is not allowed in my sewing room so I have a baby gate up at the doorway so he can still see ...
read moreStill doing the curved piecing. I cannot tell you how many of those curved borders I have done by now...feels like dozens.
Wishing everybody a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Welcome! I do have some free motion quilting (FMQ) to show you, but not on my son's quilt...my Jag is getting a long overdue tune-up and it could take a few weeks.
Creating an improv quilt during a playdate
The Out of the Box Fibre Artist Group had a playdate which I attended, since at the last minute, I had decided to take the day off work. Our playdate host, one of our members, did a great job of introducing us to improv piecing and stripes. Who knew that there was anything to say about stripes other than ...
read more- improvisational piecing
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