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 Another productive afternoon was had at our Prayers and Squares group yesterday. Tammy and I got 2 quilt tops layered, but I don’t have pictures of that. I brought one of them home to do the quilting, hopefully before next Thursday. I’ll take it back and pass it on for someone else to do the binding. That’s one of the many things I love about our group, everyone pitches in to do the thing that they are good at. Susan has been working on sewing down some Dresden Plates that were donated to us onto their backgrounds ...

 We had a great day yesterday at our Prayers and Squares group. One of our summer ladies is up for a couple of weeks and it was lovely to see her. Marg’s sampler is finished and it has the honour of being the first quilt of the lear to be given out. Pat has been working on a scrappy strip quilt lately. She is hiding behind the pieces. Back in the summer we started a member’s sampler where each of us took some of the focus fabric and the went to the Quilters Cache website and picked a ...

 We had a bunch of finishes this past week, some tops, some quilts. We worked really hard this past year, as well as this past week. Our final tally for the year was 44 lap sized quilts given out. That’s quite an accomplishment for our small group of ladies. The math says that is one every 8 days. OK, so back to this week. Tammy started a new project, one she found in our kits cupboard. It is another pre cut kit from Joannes that was donated to us. It is all bright colours in a garden theme. Janet ...

 Another productive day was spent yesterday at our Prayers and Squares group. We were all concentrating so hard that it was even uncharacteristically quiet in the room, aside from the hum of the sewing machines. Barbara finished the charm quilt she’s been working on. She is planning a skinny border in brown to completely finish it. Tammy has been working on sampler blocks from a kit. We finally laid out the finished blocks for a picture. The original design for these blocks was a queen sized quilt. We will be making 2 lap quilts from them. I finally finished ...

 We made lots of progress yesterday at our Prayers and Squares group. We now have 10 out of 16 blocks done for the Northern Wilderness Renewed fundraiser quilt. The last 6 are all in progress. So another couple of weeks should see all the blocks finished. After that we will need to go on a shopping trip to pick up backing and sashing fabrics.

Sharon finished this fun jelly roll race quilt. The black fabric with what look like dots is actually black cats with their eyes showing. We layered it yesterday and I brought it home to do the ...

 We have a bit of an inventory of finished quilts built up at our Prayers and Squares group, so we were able to focus on working on our fundraiser quilt for next year. It is a pattern called Northern Wilderness Renewed, found here. It is a lot of fun to work on, choosing fabrics and colours. We are trying to do colours that relate more to the Muskoka area of Ontario Canada, rather than the Alaska landscape that inspired the original quilt. This fusible appliqué technique is new to some of the ladies, so we had an opportunity for learning ...