Boxing Day Coma

We are having a nice Christmas so far.  Our DS stayed over Christmas Eve and Christmas night and may be coming here again after work tonight.  It has been great to have him here.  He is not getting along with his roommate and is finding things difficult.  He is welcome to stay here until he can find somewhere else to live which I hope will be by Feb 1.    

Leftovers for supper and soup started simmering for supper tomorrow (with homemade noodles).  Yum.

On a quilty note, I finished up Clue 2 and started Clue 3. I am mixing up the methods for construction of the hst's.  I am making some using the magic 8 method and some by using the easy angle ruler.  Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to finish them up and start on the four patches.  Clue 5 should be posted tomorrow morning so I will still be as behind tomorrow as I was today.  Oh well, it is not a race. I am finding that I do not have much variety left in fabric choices.  I sure do not want to buy any more fabric if I don't have to. 

Photos tomorrow as I am too tired to mess around with trying to add photos tonight.

Happy stitching

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

I have not posted for some time because I have been crazy busy.  I finished up some client quilts and made a table runner for my mother for her birthday which was yesterday.  I forgot to take a photo, oops.   I have also started the Celtic Solstice mystery quilt offered by Bonnie Hunter.  I will post some photos this week of my progress once the Christmas festivities are over with.  My favourite day of all is Boxing Day as we do not go anywhere, supper is leftovers and we just veg out.

I have to figure out how to add a photo from my iPad to my blog before I post any pictures.

Happy Stitching

Posting some pictures of completed quilts and my beloved Charlie

It has been some time since I blogged so I thought I better post some pictures of my completed mystery quilts before I start the next one.  I have talked a friend into making her own mystery quilt.  She has fabrics in the colours from a stash her sister-in-law gifted her so why not.

Anyway, here is a picture of my RRCB, on my bed, in my own room.

It looks great on the bed.  The curtains are from Ikea and the rag rug was made by me by using the 'French knitting' method using a four pegged knitting spool.  It took mega yards of fabric to make.

Here is a picture of my Orca Bay completed.  It is a bit too small for the bed.  I do not know why I did not double check the size before I quilted it.  I guess because I still had my bed stuffed into the office and did not have any room to turn around let alone think.

You can see bits of RRCB peeking out underneath and it does not go over the bed on the far side very far.  It did turn out quite nice anyway.

Here is a picture of Charlie getting ready to go to Tim Horton's for morning coffee.

He has to take his dinosaur for the ride.  I love him to bits.

Anyway, back to house work.
Happy quilting.

It is the middle of September already!

It has been ages since I last posted.  The summer has sped by like no ones business.  The weather has been absolutely gorgeous and should continue to be mid 20's for at least another week so spending the day in the basement is not the way to go.

I have not done the machine quilting that I had hoped to do but I have not wasted the summer.  Charlie and I have gone on a lot of good walks and I have played in my flower garden more than I have in the past years.  I have enjoyed that.

One of my missions for the summer was to use up the leftover fabric scraps from last winter's 'Thelma Wynn' project.  I have been going great guns this past week and  I have managed to cut up scraps for two scrappy baby quilts and organized the pieces into something fairly nice.  I also was playing with some navy and yellow bricks to make something that looked nice and also used up all of the fabric and I finally came up with something.  I am not using the yellow because it just screamed ugly at me.  I managed to cut enough bricks for two smaller sized tops and I will see if they need a border once they are pieced.  I took a trip to Fabricland to see if there was anything there to go with the yellow flannel but there was nothing.  I think a trip to Berry St. is in order but I am in no hurry as these quilts don't need to be done until the spring.  I hope to use up most of the scraps by that time.

I bought some small colourful plastic bins to organize all of the scraps and hope to do that tomorrow afternoon while everyone is snoozing.  I hate having a mess to wade through every time I want to work on those baby projects.  I want to make baby bibs with all of the scraps that I cannot use in the quilts.  I saw some samples in Pinterest and thought that would be a great idea to use up some of the pieces.

Pictures of the tops next post.

Happy quilting.

Some photos of the garden

        Today is our 34th wedding anniversary and yesterday was my ?? birthday.  All went well yesterday.  The DH and DS gave me a gift card for Mark's so I went shopping for some badly needed jeans.  Both my jeans and capris were worn out at the crotch and had iron on patches keeping them together.  I was afraid I would be bending over at Safeway one day and I would be arrested for indecent exposure.  Everything at Mark's was pretty picked over but I did find some jeans and I found jean capris at Walmart for $11.00 so I am set.  The t-shirts and blouses in the stores right now are made of such thin fabric that you need to put on two to get any coverage and at my size I don't need any extra bulk.  Major dieting on my horizon I am afraid.  I have to get my mind set.  I think once this last customer quilt is completed I will be able to settle my mind and get things done.

        My mom took my DH and brother and I out for supper for my birthday, so that was good.  I did not have to cook.  We had an enjoyable time.  DH and I just went home after and watched TV with the dog.  DS was with friends and working last night so I saw him for two seconds, in the afternoon, in passing.  He is going through a manic phase right now, I hope he can manage it without going nuts like last year.  I pray.

        Today is our anniversary and I do not know what we will be up to.  We do not have any plans.

        Here are some pictures of the flowers blooming in the garden.  I need to do some work with moving the perennials around in the fall because it is a mess in there.

        I need to find some perennials with larger flowers, everything is small and/or spikey.

Happy quilting.

More Thelma Wynn Project Photos.

        I missed posting some of the photos of baby quilts on my previous post so I am adding another post.  Here goes.

I made most of the quilts hanging and on the tables.  The sleepers and receiving blankets, etc. were made by other church ladies.  I have also included a picture of some pansies that self seeded in my garden.  They have a very pretty colour in real life.

I now must go and see if the Red Velvet cake I made is cool enough for the icing.  Yum.

Happy quilting.

Thelma Wynn Project Quilts and a picture of our lilac shrub in full glory.

I have not taken the time to blog forever so I thought I better post these pictures before they are lost.  There is a picture of the mess on my cutting table of all of the fabric bits I was trying to make into baby quilts.  There are also photos of some of the quilts hung and shown on tables at the tea.  I was so pooped from sewing like a mad woman after that project was done that I have had trouble getting down stairs to sew.  I have organized most of the scraps into groups so that when I get the urge I can just pick up and start making something.  I have a quilt on the machine for Shirley that I must get done before I can tackle any of my own projects.  It has either been too cold downstairs or I have been too busy running around for Mom and us that I have had trouble getting motivated.  Next week it will be completed.  I need some sanity in my life for awhile.

Anyway, here are the photos.

 In the first picture I only made the quilt on the left, in the third picture I only made the centre one, but for the most part the rest of the quilts I made.  These are just a few of the 30 I made.  As a challenge to myself I hope to have made more that that for next year.  I will have a head start because we just started the project in January.

The lilac looks beautiful in real life.  I was finishing off putting the brick edging around the Daylily bed, hence the mess on the ground below.

Happy quilting.