Snow and Slow ... Again

Yep, the snow is falling here too. We are supposed to get more than a cup too. It's pretty when it's falling, not so much when I'm driving. On Thursday night, coming back from work, the snow was coming down so fast it was blinding. It is more peaceful today. 

My son's car has a  black roof ... well not today. 

So I sit and sew. The log cabin is almost finish. Only one more log to go. 

Then, I'll finish the Dresden fan. One blade is not quilted and I want to add some echo stitches around the fan. The space is too big to be left "stitchless". One or two echo lines should be enough. What do you think? 

Here's her entire work. I believe I've omitted to share that picture with you. Sorry. 

Really not my style but still pretty.

She did some quilting in the sashing but all have been marked so it will be easy to do. The last border will be to my discretion as there are no marks to follow. 

Have you caved in to Bonnie's Mystery Lupine and Laughter? I so love that name that it did me in. I assembled a few blocks only which is a good thing because I did them wrong. Bloopers alert! 

Her pink is orange at my place. (of course!) There's suppose to be TWO pink (orange) per hourglass. Well, someone in this household doesn't know how to read, lol. They will become something else like this ... 

If you think you have seen this blue print here before you are right. It is the tiny little 4-patch blue. 

I thought that I used up all the fabric received in the bag but no. There were some long, wide strips that I had stored with the blue (why?) and obviously forgot about. 

Now I have a mind to replace the dark blue with the original blue. I'll take measurement first. I don't want to undo all this just to find out there isn't enough of the original blue to go around. Lol. 

My sweet Raven was very sick through out November 😩 to the point that I started to wonder if it wouldn't be best to put him to sleep. 😭 But then, after 20 days of worrying, the medicines (3 different ones twice daily) finally kicked in. He hated the meds so much that he hide from me most of the time. I missed him! Here, he's sleeping on my favourite chair protected by a mini quilt during his illness. He is now good as new and we can't wait to put this month behind us. 

Here's to a wonderful December to all of you. Cheers! 

Tagging along with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitches. 
Visiting Cynthia at Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap! 

See you there. ;^)

Slow is Nice; Snow ... Not so Much

We have snow again today.

Since the first snowfall on November 09, it hasn't melted completely. 

November 9, 2025, 8PM

It keeps adding and then it rains. Then Snow comes again, and the cycle continues. Yet, they are predicting a green Christmas. Sigh! 

November 23, 2025, 8AM

It's the perfect weather to quilt. 

Someone gave me this partially-quilted quilt. 

what I received

I'm slowly trying to finish it. It will be given to a charity when done (it's not my style) but I still want to honor her work although I'm having a hard time matching her big stitches.

where I'm at

I'm tempted to play with Bonnie's mystery quilt (as I am every year). I would definitely change the colourway. Pink doesn't live here in abundance. Lol. 

Hope you find time to have some fun. 

Enjoy! ;^)

 
Tagging along with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitches. See you there. 
Visiting Cynthia at Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap! 

Well, Look Who's Here !

Yes, I'm still alive ... and sewing.

I mostly worked on kits for the baby quilts the ladies at my group are sewing.

The yellow roses fabric was cut in long stripes when gifted to me a while back. I added a bunch of green fabric to the bag and told the girl to surprise me with a top. I so love what she did.

I'll publish a separate post with just the baby quilts once they are quilted and done. 😉


I did a lot of hand-quilting on Ohio Star Shadow.

Last block to quilt. Yay! 

Sewing down the binding.

And I can now call it a finish! It only took 29 years. All it needs is a label and I can't decide what I want. You'd think I had the time to think about that during those 29 years, lol.


In October, I went to our usual quilting retreat with my girls. So much fun!! So much food! 

Mini 4-Patch in blue got all the blocks made and assembled.

Then, it got more blocks with a darker blue and a border.

The border is so wavy that it looks like a ruffle, lol. I'll have fun quilting this one but I'll manage. It's my monster after all!


The container of triangles was overflowing so I brought it along to do something about that. Some blocks were assembled.

These two were in separate plastic bags so they were easy to put together. The HSTs finish at 1 inch. So many more triangles were sewn into HSTs and squared up but didn't make it into a block yet. I was just having fun sewing HSTs with no quilt, pattern, or layout in mind. And, I got the container into some kind of order with the bigger triangles at the bottom, etc. 

Got one in pink to assemble. 

 

I did walk too, a lot, because it was so beautiful but mostly because it's what I needed. 

The last time I was in Blogland, I was overworked with Real Estate Season, Canada Post were on strike which added to my work load, there were renovation going on to add 16 

View from my sewing machine. Can you see the lake? 

workstations that added to my work load and I had a major baby quilt project to work on. The cherry on top was that Saturday morning, August 30th, the phone call telling me my dear friend lost her battle against cancer. I had to step back. 

Wish I could sit on that chair for a while . . .
but it's a private entrance.

I am better now but not taking any sh*t from anyone, not even from myself. I've slow down the rhythm of the drums I walk to and it suits me just fine. 

Bejeweled golden leaf

Controlling ourselves is harder than it looks; I can't resist chocolate, coffee and fabric. Others things, I make myself believe that I can control them until everything is out of control. For now, I'm taking care of me and my son. I eat a better diet and soak up the sun most days and that's enough. 

I hope you are all doing well too. 

Keep smiling! It looks so good on you. ;^)

Catch up with these girls: 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Kathy at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

I Can't Keep Up

Another week went by with nothing pushed under the needle. Sigh! No aqua sewn. 

But I did sew a bit last weekend. Let's see what got done. 

From the 120 blue squares, 100 of them were joined to little 4 Patch blocks. 

They grew into Double 4 Patch units 

They were joined to more Double 4 Patch units and then ... 

They were 8 blue squares per units. The middle row is sewn with 17 blue squares. This means a single blue squares unit can be added to the beginning of the row, the middle or the end, depending where the same colour is too close together. That's where the 20 spare blocks will come in to play. I might, MIGHT, add some little 4 Patch paired with a darker blue square all around as a "border". I'll see what the quilt says once it is all assembled. 

and some boring Rail Fence units. That's all.

Someone from my past showed up at the office this week. He was good to me and I liked him a lot. Due to mental illness, he had to close his business and didn't hear from him again. So, of course, I took the time to chat with him a bit and I was happy to see how well he is now. I heard myself say to him "If you don't take care of yourself, then who will?"

Friday, August 29, I went to bed at 8pm and woke up Saturday morning, at 7:30am. I think I need to listen to my own words and take care of myself, because if I don't, who will? 

I'll take a break from Blogland for a while. This is not Goodbye, but a simple See you later, my friends. I hope you will all still be in Blogland when I come back. 

Take care, stay safe. I love you all.  🧡💛💚💙💜💖

You can still find me with these ladies this week.  

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Alycia for Finished or NOT Finished Friday

Nina Marie at Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever

What's Up in Aqua

Not much got done this week (read nothing got done this week). The little bit of sewing I did last weekend can all fit in one photo. Ain't that a shame?

One Flying Home block. I'm having difficulty finding the right aqua for this one. It's either the fabric is not big enough for the cuts I need or they don't play well together. Sigh! 

One 18 Bars block made with whatever aqua, turquoise, teal, and blue-green. And only one 9-Patch. 

However I did sort out the red fabrics. It started here ... 

and ended like this.

The basket and the bag are much lighter! Beside the plastic bag are some fabric that can go in kits already set up, just to add more variety. Maybe they'll be used and won't come back. 

On the step, behind the scrap basket, (from left to right) batik (which are usually stored separately), solid red (again stored separately), the pile of red I can cut in 3.5" square for the kit I'm working on and the last pile are scraps big enough to be cut at 6.5" also for kits. I'm very happy with the result. 

Now what I forgot to show in this picture is the bag of little scraps, big enough for crumb blocks. Oops! Also, some of these selected fabric might return to the scrap basket. Once I reached the number of squares I need for the kit, I might stop cutting ... or not. 

The reason I wasn't very productive last week is because of a book. Have you read The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins? If not, don't. Do NOT get that book. It will mess up your life. I just can't put the darn book down. One evening, I read until 11pm. Waking up at 6am was tough. I'm almost done. Hopefully my routine will return to normal after I'm done. 

Okay, I have to get back to it. Only 90-something pages to go. 

Have fun everyone! ;^)

Want more inspiration? Check these ladies' blogs. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Alycia for Finished or NOT Finished Friday

Nina Marie at Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever