I've Had It! Enough! (photo heavy)

Yep! I got enough! I'm done! Throwing the towel in . . . the kitchen sink and all too. 

I'm not trying to "fix" Blogger once again just so it messes it all up again in a few months. 

Once again your comments on my previous posts are NOT coming to my email inbox like it is supposed to. Like it is programmed to do!

Every time there's an update, there's an issue. How many more emails do I need to send to Blogger to make them understand the problem. They're the techies! They should know the problem. I . . . we don't need this frustration. So I give up.

My solution : (might not be the best but here it is) From now on, I will answer your comments, questions, suggestions, etc. in the following post. Might not be very practical but it is the best I can think of for now. Is that agreeable with you? 

Let's move on to more enjoyable things, like baby quilts. I've received a few more so let's start the parade. 

This is my own County Clare quilt (sew along from Bonnie Hunter) which I quilted and Françoise bind for me. I don't understand why it's always showing with a blue tint. It's more white in person. And so is the backing too. 

The Potato Chip quilt that I was very slowly working on turned into a baby quilt. 

I added the green and grey checker to make it big enough. I might make another one. It's so scrappy. The backing is scrappy too. Love it. 

The following 2 quilts were surprises. I prepare kits (as you might know) baby quilts in a bag and the volunteers are to take the bag home and sew the top. Then the volunteer brings back the top so I can pair with a batting, backing and binding. This new lady to the group thought she had to do the entire quilt. So, I gave her two kit bags to take home and she brought me back a finished (well, two) finished quilts. Just wonderfully done. 

All quilted and bound, even though there was no binding in the kit bag. She used flannel for the backing like we do for all the baby quilts. Thank you again, sweet Francine. 

She did a little heart embroidery on the back. Too cute!! (I hope you can see it.)

Some of you might remember this one. I finished the hand-quilting that someone had started on this one and again Françoise bind it for me. I told her to use the border for the binding by folding it to the back. It was wide enough as I didn't quilt it to the edge but she found the perfectly matching pink in her stash. Thanks, Françoise. 

I didn't do much sewing but I was invited to a Tea Party of the real kind. So much fun: laughed until the tears came running down my inner tights, if you get my drift, lol. 

Some of the ladies who organized this wonderful afternoon for us. 

We brought our own tea cup and saucer. Most of us (if not all of us) had a story to tell about the cup. 

You didn't have a cup? It's okay, there were some spares.  All different. All beautiful and dainty. 

Every table had a different table runner and the "tea master" assigned to the table had an apron made with the same print. 

This was my table. Yes, the big mug with the Eiffel tower on it is my cup. I am so French even during an English Tea Party, lol. 

My dear friends, Françoise and Lucie. 

and with moi! 

I hope the Artisanat will do this again next year. It's so much fun to dress up and be a little snob for a few hours, lol. 

Reply to comments from previous posts: 

- Thank you all who have commented on the multi projects I have in production mode. I got many comments about the stripe binding. So many of you also use stripe fabric for binding. It always looks great. 

- Thank you for all the wonderful comments regarding the bake sale and craft show. 

- Lin asked how many baby quilts so far. Well, at that time, there were 25 quilts. With the 8 shown in this post, the total is 33 quilts. And more to come.😊

- A special hello to LuAnn. So good to hear from you. LuAnn likes the Framed 9-Patch that is my header at the moment. Thanks, LuAnn. And yes, copy it. I want to see yours. ;^)

- Thank you all for the encouraging words regarding the decluttering. Yes, around here it's like dirty dishes. I need to do it daily otherwise . . . 😱

- To Viola: your comment made me laugh. Thanks for the giggles. 

- Time4Stitchn asked where will the magazines be send. That's a good question: I don't know, lol. I will bring them to the craft group I belong to (The Artisanat). I'm sure some ladies will pick some up (at least I hope so). Then, the magazines will be dropped to another quilter's guild by a friend of mine in the hope that more magazines will be adopted. This cycle might happen once or twice more (through different ladies and guilds) before the last (few) magazines are brought to a thrift store. I always try to give items to people I know before bringing them to a thrift store. 

Well, if you made it this far, I thank you. 💓

If you are wondering about Friends' Favourite progress, well it's not going very fast lately but still some more blocks happened. 

Ten more blocks to go. Sigh! 

Hope you find time to sew because it's good for the soul. ;^) 

As always, I'll try to catch these talented ladies' link-party. See you there. 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

And Sew I Did.

(For some unknown reasons, your comments are not coming to my email box again! So tired of this shenanigan. I'll try to reply in my posts. Thanks for understanding and your patience.) 

or is it "And Sew, I did"? Lol. Either way, I did sew. Whoowhoo!
It was not all orange but some orange went under the needle. 

Edith from Inch by Inch said in her post : 
Orange - symbolizing creativity, passion, and vitality. Well, no wonder I love this colour. Lol.

In the middle of March, I reached the half point on the Friends' Favourite quilt. (See this post)

Since then, I was able to sew 6 more rows. (Plenty of Pink and Orange in there) I do these 4 squares at a time. Meaning the units look like this:  

Yes, everything is included. I'm sure a kitchen sink can be found somewhere in there, lol. By sewing them up this way 2 rows are done at once. Although, there are 2 rows missing, I only have one to go. Yes! I'm at the last "rows". 😁

More photos. These quadrants aren't sewn together yet. 

Rows 7 and 8 to be done this weekend. (partially done this weekend). Yes, I know, Rows 3 and 4 are missing the sashing on the right side. I keep forgetting to add that to the last unit. 

I had a doctor's appointment on Friday. On my way there, the clouds sank! Like a sinkhole. It was the strangest thing I've ever seen clouds do. 

This one was taken from the side window which is tainted a little bit. Mother Nature is having mood swings! 

Anywho!! Back to the sewing room. I'm having mood swings too. The decluttering kind. 

Poor Elvis! Still waiting to be hang on the wall. Sigh! 

This is the mess to the right of my computer desk. It's a mess: agreed and fed up. Those bins hold the flannels and it's quite a task to reach into these because the space is quite narrow, so . . . 

I switched my cat Raven's bed for the bins. He sleeps on this bench while I'm in the sewing room. The bins are now in the middle of the sewing room and they will undergo a major cleaning/decluttering. Again 😁! The little white table with a drawer will be reassigned a position in a bedroom or the playroom. To be determined. 

I am not showing all the decluttering that's happening around here but with all the baby quilt done from my stash, you know that a lot of fabrics are being used and have left the room. 

Always when we clean our sewing rooms, we find little pieces that were meant to be sewn but weren't. Like these:

They became these: 

I did one more Bonus Point block. It's peachy in colour making it a nice transition from pink to orange wouldn't you say? 

Other things were found but were given away. I know I could have done something nice with these but they aren't my style. I prefer to keep my precious time for make things that appeal to me. Out they went. 

Surely you know that decluttering is contagious. While I'm doing my sewing room, my friends were inspired to do theirs. And their stuffs ended up at my place, lol. 

There must be close to 50 magazines. Some I've perused already, took pictures of pattern I want to keep and have disposed of the magazine already. These are the remaining ones. I have all the intentions to go through these this weekend and passed them along. Not keeping one of these. Not one! That's the plan, lol. 

Another thing that came my way because of a friend's decluttering . . . 

Sweet Lucie added 2 borders to this panel and then she put it away. That a long time ago, before we met. Upon rediscovering it in a drawer, she had no feelings for it anymore she said. Then she thought I might like it. Gosh! I don't understand why she thought I would ever like this!! Bwahahahaha! It's blue and purple, so it's hard to photograph. Oh yes! I am SO KEEPING this one!! I have such wonderful friends! 

Another thing I kept for a long time and now decided to recycle it instead. Or upcycle? Whatever! 

This is what I received within a bag of scraps. I set it aside. Well, no longer. I decided to use it. 

The previous owner zigzag stitched the applique, very tightly zigzag stitched it. True to me, I undid it. It was a long and tedious task. Upon removing the first part, the heart, I found way more stitches than I first thought was possible. 

All the branches are connected. Why? Sigh! But having that nice, big piece of white was a prize I wanted to win. So I kept unstitching. This white on white was/will be used many times in Friends' Favourite sashing bits. 😁

To all you mothers out there, I wish you a lovely and pampered Mother's Day. The best hood is motherhood. 🧡

Enjoy! ;^)

Check these ladies' link-party for more inspirations

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Craft Show and Bake Sale (photo heavy)

The bake sale and craft fair organised by the Artisanat association took place last Saturday.

This is one of the four tables of goodies. Yumm! Yes, I did buy some. 

Machine embroidery made with leftover minkie. 

Tables were overflowing with creativity and goodies, so some were on the floor.  

The next photos are from the craftshow. 

The photos above and below are needle felt wool portraits. 

At home, three more baby quilts got finished last week too. 

I didn't start playing with Orange yet. I bet you find that hard to believe but it's true. At the office, two ladies left to work elsewhere (this was planned) and one got fired right there on the spot. I'm just so tired, even Orange isn't spicing me up, lol. I'm resting today. We had the ceremony for my MIL ashes at the cemetery this morning. But tomorrow, I plan to sew something. Anything! Orange or not ! 

Hope you are well and can find some time to sew. 

;^)

Check these ladies' link-party for more inspirations

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Alycia for Finished or Not Friday

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!