Something Different EDITED

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So many things happened since I last post but not much in the sewing department.

The office had its Christmas Party at the Chateau Laurier. Yes, there are a few castles in Canada too. It was such a magical venue. Wow.

The woman dressed in black in the mirror is me. I could have go on and on as it was fabulous everywhere, but it wasn't a tour, it was a party. I will visit it one day and bring my good camera. All these were taken with my cell. 

Rascal decided to move "in". He was here almost all week. Early in the morning and at 6PM, we would let him in for some food, some love and to warm up too. 

I called different places like C.A.T. (Community Alley Trappers) to pick him up but their are at full capacity at the moment. :^(  I'm sad that they can't take him in and it is also sad that there are so many pets waiting for a good home.

Anywho! Rascal eats like an ogre and he's about to blow my budget, lol. Since him and Raven don't get along, we brought a big box outside, jammed it under the patio table so the wind wouldn't blow it away, brought out some blankets and spread a quilt on top in an effort to protect him from the wind. 
 

On Wednesday, he was gone. The snow melted a lot this week, so we figured the wild was calling him back. It's easier to catch rodents when the snow isn't deep. 

I worked a bit on the Four-Block quilt. As I was quilting, I wondered if the pencil marking will disappear in the wash. 

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(I completely omit to tell you about the something different. Haha. Too many pots on the back burner here.)

I want to finish this. An old Petit Point canvas received in a box with all the yarn in a bag. No numbers to identify which yarn goes with which canvas. It has been on the frame for a very long time. The masking tape on the right side is all dried up. 

I'm thinking of bringing it to the office for some fun stitching during my lunch break. It's hard to tell in the photo but the girls are done except for the faces. The snow is what I'll start working on first. 

I am also getting backings together for the baby tops. Isn't this one lovely ? I have enough of this one for three baby quilts. Yay. 

I was in the "process" of getting my sewing room organized, again! 

2024

Through the years, this place is only getting worst. It's a mess. 

2025

I'm so organized at work but my sewing room . . . 

It's an enigma to me. So, I started to remove everything from the floor. 

It took a while to get to the bottom. 

I thought these milk crates would be better since they store upward. Before I was even close of having half of the fabric organized, 

I decided to get the flannel out to make backings. (on the left, the two pinks and in the foreground the blue and green fabric are all flannel) Sigh! I know I'm ADHD and I knew I will do this and I tried to stop myself but this morning, I got up and all I could think of were the flannel that would go great with this top and this one and . . . and there's no cure. 😞

The far end of the room, is no better. The flannel bin has been opened, exploding fabric everywhere. . .

I bet you didn't know that the top of a cabinet door is a flat surface. Ha! 

Hopefully, I'll start 2026 with an organized sewing room. 😶

Back to the office.

We had the potluck lunch on Dec 18th. That's when we receive gifts from the bosses. There's so many things in the gift box like a prepaid credit card, lip balm, chocolates, Mason jar soup, hard candies, amongst other things, and a Christmas card. The one I got is so cute that I want to share it with you. 

Peace, love and hot chocolate . . . and a quilt! Oh my gosh! She gave me the card that has a quilt on it. She SOOOO gets me.  💝

With this, I wish you all a very 

rest of the year, filled with good time, pleasant company, sweet moments you will remember forever and health. And hot chocolate!

Cheers! ;^)

P.S. The comments left on my last post are not coming to my inbox. Sigh! The more it changes the more it's the same. Lol.

 

More fun happening at these talented ladies' blogs: 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

Kathy at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching 

Some Sewing Occurred. Really?

I'm trying to sew along with Bonnie K. Hunter. I sew a few units of each clue. The eventual top will be added to the baby quilts pile for donation. Needless to say, I won't need that many blocks but since no one knows what's the block and what is part of the sashing (if any), I'm just enjoying a little bit of sewing every week. 

Part 1 - I had to start over as I didn't cut the pieces right on my first attempt. 

4 sets of 4 in the hope that they will become 4 blocks, maybe? Do I need only 4 or 6 or 9 to get to a baby size quilt? 

If they are to become Ohio Stars, well I'm darn pleased I set the wood grain of this print all in the same direction. :^) Time will tell. 

These are some of Part 2 and some from Part 3. As I've said previously, not enough Pink and Purple live in this house to make a bazillion-pieces-Bonnie-mystery-quilt. Orange and brown are the colours I picked this time around. 

I've also worked on these. 

Yes, it's County Clare again. (a Bonnie K. Hunter leader-ender quilt) I thought I was done but the top is too much on the small size to be approved as a baby quilt, so I added another row at the bottom and a column on the left. 

Since we have such lovely, soft, airy, snow falling (AAAAgain!) I thought a picture with the fluffy white stuff as background would be nice. The top measures 33.5 X 39.5 and I call it "good enough". Let's find a backing for this one and send it off. 

Tomorrow morning, I'm taking DS#2 to the specialist to have wisdom tooth remove. Oh that's sounds like a lovely morning. 🙄

Well, that rounds up what's been happening here, except for Raven seeing the vet. He got two thumbs up. He's back to his old self. Yay! 

He likes to sleep on the red chair when I'm at the computer 

I'm not sleeping, Mom. I'm watching you because
you're my favourite hooman. 😻

Have a great weekend, everyone!

;^)

More fun happening at these talented ladies' blogs: 

Angela at So Scrappy

Frédérique at Patchwork and Quilts

Cynthia for Oh Scrap!

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!