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! |
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| 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
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| 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.
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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.
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| 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:
