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.
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.
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
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 did a lot of hand-quilting on Ohio Star Shadow.
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| 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.
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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 there 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:
Angela at So Scrappy
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