Week End Play

Thank you all so much for your comments. I appreciated each and every one of you. I feel lucky to have such supportive friends. Thank you.

For those who want to know:
My son will be followed by a new therapist and had a change in meds. Hope this works out.
My DH has decided, on his own and without any threats from me, to let the chalet go. The so-called "great deal" on the chalet was the "friendly" price. Hubby thought it was the asking price and he could get a much better, reduced price, but no. The "friendly" price was way off what DH would pay for such a small chalet. So, yay me!
At work ... well, it's still a WIP.


For those who want to know about quilty stuff:
Last week end was a long week end here in Canada (too) and I was able to play with my sewing machine.

It took me the better part of that week end to finish the second corner of 365 Challenge.

Remember this?

Gosh! That was so long ago. Last February, I started on this corner block and got this much achieved.
After studying the pattern for a long time, as I have lost where I was and what was next, I started working on it again.

Some of the flowers are now showing on two sides.

One more flower and the beginning of the basket.

Almost done.


and Ta-dah!

This block measures 12 inches finished and has 119 pieces. Only two more corners to do.

My leader-ender while sewing the corner was this tiny little one.

Called the Union, this block has 41 pieces inside a 3.5 unfinished frame. It is October 11th and it means that there's only 81 more blocks to go. Whoop Whoop!

Lynn from Klein Meisje Quilts shared a tip that I have adopted.
When cutting dark fabric, I started to flip them, like Lynn suggested, and cut them from the wrong side. The fabric is usually lighter on the wrong side. I do this especially when the pieces are small.

It makes the task so much easier. Neat trick! Thank you Lynn. 

Now, for this weekend. Well, this past Tuesday was our first Artisanat meeting and my friend gave me a nice little bag of scraps.

Oooohhh! Lucky me. So much fun!


My bag of purple/pink scrap is getting pretty full.
Guess I'll have to do something about it and get into the color of the month.

And I got from the library a few audio books. Hopefully, there's one I will like while I'm sewing to my heart's content.


Hope you all get to sew a bit too

;^)

Joining Angela at SoScrappy
Cynthia for Oh Scrap!
Sarah at Confession of a Fabric Addict
Alycia for Finished or Not Finished Friday 
Denise for Put Your Foot Down 

Monday Making - 36 done

My leader / ender project.  

36 blocks done, 6 more to go.

Sashing? Wondering, pondering, testing... 

Until next time ....


;^)

Joining Beth for Monday Making

Joining Judy for Patchwork Time

Friday Finish

Just a quick post to show you my finishes.  (Yes, I know it is Saturday morning but I was too tired last night. :(   Sorry.)

"Specks of colours" (an old leader/ender project) is finished in red bindings. All machine quilted. I had fun doing this one. It still has a few threads that need to be tucked in. It finishes at 68 X 51.

front

back

Fall table runner is also finished. Also machine quilted in the ditch, I used the same brown fabric from the blocks to bind it. I love the back and would like to use it on that side too so I am hesitant to add a label.  Maybe later. (yeah, we all know what THAT means right? ) Since I always do my bindings by hand, I did a lot of hand sewing during the evenings this past week.

Ok enough of Friday! Onto Saturday now ... :) I would like to finish one or two more projects before I start something new but I am really itching for some new stitching. AAaaaarrrrrggghhhh!  All the beautiful fabric I've bought while visiting my friend haven't been cut up yet, believe it or not!!

Hope you enjoy some fabric fondling today.

Enjoy!

EDITED : I am linking to Nicky's Scraptastic Tuesday

Friday Flimsy

It is Friday. Yeah!

And I have a flimsy. Double Yeah!

This is ...  was an on-again, off-again leader/ender project that I was able to finish this afternoon.

It turned out better than I expected. This evening I might piece a backing and maybe even sandwich it.

I will change the foot on the sewing machine and will stitch in the ditch again this weekend.

But first, I have to go to Nancy Ring Design and check out the new Marcus Sew along block. That's a triple Yeah!

Until next time ... sssSMiLE ... for all to enjoy.

Blame the French Accent

I had nice comments on my last post. (I am not implying that usually I have bad comments, I just mean ... oh brother!!) Misunderstanding is what I mean.  Uh! Um! Let's start again.

I had comments on my last post and, as I was reading them, it dawn on me that I had mislead my readers. I apologize for that.  :- (

In my post, I said that I will add a white sashing and my sweet commentators were agreeing that it look good with the white sashing but, to me, the sashing was not on yet. So what were the nice people talking about? Then, the light came on in my head. Oh brother! I've mislead my readers with my blocks. True, the blocks do have a white sashing but, for me, that one is part of the block and not a "true" sashing. (Am I making sense?)

Blame it on my French accent please. I should have wrote; I will add a second white sashing because this is what I meant.

and add some corner blocks too ... or should I say corner stones? Funny how differently we can interpret one's writing. I've read my post again and again and now that I see it, I don't understand how come I couldn't see it before. I'll try to be more explicit from now on. I can be such a blabbermouth that I try to keep my posting short (not to bore you to tears).  But I left out an important little word; second. Thanks for all the nice comments, hope there is no hard feelings for my lack of ability at translating my ideas. Sorry to whom my reply was confusing. I had another vision of my quilt in my head then you did and I guess my reply didn't always made a lot of sense. (No, I was not drunk).  
BTW, yes, the blocks are crooked. I didn't pay much attention when sewing these little bits together and now, I am regretting it.

Hope you find some time to put some fabric to a needle.  Ha! ha! ha! (It does make sense in French!)

Until next time ... SMiLE ... it's international language.

Monday's Options

I finally have a few minutes to sit at my sewing machine. Yeah!!

Yesterday, I've pulled out the finished blocks of my on again/off again leader /ender project. I've been sewing little 1.5 squares together for so long I think I've started this in 2012 but not sure. And now I am tired of this project so... I will finish it.

I have 8 blocks done. I will do 4 more and add white sashing to calm it down a notch. The inner square has 100 pieces of almost every cotton I have. Not paying much attention to how I am sewing this so it is very colourful and ♫ ssscrappy ♪ . It will go to charity when done.

So this will be my work for this week (and the next). What about you? Hope you find some time to put some stitches on a fabric.

Linking up with Patchwork Times, for even more fun check out what some quilters are stitching together. 

Until next time ... SMiLE ... show your colours.