It's so bright!

It's raining today. It's gloomy, windy, dark and cold. Sure feels like Autumn but inside my home, it is so bright!

Cynthia from Quilting is More Fun than Housework hosts a Quilty Orphan Adoption event each year. The Joyful Quilter participated this year with the offering of some of her scraps. Ohhh I so wanted those scraps. Well, I ended up with a consolation prize. Isn't that wonderful? 8^D
Yesterday, Joyful's box of scraps finally made it to my place. Squeeeaaalll!!

It was packed to the top.  

I spent part of the evening sorting through this heavenly parcel. It is soooo much more fun playing in someone else's scraps. I had a ball and a half! Won't show you everything in there but here's a few pictures. 

A bunch of shimmering fabric. Luscious. I know where to use these. :^D

Rich fall colours fabrics. Love the prints on these so much! 

Even Batiks were thrown into the box. Gotta love that, right? Awesome purple, rich rusty colours and green and yellow. Yum! 

Some browns which will find their places in the 365 Challenge. Love the two sunflowers fabric at the bottom. Well ... I love them all!

What about those pansies in blue? Gorgeous! They might end up with the browns in the 365 Challenge. 

And green too. A big pile of greens. I believe Joyful knows I don't carry a lot of green .... because I'm always broke, lol.

Also got some white on white, black, beige/neutrals, pinks, reds and a touch of yellow. No. No orange in sight. She knows that I have a truck load of orange lol. 

Some are tiny little pieces which will be used to make blocks like these:

They are fun to make. No brains were abused here. Just sew little pieces together until it reaches a certain size. In this case, I need 2.5 X 4.5 inches. Trim and attach to a white (or any colour you wish) piece of the same size. (My whites need trimming in this picture.)
On Saturday, I'll be at Angela's place and I'll show her, and you, what interesting blocks they make. Stay tuned.

At the bottom of the box, there were bigger pieces, like fat quarters and one even bigger than that!! The checker fabrics are from Mary Engelbreit. Funny how things just happen sometimes, right? I had in my stash, from a long time ago, this panel of ....

Placemats and coasters from Mary's Design! Well, am I tickled pink or what? Wow! Now I have the perfect fabrics for the backing. It is so Breit! Oh I know I don't have enough to finish all the placemats and coasters but I'll make do. :^D

I am VERY happy with all the fabrics; they are all so beautiful. I have a gazillion of projects in my head and I made such pleasant dreams last night, (U_U) zzzzzz Thank you soooooo much Joyful. You are a most generous person. Whenever you feel like sharing, look me up. :^D

Until next time ... 

;^) 

Whatever Wednesday: October's Colours

Really? October?
I was driving around today and I was astonished by the lack of colours. Someone should tell Mother Nature which month it is because it sure doesn't look like October.

Around here, trees are starting to change early September. I got married at the end of September, when the trees had completely hauled their Fall coats on. It was so beautiful. This year, most trees are still green.

 Like those on the right side of this picture. What's with that? Let's zoom in on this picture for a moment.

The Ottawa River (la rivière des Outaouais) is running through this picture and beyond is Quebec. Some trees are red but many are still green.  Most amazing of all is that ALL the trees have leaves. Strange.

This is a WIP tree, lol! It is working very slowly on progressing towards Fall but it's shy about changing in front of everyone, lol.

Some have never recovered from the Ice Storm of 1998. (eighteen years ago.) The branches of this tree are growing on top of the trunk as it is forever bent.

This is a typical end-of-September-early-October picture in my region. I think it is so beautiful.

My favourite dirt road. Someone ran out of orange and red ink.

Okay so this is where I live. What? What do you mean you can't see the village? Come closer.

I apologise to the people who live in the south and don't have winters as I wanted to show pictures of Fall, but it looks like it hasn't reached my town yet, lol. 

Main drag, somewhere, Canada. (again green trees. I did took these pictures this afternoon. Honest!) What a beautiful day this is.

Love the paint job on this tree. Like raspberry and lime swirls. Hmmm.... great colours for a quilt. Hehehe!

Here we are; home! My own backyard isn't as orange as it should be. The rudbeckia flowers around the clothesline post are all gone because they know September has passed. The forest is still undecided. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind that it still look like Summer. I only hope that Fall won't embellished the landscape and be all gone within 48 hours, you know I mean. I would like to enjoy Fall as much as I have enjoyed Summer. I am sad when people say they don't believe in global warming; I see its fingerprints. (O_O)



Until next time ....


;^)

P.S. this post is solely meant as a record keeping of this unusual Fall we are having.

Tuesday Archives

Sharon, from Vroomans Quilts, participate in the Tuesday Archives, organised by Val from Val's Quilting Studio.  It sounds like fun so I decided to participate. Since the link is open for three days, I am not too late for this week linky party.

Since Angela chose Orange and Yellow for the month of October, I want to present to you L'Orange Noir. (the Black Orange) This quilt was done in 2007. It is pre-blogging history.

Pictured in a magazine, a very old make-do quilt with lots of pink and everything else under the sun. It had a stripy design with HSTs on both sides. I loved to hate it because the pink was all wrong. Most of the time the pink HSTs were on the right side (with the pink strips) and sometimes they were facing the other fabric and it was annoying this OCD little girl to no end.

I decided to make myself one ... with the HSTs facing the right side.  As you can see with the wiggly rainbow waves, I didn't do much better. Didn't even bother to turn the fabric so ALL the lines were horizontal lol.

Hey look! It's the M&M gang with their cars! 

The black fabrics were hand quilted on diagonal towards the right with the M&M to the left.

The Orange section have big circles. Hope you can see them.

Compared to the new basket I have made with the same fabric, you can see the quilt has faded a little bit but it is holding pretty good. It is not big (44 X 33 ") so it was easy for the boys to carry it around. One would sit on it and the other one would pull. All was fun until the water work started because "the wall hit my head" kind of accident. 

The back is another oldie in flannel. We used to call them Smiley Face babies; now they are called the Emoji babies. 

Hope you have enjoyed my first try at Tuesday Archives. If you want to see more, hop over to Val's Quilting Studio and see who else is reminiscing either with an old post or a pre-blog quilt. Val has a giveaway this week. 

Until next time ... 

;^)

P.S. Please do not expect two posts in one day again because it has tired me out but had to try it at least once in my life.  (^:

Whatever Wednesday

Want to play a game with me? 

Mini

Myni

Moe! Mau?

Mau ... ve! 

Where should I land?

;^)

Sunrise October

Ironically, this morning it is overcast with chances of rain, but at Soscrappy, it is Sunrise October and I'll got with that! :^D

I did some sewing last night and moved a thing or two along. 

Since Orange is part of the monthly colour, let me start by showing you my baby quilt. From this ... 

To this morning. 

I only have a meter of the grey so I have to be careful and plan it well. Maybe some yellow under the orange? Or lime? I'll play with these ideas as I do the laundry today. 

As most of you know, my RSC2016 Peace and Plenty is assembled and waiting for a border or two. So, what's a girl to do during the last three months of the year? Start another one, of course! 

There's so many blocks I want to do ... this one was made as a leader / ender.

Look, it has red and gold, as last month colour. But that is soooo passé, right? lol. 

Also did this one. 

AAAAAHHHHH! What? 
Gayle? I believe one has excaped. Lol! 
Oh look. I think it wants to help me with the laundry. I am sooooo keeping this one. 
(Seriously now. Gayle from Mangofeet has these cute Monkey blocks and I really like them and ... well, you can see by yourself right here. )
Can't remember how big hers are, but mine stands at 10.5 inches unfinished. 

Okay back to the picture.

Block # 2. 

Hopefully some orange ones will join these two blocks at some point during today. I still have many things to do for the Craft Sale. 

I also played a little bit with a cute messenger bag I got from Suebee's World. 

Before I start cutting this one, I took the measurements of all the pieces, so I can make more. :^D 

And then, there is this book which is, somehow, always under hand. It is a Judy Martin book!

Angie from A Quilting Reader's Garden made me an offer I just couldn't resist and this lovely book now resides with me. I want to make all the fantastic quilts from this book. Oh My!!!  Thank you, Angie!

Anywho! Today, you can find me at Angela's place, Soscrappy,  looking at all the lovely rainbows everyone's working on. Hope you will join us. 

On Sunday, I will be with Cynthia for Oh Scraps! at Quilting is More Fun than Housework. See you there. 


Until next time ... 

;^)