Time to Sew!

It is a beautiful November morning! The sun is making the lawn look like crystals with the overnight frost. To-day I plan to do some sewing and get caught up with all the projects on my list for Christmas and also finish a UFO. A UFO in quilt world is an "Unfinished Object" and there seems to be a few waiting around in nicely stacked plastic storage boxes. I must say I do have a couple of empty boxes and so there are at least two less UFOs.
To the left is a picture of a quilt I made for our Daughter and Son-in-law this summer. Before their wedding in August I made blocks and took them to showers for the bride. Her friends and relatives then signed the blocks with good wishes.
The Court House Steps quilt (top left) was a project we did at our Retreat this fall at camp Iawah. It will be so much fun to see the different colours of the quilts that all the other participants at the Retreat made.
The other quilt above was a block of the Month we did in our local group. Some of the blocks were quite challenging, and that was fun.

Where do the seasons go?

Here it is almost the end of October and it is beginning to feel as if the warmth of the sun has been turned to low. It has been a very busy summer and also into early fall.
My gardens were beautiful all summer with the welcome showers every week. It seems selfish to have been happy with that for so many others wanted hot, dry sunny days for all their activities.
To see every lawn and field totally green all season was such a pleasure. I will remember it well.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. R. Tagore

Quilting Again!

Well the gardens are looking quite pretty these days with many perennials in bloom. It does take a lot of my time to dead head and cut down those finished for the season. But my title is QUILTING and I must stick to the subject! I have had time to spend a day or so in my sewing room and finished two small projects. What a wonderful feeling to have accomplished that feat. I have some time for a week or two before the wedding on August 8th. Our daughter is coming home from England and is to be married here and then staying in Canada with her British husband. So I am really enjoying a short time to do a few sewing projects until it gets really busy with guests and all the wedding preparations.
I am posting the pictures of the small project. One is a butterfly done in a different freezer paper method. It was a sample picture to try the method. I have a larger wall hanging to do by the same method. It is by Cynthia England of http://www.englanddesign.com/ and it certainly was different and a challenge which I love. So i must get on with my sewing and enjoy the evening.

June 2008

This month is going by so quickly. With the showers we have had every other day or so we have had great growing weather.I think the perennials are blooming ahead of time and have gorgeous large blooms. Even the evergreen should be having a great growing year. The last few years they have produced an abundance of cones, fearing they weren't going to survive and had to reproduce.
Even the temperature has not been that hot and so I have enjoyed puttering in the garden through the day. With all the outdoor activities I have been neglecting my quilting hobby. It seems there is never enough hours in the day.

New project finished

It has been a long indoor season. I did benefit by having more time to pursue my hobby of quilting. I have finished a couple of projects with more in the UFO department. (UFO's are Unfinished Objects in quilt lanquage) It is such a great feeling to put the binding on a quilt or wallhanging and declare "it is finished" This is a Thomas Kincade panel and patchwork around it. The windows and lighting have been embellished with beading. What fun I had doing this!

Soon it will be gone!!

Is Spring coming??

Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies.
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!

–Charles G. D. Roberts (1860–1943)

Quilting To-day

Quilting again