My Creative Works

Jan 3rd

 Well I again forgot to take the PFA swap "Embellishments" photos yesterday alongside another mini quilt I started from Janet's donated 1.5" squares (hand pieced). I was so excited to begin the hand quilting that I forgot to take a "top only" photo!!! Duh me!!!

Thank you for my cut Adele, I love this style. 

Then a quick look through Peavy Mart and talk about some nifty stuff in there, didn't buy anything.

What a lovely evening with Sylvia, Edna and Pat touring Winter Wonderland. Since I was driving Pat took as many pictures she could, and I commend her with doing so even though the car was moving and not much chance to stop, too chilly! Here are ones I really liked! Thank you Pat and also Tom for gifting me the vehicle ticket!!!

Jan 5th

Ohhhh boy I had done it again!!! While at Monika and Jeff's to visit with Joan, Harold and Katsu, I TOTALLY forgot to get a picture of me with them and one of Katsu too! SHEESH!!! Sorry guys!!! And Monika, when over visiting either place, would you please get a picture with them and Katsu in their arms??? ❤️

Sept 16th

Hey, I forgot to post the ACQ Sept 7th sewing day results. Lately I've been playing with my 9" square I Spy blocks for MPQ ABC quilts. That day I sewed up 17 blocks. Today while at Edna's I sewed up another 12 blocks and forgot all about the leftover 9 sets pinned ready to sew from ACQ sewing day! AND wonder how many more blocks from the tray I've yet to sort out???

Edna finished off her last year's, I think it's called twisted ribbons, just in time to maybe quilt it at the retreat this year. It was a pattern that Adina had sewn up and passed onto Edna.

Walking to my car I noticed the Sturgeon Creek Portage Ave lights are out so guess that affected her Shaw TV and power flickered off a couple times while eating supper. Also look at the sky!!! 

Sept 17th

Here is Lori's write up on my 52 Scrappy Triangles quilt she custom quilted. It's naturey, simple and more me than the feathers I first thought of, so I'm pleased with her quilting. Thank you! This was also part of the $100 virtual retreat prize I won last year from MPQ to go towards any quilt shop or service!  

I just ❤️❤️❤️❤️ it and now to finalize my label and bind it! MY QUILT!!!!!

Rose Anne brought this lovely quilt in for some custom quilting. A few members of my local quilt guild got inspired to do some paper piecing and followed The Year of Scrappy Triangles blog post by Leila Gardunia. I saw some photos of this quilt as Rose Anne was working on it and had thought her chosen background was black, but it is actually a beautiful deep green! It is a lovely compliment to all the batiks she found in her stash.

Initially I thought feathers would be the perfect suggestion for the green strips, but I just could not get them flowing nicely to the inner green border. Everything I tried looked really awkward at some point. When I suggested the echo curve design for the outer border and the center strips, Rose Anne loved the idea and the rest of the design fell into place quickly after that.

The gold border received large curls, the inner green border an oak leaf and curl, and the paper pieced triangles received some branching curls. I always try to repeat motifs somewhere in the custom quilting so that the quilt feels cohesive at the end.

I used an olive green thread for everything but the oakleaf border. There I switched to more of a rusty gold thread to make it stand out a little bit more and add a bit of interest.

OMGG!!!!! Hope all are safe around there! 🙏

Today I started off lazily then kicked into motivation gear and successfully tatted and embroidered the rest of the evening! So I've some tatted butterflies and completed my PFA swap postcard top, now to work on the back and sandwich it together. 

Hopefully my newly serviced Janome will cooperate with the satin stitched edging! Jo do you recognize my source of inspiration for a couple of my seams? Yes I use it for some help! ❤️

Oct 8th

 I had to sneak this from MPQ!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!  🎃🎃🎃

I honestly thought all those lovely leaves would have been shaken off in the winds and rain the past few days!

Well it's been a rough day so I passed on Thanksgiving dinner at Pat n Randy's as my hip/leg is sharp pains on movements. Not steady but sometimes I'm unstable. So between resting I sewed up another two scrappy strips/mini charms placemats. No energy to do more!  I changed one placemat!

Oct 9th

Today off and on between relaxing my hip, I stitched up the four placemats from Saturday. But instead of trimming these pieces down for 3 sets per placemat, but trimmed the 2 sets for each one. So not sure how many more to come, the colourful ones for sure from yesterday, but a few more I think.

Oct 10th

Okay whatever popped in my hip on Saturday is giving me major grief that I need a walking stick to stay upright. My Chiro got me in and said lower back/hip was badly out in the opposite direction than usual and advised heat off and on. Hope it works!!! 

At least Pat 🥰 made me smile when she dropped off turkey dinner treats at lunch that i missed out on on Sunday! Suppers ready!!!

Oct 11th

I still love this hat!!! Definitely will make one!!!!

Oct 12th

Well I can say honestly that I'm walking mucho better, not relying on my walking stick as much. Just not carrying anything heavy or far, used my wagon to do laundry, worked fine. The sharp spasming pains are gone and today a dull ache. Hope it stays that way OR even better, totally goes away!!! That was a rough five days!!!

Oh my, a walk down memory lane!!! Sylvia passed on a few more pictures!!! Now I don't really remember the 'younger days' but do the middle years!!! I loved that drop waisted dress, wore it lots until it shrunk!!! 😄 See I said I painted with Sylvia's guidance, but dang it she made me wipe out those dark spots on the seals till we both were happy! And we used to go out on nature photo shoots etc together!