Seasons change.

On one of my recent walks I saw this beautful tree. The leaves are all falling down at great speed and whispers of snow flakes flying is becoming more and more noticeable.

I have been missing from blogging world for a bit, catching up on getting the house and garden all ready for winter. It was a very busy summer with me learning to longarm quilt. Took the car for a wash, winter tyres are on the car. We are migrating indoors for the winter.

Bought some fabric to make a warm coat, my sewing machine did not like the fibers in the woven fabric. I decided to pull out some perle cotton and sew it with that, the outer shell. The outer shell is done, the lining is luckily not an issue and it could be sewn by machine in a few hours.

A bit more work to do on the coat, not rushing the process.

Worked on a zipper pouch, to hold very specific tools for my machine all together in one place. For years now I wanted to create a pouch for said tools, now they will be together.

Made a start on Amsterdam on the canal, house number one.

Sunset on our walk.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A Happy Thanksgiving to each and everyone of you who celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving this week. We are thankful and grateful for all the very many blessings and people in our lives, far and near and dear to our hearts!

Canada.

At our local farmers market, lots of inspiration even with wood carved pieces!

Placemats with the new Northcott fabric.

Playing with the fabric to create a Maple leaf border.

Have been busy with the binding for my nephews wedding quilt. It was finished this afternoon and washed. It is now drying and tomorrow I will take some photos in natural light.

Omygosh.

Over the course of three years, each month I worked on the blocks in the called for colour. Scraps was cut, sewn, ironed and the blocks assembled. The stack of little blocks grew, until I had enough blocks to sew the top together. This happened and border fabrics was added. The top with the binding went into the rubbermaid for to be quilted pile and sat in there for almost two years. Over the summer I learnt how to longarm quilt and I got to quilt this one myself. The binding is on and the quilt got washed and is now dry. The irony of it was suppose to use all the scraps, reduce the scraps of fabrics so that the scrap pile would be gone, did not work. After sorting out the sewing room, instead I now have a rubbermaid filled with scraps from all the leftover fabric from completed projects over the years. The plan this fall? to sort these into shape groups and start sewing those together each month with RSC26.

The front and back of the quilt.

RSC has taken stalled projects, to finished projects. Thank you, Angela for hosting SoScrappy!

Summer.

This post is about this summer past, learning another part element of how to quilt. It has been fun, a lot of hard work and journey in how to work smarter not harder. Having the opportunity to learn to do this and the tools to do this, has freed hours of time for me. It allowed me to quilt a whole rubbermaid filled with quilt tops, panels that has been waiting for a while. I am so thankful it is now empty, in the process it all came in very handy. As one of our neighbours lost their home in our neighbourhood to a house fire, they escaped the house just in time and are alive. Things can be replaced, people not.

Two of these quilts was gifted to the children, both boys. The same fabrics was used in these two tops, just in different places.

A quilt for the parents is almost finished and will be going to them very soon.

I got to practice on various quilts and my own stuff, it included quilts for Survivors, babies, wedding and just quilts for at home or at the cottage.

The backs on all the quilts range from regular cotton, flannel, minky and fireside.

Baby quilts for two twin boys.

Playmat quilts.

A wedding quilt and the dragon fly quilt.

Red, The spledour sampler, Red work blocks gifted to me by a friend from retreat. Her stitching is absolutely beautiful! (French General fabrics in reds).

Some more quilts, this is just a part of the quilts I had a chance to work on and quilt. I continue to practice and learn. My apprentice internship is almost complete, as summer draws to a close. I am thankful to give my hands more time to enjoy some quiet stitching and applique time as I grow older. Hand quilting is one of my pleasures, as we age we have the choice to be kind to ourselves as well, to find the right balance for us in life.

Stitching.

A few kits which has been on my list, one for a while now. This one was pointed out to me on many times over the course of the past year. I finally got the kit, made a start on it.

It is very well put together and thought out kit. One can start right away when you open the box. It is easy to pop everything back into the box, until you want to stitch again.

Another one, much smaller.

It is a Christmas decoration in the form of a bell.

Started this one too! Both kits are from The Sewing Cafe, Georgetown Ontario.