Orange in May.

Orange is colour for RSC2026, a few of the projects on the list have orange in it. Those will be worked on everyday to make a few more blocks. It has been very busy since last year around this time, so we are catching up on a long list of things to do. We are doing spring cleaning, both inside and outside.

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 Stitching has started again.

Spring flowers.

Today was a sunny one, with blue skies. Winter is slowly retreating and spring is beginning to arrive gracefully. Finished the baby quilt for my brother and his wife' s first grandbaby. It is on its way to them now. On our walks recentl, wild flowers blooming. 

Mystery quilt.

 The William Morris mystery quilt kits are all done. Everything is precut and in kits, with 13 Blocks plus the borders and binding for the quilt. This quilt was designed by myself and my husband last year, after receiving a request for it. The fabric collection arrived in March of this year and the cutting of the fabric, counting, sorting and kitting up of 11 queen size quilt kits happened since then. They are almost ready to be sent out to everyone who signed up for the mystery quilt project. This has been an epic project, videos will be added and instructions as well. Kits available from the Sewing Cafe.ca

Binding and hexies.

Life has been busy with so much. Changes that are happening as we grow older, family growing as more great nephews and nieces are born. This year is no exception, a request for a baby a quilt came and that one is being worked on slowly. Also worked on some hexies, using mini charm packs which I got when we went out west a number of years ago.

Spring or winter.

The weather is still doing what it is doing. Freezing rain and now rain which hopefully is melting some more snow and ice. We are more than ready for Spring to arrive with warmer weather. Last year I received this Peter Rabbit panel and a fat quarter bundle. Looked at the both for a few months and finally decided to quilt the panel. Baby quilts always makes me think of spring, lambs and green grass.

Slow progress.

Life goes forward one step at a time. Progress it is, even in small steps. We had almost no more snow on our grass, when we thought spring was here? What a crazy day, so much snow that it required a snowblower to clear the snow. It continued to snow and turned to rain.

A smock dress that I was working on. Luckily this one only needs finishing later this year.

Some more stiching happen as well.

We all have to take a break sometimes…

Life has a way of slowing us down and making us stop sometimes. My shoulder and snow shovelling did just that. The choice was to listen to my body or not? It made sense to just go with the flow and listen. Rest, rest and more rest. We spent time relaxing and also visiting Bounce, above. Projects on the list is ones that are not urgent and had been started a while back, they will wait until the shoulder is healed and back to normal working order. Spring is arriving, we have snow melting and the trees are showing signs of buds appearing along the branches. In some places we can see large patches of grass with no snow on it. We are curretly enjoying double digits above freezing. This past winter definitely took its toll and we are happy to say hello to spring.