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.

Groundhog says an early spring!

I have been smocking and it made me look in a box that has not been looked at for a while. Found these two patterns and decided to pull them out. Also sorted through some scraps and my stash of fabrics. A collection of colours has been started for making these two quilts. The patterns use black fabrics?

The Sewing Cafe have a beautiful collection of black prints, they have a large collection of white prints with colours too. Which is what I am leaning towards more than the black.

Picked up the Fox and Rabbit mystery stitch along project which stalled around August of last year.

Also pulled out the yellow and blue blocks, have cut a lot of blocks with the rest of the fabrics to make more blocks to create a quilt.

A request for a kitty quilt.

A nephew and his wife adopted a kitten recently, a request came for a welcome to the family quilt.

This kitty is white and fluffy, so something with pink and some colours to make sure she will be seen on said quilt.

Lupine and Laughter Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt is finished, with binding on. This quilt will be gifted in due course, scraps no more! Perfect distraction from the very cold weather and all the snow. We have had a lot of snow.