Finished baby quilt.

The pink baby quilt was finished and has arrived at its new home.

Always feels good when it is finished and it can be loved.

Machine washable and quilted. Making it easier for the new parents.   Babies need durable clothing and bedding. 100 percent cotton works for us. Natural fibres is always a good choice. Back to the Christmas quilt for our eldest son and his wife...

Baby pink elephant quilt.

Yesterday was spent machine quilting this baby quilt with whisper pink thread.

Binding was added and it is ready for some slow relaxing sewing onto the back.

The back is a print filled with colours.

Baby quilt.

The pink baby quilt top is done.  Next step will be to baste it and get it quilted.

It has six blocks of nine patch  variations, as above and another six blocks with stars below.

The baby room is all baby African animals. The closest I could find was a baby elephant.

One star block has pink polka dots on it, used just a few fabrics.  Mostly what was in my fabric collection/stash.

The backing for the quilt is fabric with little dresses in many colours. 

Cats and the moon.

Our cat woke me up at 4h38am. She wanted me to see the lunar eclipse,  it was spectacular.  The moon was an orange red colour. I went outside to see it better and tried to get a photograph,  but it was difficult to get the same  image on the photo.

Yesterday saw me basting the kingzise Christmas quilt for our eldest son and his wife.  That is done, the Quilt will be quilted by hand, so it will be what will be worked on from today.

The pink baby quilt has two different blocks, this is the star blocks.

There are 48 triangle square in the pile. Thinking of sewing them into a six by eight row block for a pillow case to send the quilt in?
The points from the star snowball corners was not discarded. 

The second block for the baby quilt. There are six blocks of the stars and six of these. These will be sewn today, assembled and the baby quilt needs to arrive in time for her arrival.

A baby quilt.

All the pieces is cut out for the baby quilt,  prepped and ready for sewing together. The binding will be the pink and white polka dot fabric. 

Baked a chocolate cake yesterday, with the cold weather a sweet tooth is here.

This baby hat started unravelling,  as I had dropped stitches and did not realized it. So it has been started again. Finished the king size quilt top yesterday, will make the binding and prep the batting. Have to join two piece together,  before basting it.

It has been hectic.

This last while has been hectic, we put the outside lights up. Discovered decorating big trees to be easier than the house? After spending hours checking the lights on the driveway,  making sure everything was in good working condition.  Can one strand give up the ghost after the fact? It did, so the replacement is in the garage waiting for next year.  Yesterday it started snowing with rain, this morning not much snow remain.

Saturday was spent sewing the Christmas quilt and the center is now finished. The borders and binding fabrics has been washed and ironed.  The aim is to get those cut and sewn this week.

Also working on the pink baby quilt above and the hat.

Two more charm rows done.

The next two charm rows ready for sewing.

A little bit more..

Made a start on the baby girl hat.

Three more pink fat quarters for the baby quilt.

Some more charms added to the row.

At the beginning of the year, this was a box with just stacks of charms, now those stack has grown over time into strips of charms. Slowly but surely they are becoming a quilt top.

A pink theme..

Anothe baby quilt, nine patch blocks. 

Pink yarn, thought it was the same colour. Baby hats with this.

These two are for another little girl in the family.

Worked some more on the Christmas quilt. 

A few more charms got sewn together.  The garden and the preparation for the next season is done. It has been a very hectic couple of weeks.

Pumpkin pie.

First ever pumpkin pie. We  grew one butternut squash over the summer.  Finally cooked it as part of the roast chicken dinner. The rest of the pumpkin was used for the filling of this pie. It was a pleasant surprise, light and airy. 

The garden is finally done after seven years, it feels great knowing in spring we can plant seeds and enjoy watching everything blossom and grow.

The green house is working so far, the plants are alive.

The veggie garden has been top up with manure, peat and extra soil. Every raised bed was dug over and can now rest for the winter.

Our maple tree is doing well, the leaves is still on it. The last few days things on the list got done, including winter tyres. Tomorrow sewing room will be where time will be spent.

Baked Apple pie with a crumble topping.

Before the snow arrives...

The yellow rose bush burst into flower, so it was a wonderful surprise.

Five hour baby sweater got finished.

Some work done in the sewing room, fabric strips sewn together.

Most of the past week was spent in garden, raised veggie garden beds for next year all topped

Up and ready for spring planting.

Extra soil was put in all the flower beds. Only have to plant the bulbs for spring still. Back to quilting and indoors until Spring next year. It took seven years to get the garden to this point, it feels good. Now it is perfect, easy to maintain in the future.

A maple tree covered in red.