A collection of quilts for the year.

Wedding quilts this year.

A Wedding bargello wall hanging.

A quilt for my eldest sister.

Wedding quilt for a very special cousin.

Mystery quilt finished after working on it for many years.

A quilt that is still being quilted and one that is still to be quilted.

This quilt is basted, it needs to be quilted.

Merry Christmas!

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful time, filled with joyful laughter and happiness. Spending time with loved ones and friends, creating new memories. It is what we have in our hearts and what we send out into the world that is our most important message we have to give, we choose to give love and peace.

A few from a friend.

Diane decided to grow her Bargello wallhanging quilt into a large quilt, we worked out how much fabric she needed and this is the end result. It was longarm quilted by Sharron Leonard.

She has started another stitching project too.

A display at our local library.

A finish before Christmas.

The blue smock dress is finished and is on its way to a little girl for Christmas. Her Grandma and her both loves blue, their favourite colour.

The back and front of the dress. Recently this little girl became a big sister to a little sister.

The Soedidee advent stitch-a-long continue, have kept up for the most part. Missed stitching on three days.

The weather was beautiful on friday and we went for a walk in nature, the beavers are busy.

They have chopped all the trees, except for this one. We have noticed the water level where the weir is, has not dropped in a couple of months. They have built another dam down stream from the weir.

Where did the year go?

Hard to believe it is already December. The year has flown by, it has been and continue to be busy.

The smocking was completed and then the embroidery as well.

It is now done, ready to block and then to assemble the dress.

Smocking is not just for girls, boys too.

The pattern in the magazine was done in pink, this one if for a little girl who adore and love blue!

What else have been worked on? In the summer Soedidee announced a Christmas stitch-a-long. For each day starting December 1st a piece would be released to stitch until the 24th of December. This is the progress so far.

Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt from 2021 is being handquilted at the moment.

All of the flying border and set in triangles next to this border has been quilted. Have now moved onto quilting the large blocks on point.

A little bit of progress.

Things have been very slow for a while. Some trees lost their leaves quickly, while others are taking their sweet time. In the spring, I slipped on a patch of mud and hurt my knee. It seemed okay and at the end of September it started to get really bad with me ending up at the doctors to try and figure out what is going on with it: A Bakers cyst.

As it is all activities are switched up, with lots of variety thrown into the mix. Stitching so far on the Serengeti.

Hand quilting is going at a slow pace too. Everything will be quilted in the ditch with this one.

Found Kate Selene, she produce her own yarn with speckles or flecks of colours. Her patterns are simple and easy to follow, this is her Kate poncho? The yarn is the leftover rainbow yarn from a little dress I knitted a few years back. The idea is that it keeps one's neck and shoulders warm. Hubby says it reminds him of Shrek!

Finished the harvest.

Yesterday it was down right chilly outside, tomorrow night we are expecting -5C. The harvesting of the last vegetables happen. Beets, spinach, carrots and onions. Everything had to be cleaned, prepped and prepared. Spinach was blanched and frozen, beets cooked. Onions and carrots are chopped ready to be used in a few dishes which will be frozen for days when cooking will be not possible.

Stock was made in the slow cooker with some veggies as well. Nothing goes to waste. Grow lights is now installed and the herbs and a few other plants are now basking under them indoors.

Smocking continues, the smocking is now on the right side of the fabric.

The Serengeti Chatelaine has grown a bit more too.

The next quilt can be layered and basted, the backing finally came and now this can be started too.

Perfect timing as fall is changing very quickly.

Taking a break after a busy summer.

After a busy summer and spring, which included a number a of quilts, I took a two week break to catch up on the little things that was left on the to do list. The are now caught up. Our weather has gone from hot to cold and rainy in a day.

The leaves are dropping fast from the Maple trees and the leaves are turning colour at a rapid rate. Gardening season is now just cleaning up and harvesting the remaining veggies in the garden. Some herbs was potted up and is now indoors, enjoying an extended life sunning themselves from the kitchen window.

Started the Serengeti Chatelaine, getting slowly back to stitching and sewing. The quilting is now on the back burner for a short while. RSC23 from May is waiting in the wings, with the colder weather those will get love and attention soon.

Started andother stitching piece.

A smock dress is also being worked on.

Reverse smocking on the back first, then the last half is done on the right side of the fabric.