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.

Omygosh.

One of the many reasons so many years ago, when I join RSC yearly colour challenge was to get some of the blocks done for this quilt. I was hoping to use up most of my scraps of fabric? Did it work? Nope, the scrap bin is still filled to almost the top. Pineapple blocks use a lot of fabric, maybe that will be my next challenge blocks for RSC?

It is not finished yet, it needs trimming and binding. Thank you to RSC colour challenge this quilt became a reality and are scraps no more. A fellow quilter who saw it, thought I was crazy to make it in the first place. Was this an insanity project? Many years ago I saw on at the Quilt Show in Ottawa, which inspired me to want to make one too one day.

All this was possible because it was done with no stress. Make a couple of blocks in the called for colour each month, then put them away in a box. This happened over the course of three years, then it was all laid out and sewn row by row. Those border fabrics did not want to play nice and was unpicked a few times. It is now quilted, one of the projects I got to practiced on the longarm machine. August has been a busy learning curve month, for which I will be grateful for a long time to come.

Michigan, a mystery quilt along with Laundry BasketQuilts a few years back and made with Da Gama quilting cottons from South Africa also got quilted. It has aqua and blues in it too! The binding is on and it is a finished quilt.

The hummingbirds keepcoming to the feeder and they chase each other, as they do not want to share the feeder.

We went for a picnic yesterday not far from where we live.

Dragon fly.

A finish, it includes so many shades of blues and some aqua as well. This pattern is Indigo Way mystery from Bonnie Hunter a few years ago. Just after I started this one, my friend told me about her nephew whom had just had surgery to remove tumours from his spine and that this 21 year old was diagnosed with cancer. I knew then this would be his quilt.

Michael has been fighting hard and the chemo was not working, recently he started radiation therapy which he is responding to positively to!

I teach classes occasionally at my local quilt shop. A few months back the owner asked if any of us wanted to learn how to longarm quilting, two of us raised our hands. I am currently learning this skill and it is exhilarating and terrifying at the same time, but a lot of fun. It is all about the practice, training the brain. Quilt number six was one of my own, what to quilt on this one? When it is one of your own the descision of how to quilt it, is so much more difficult.

All over waves to represent water and to anchor the base for quilting a giant dragon fly ontop of the waves, a dragon fly flying over the water. Dragonflies also represent transformation, hoping that it will help this young man to beat this disease. Last weekend he received his quilt, he loves it and it is now on his bed. In going about our days, please take a moment to say a prayer for Michael and all others who are in need of healing. Our prayers are powerful!