Omygosh.

Over the course of three years, each month I worked on the blocks in the called for colour. Scraps was cut, sewn, ironed and the blocks assembled. The stack of little blocks grew, until I had enough blocks to sew the top together. This happened and border fabrics was added. The top with the binding went into the rubbermaid for to be quilted pile and sat in there for almost two years. Over the summer I learnt how to longarm quilt and I got to quilt this one myself. The binding is on and the quilt got washed and is now dry. The irony of it was suppose to use all the scraps, reduce the scraps of fabrics so that the scrap pile would be gone, did not work. After sorting out the sewing room, instead I now have a rubbermaid filled with scraps from all the leftover fabric from completed projects over the years. The plan this fall? to sort these into shape groups and start sewing those together each month with RSC26.

The front and back of the quilt.

RSC has taken stalled projects, to finished projects. Thank you, Angela for hosting SoScrappy!

Summer.

This post is about this summer past, learning another part element of how to quilt. It has been fun, a lot of hard work and journey in how to work smarter not harder. Having the opportunity to learn to do this and the tools to do this, has freed hours of time for me. It allowed me to quilt a whole rubbermaid filled with quilt tops, panels that has been waiting for a while. I am so thankful it is now empty, in the process it all came in very handy. As one of our neighbours lost their home in our neighbourhood to a house fire, they escaped the house just in time and are alive. Things can be replaced, people not.

Two of these quilts was gifted to the children, both boys. The same fabrics was used in these two tops, just in different places.

A quilt for the parents is almost finished and will be going to them very soon.

I got to practice on various quilts and my own stuff, it included quilts for Survivors, babies, wedding and just quilts for at home or at the cottage.

The backs on all the quilts range from regular cotton, flannel, minky and fireside.

Baby quilts for two twin boys.

Playmat quilts.

A wedding quilt and the dragon fly quilt.

Red, The spledour sampler, Red work blocks gifted to me by a friend from retreat. Her stitching is absolutely beautiful! (French General fabrics in reds).

Some more quilts, this is just a part of the quilts I had a chance to work on and quilt. I continue to practice and learn. My apprentice internship is almost complete, as summer draws to a close. I am thankful to give my hands more time to enjoy some quiet stitching and applique time as I grow older. Hand quilting is one of my pleasures, as we age we have the choice to be kind to ourselves as well, to find the right balance for us in life.