Cold weather and flannel.

With the onset of cold weather, we think of soft buttery flannels, minky and fireside fabrics. This past summer I worked with all of these fabrics as backings to quilts. A new favourite emerged from them, fireside! Having never used it before it was surprisingly easy to quilt and soft, so super soft.

We all enjoy our rag quilts, made with flannel. A new one I discovered is made with circles, all cut on a studio die. Flannel on the back and cotton on the front, with flannel inbetween the two layers. They come in precut kits from my local quilt shop, The Sewing Cafe.

The best part, you just start to sew. A quick project all ready for Christmas. The circles are already clipped, so once it is made one can wash and dry it.

We went to visit our favourite kitty, the humane society was visiting on the same day and we got to meet some more kitties along the way.

Binding on.

This one was longarm quilted in September? It had the binding strips cut, not sewn together. This past weekend it finally got the binding made and attached to the quilt. This was the last one that needed to be finished.

The Chandelier quilt has been on my list of trying to make for a few years. Recently a request to make one came my way, it was time.

Tula Pink fabrics in a rainbow of colours. It is a free pattern, takes one and a half charm packs and 2.73 meters of background fabric.

Only one block to make! 41 Blocks in total, for a 60" x 60" Top. One can add 6" borders. (This would require an extra 1.25m of fabric for the borders).

It was a quick project, so if one is pressed for time this one can be done fairly fast.

We had snow, for a few days and more to come with rain.

This was the perfect distraction from the cold weather. Binding made and waiting to be quilted, the kits are available at The Sewing Cafe, (sew@thesewingcafe.ca).

Seasons change.

On one of my recent walks I saw this beautful tree. The leaves are all falling down at great speed and whispers of snow flakes flying is becoming more and more noticeable.

I have been missing from blogging world for a bit, catching up on getting the house and garden all ready for winter. It was a very busy summer with me learning to longarm quilt. Took the car for a wash, winter tyres are on the car. We are migrating indoors for the winter.

Bought some fabric to make a warm coat, my sewing machine did not like the fibers in the woven fabric. I decided to pull out some perle cotton and sew it with that, the outer shell. The outer shell is done, the lining is luckily not an issue and it could be sewn by machine in a few hours.

A bit more work to do on the coat, not rushing the process.

Worked on a zipper pouch, to hold very specific tools for my machine all together in one place. For years now I wanted to create a pouch for said tools, now they will be together.

Made a start on Amsterdam on the canal, house number one.

Sunset on our walk.