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.

Wedding quilt and wall hanging.

The wedding quilt finished.

The quilting longarm quilted by Sharron. She did a fantastic job in a very short space of time, thank you!

Magic binding sewn on, it is my favourite way to do binding now. Love how well it works and it is easy on the hands too.

The wall hanging with the colours the couple gave me, these strands are now sewn and woven together for a lifetime.

It is as unique as the couple.

Lots of Love quilted into this one.

The quilts are now wrapped and will be given to the couple on their wedding day.

It is a long weekend up north, we are celebrating Thanksgiving!

Finishes are happening.

The lavender bloomed over the summer, it was the best show we have had from these bushes.

In the mail this puzzle arrived from my friend Kate.

It is a charm for a zipper pull on a bag.

Another birthday was celebrated, Lego is always on the list for gifts. No matter the age, we still get requests for Pirate and Sonic Lego. Toy story and Star wars as well. This journey with construction blocks started just before they turned 18 months and four and a half years old. It has not lost its appeal or lustre over the years and continues to go strong.

Bumble bee sleaping on a red orange haricot bean flower.

On a recent trip to another part of the city, we saw these funky construction of quirky buildings going up, it is apartment blocks, not too sure how safe one would feel in those... On a lighter note, the wedding quilt is finished almost. Just needs the label sewn to the back, the wall hanging is layered. It is being hand quilted at the moment. Both will be gifted to the happy couple on their wedding day.

Relaxing slowly.

It takes time to slow down and just be after a very busy start to the year and not getting many down time to relax. This plant is growing from the neighbors side into our garden, it is putting on a show.

The tomatoes are a treat, enjoying everyone that we are gifted by nature. The gherkins are suppose to be small, this large one was at the back. Found it last week and it was almost eight inches long, this is what happens when we get so much rain.

Made binding for two quilts.

We also became fur baby grandparents over the summer.

A wallhanging in the making, strip sets are sewn together.

Another great nephew will be arriving and a request for a baby boy quilt was requested, with anchors.

A time to relax…

We can finally relax a bit this summer over the weekends. Almost all has been spent fixing and rebuilding the fence and other diy jobs which needed to be done outdoors. Still some small projects to get done, but most of the big jobs are done, last sunday we went on a picnic at one of the small lakes about twenty minutes away.

We did not take the canoe with, we were all just too tired for that. Just the basket with our picnic and the blanket came along with us. Afterwards we went for a walk and found some adult swings? We had not been on a swing in many years, oh boy what fun it was to be flying high on a swing and be free as a kid. Amazing and just what we needed.

The wedding quilt is now a flimsy. This was it, as it was on the sheet on the carpet. The end result is this so far. It is booked to go to the longarm quilter next week.

We also have tomatoes going ripe on the vine.

Diane got her AT The Met on the wall, all framed and finished.

She also finished London, she has since started Rome. Lots of projects ready to get framed in September.

The hollyhocks gave me a new surprise, double flowers on the next lot to flower.