Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Tuesday Treat and someone is giving away a hare

 
My daughter, her boys and the new little chicks.
Those little chicks grow really, really quickly.



Psst, go check out my friend Midge at Soggibottom. She is giving away a Dartmoor Hare. No, no, not a real one. It's one that she made...

Monday, May 20, 2013

Slow

Well, I added a couple more blocks to this. It will get done one day. I  needed to take a photo so that I would know what colour blocks to make next and also, to see what colours I have enough of. In each block there is one colour and one neutral or lighter shade of the same colour. I have not repeated any of the colours but there are repeats of the lights - mainly white and off-white.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Various things

Here's the final 5 little doll quilts with their little pillows that our little group, the Champagne Quilters, have made for the Toys for Tots campaign in connection with the Superior Association of Woodworkers.

All of this putting fabrics together for these little quilts has inspired Marg to make a few for her church bazaar.
 
My Christmas cactus has decided to bloom.
 
This was my backyard last week. The pear tree was in bloom, the forsythia were blooming and there is another tree to the left peeking through that has pretty pink flowers. They are still blooming but the wind came at took some away.
 
Mother Nature never fails to surprise us. Even though it wasn't cold, we did get hail last week (click on the photo for a bigger view.) These are my front steps and yes, they do need a good paint job but I'm hoping that they get stripped and stained instead of painted. Our hail wasn't as big as some other people got in the suburbs. There, they got golf ball sized hail.
 
I have started yet another new project but this time, it's cross stitch. I needed something that I could do in the evening while watching TV. I have already changed the colours. This is from Stitchy Kitty's web site and these squares were supposed to be pink, alternating with red. I don't really like red and pink together. Two shades of blue are more to my liking.
 
I'm still working away on Patric's baby quilt but it's slow going. I added to some of the blocks that I already made and changed the last bear's colouring. Having to re-think things is taking time but it will be up on the frames ready to hand quilt shortly (I hope.)

Friday, May 17, 2013

Earthquake

We aren't known for our earth movements here in good old Toronto but this morning at 9:45 a.m., there was a 4.8 magnitude earthquake.
It's not the first time I have felt an earthquake. Around here, they are mild, and not everyone feels it. I was just sitting here on my couch, beside one of my cats and as she woke up to clean herself, I felt the house vibrate. I thought about it and realized it was an earthquake because there isn't any construction outside. It was the same feeling as before. I think this makes 3 so far, for me.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/earthquakes-felt-across-eastern-ontario-southwestern-quebec-1.1285923

Sorry, no photos.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Tuesday Treat

While I was in B.C. for a month visiting with my two little grandsons, the ladies I quilt with were keeping busy.

Marg and Ann made 11 more little doll quilts with pillows for the Toys for Tots in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
 
This is just one example of the little doll beds that the Superior Association of Woodworkers (SAW) makes and donates at Christmas. Our little quilts will be used as bedding for these. Check out the Gallery link on their website to see examples of other bed designs that they have done in the past.