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 The lighting is not the best for this picture but I have pulled out my Love Letters and have 2 blocks left this one was almost done but now done and now I am working on the Rose Bud block.
This is from the book When the Cold Wind Blows I hope to have the other 2 blocks done and the top together by March 9th do you think I can do it?

You see it might be a little difficult Buddy first photo bombs my block and then takes over my lap...LOL as you can see he lays back to the point of almost falling that I have to catch and hold him...stinker...but he is my stinker, look how soft his fur is.
I kiss his forehead and it is like kissing a baby`s forehead it is so fine and soft. Buddy follows me everywhere, is currently on my lap sleeping (on prednisone right now)

Buddy was very sick on the weekend but Amberlea Animal Clinic  was there for us and he is doing much better. Buddy is back to his space invasion antics (Love)

This Dr Fulop and her team are fabulous with him and have wonderful loving patience with Sir Grumpiness`s antics when handled. They have helped me come a long way with him. They trim his nails every 2 weeks and put his Advantage on for me. I only give him love...lucky me.

I am linking up to Needle and Thread Network.  Great place to visit other Canadian bloggers.

c c c cold

 Well we are finally getting some real Ontario weather. As you can see we are not moving too far from the quilt.

We are also pulling out some PHD`s (projects half done) I have resurrected the Blocks and trying to finish my last 2 of the Love Letters series from Black Bird Designs.

I always wonder when I start back at my projects why I stopped because I so enjoy doing them. I probably started something else.

so back to curling up under the quilt with my wee partner and starting on the next block

Stay warm...spring is coming I can feel it.

Stitch`n with friends

 I have been keeping up with the 1857 Quilt I have all the blocks done for Jan and Feb and now

I will work on more PHD`s for my guest speaking at the Yorkshire Rose Quilt guild on March 16, 2016. What a wonderful compliment when a guild asks you to present your quilts. It means that someone has liked what you have done and would like you to share with their friends. This guild has the best quilt shows a wonderful mixture of hand and machine work stunning work!

 So you can see I am still working also on my Trick or Treat baskets by BBD I am on the last 100 out of 300 so I feel very accomplished with this project. I am hoping to have it pieced together for the trunk show.

I also prepped the circles for the 1857 and then got them all done already I used the fabrics that were left from the Trick or Treat fabrics they are from a swap I did in the Kathleen Tracy`s Small Talk yahoo group. I am also saving whats left of the 6in blocks for the Sue Garman`s OMG quilt.

 So I also sat on Sunday with Karen H and her Mom and stitched with them. Karen and I are both working on 1857 quilt together she is going more towards the Traditional Red and Green and using the back basting method where I am more towards the CW fabrics and using needle turn method.

 So then Karen had me lay all my blocks out that I had done so far to see what it looked like. i am pretty happy so far!

It is fun to stitch with Karen and her mom! They also made me a wonderful pizza with cauliflower crust it was delicious. Karen knows how to keep the tummy very happy.

I have been telling Rose Marie about my stitching and she has decided to join us cyber stitching hers we will share long distance.

 Anne (Karen`s Mom) is stitching the blocks from Into the Meadow with Black Bird Designs and you can see she is having great fun with these.

I don`t know if you remember me talking about the Mini Auction from Yorkshire Rose well Anne is making this one for donation is it not adorable! love her flowers growing along the fence!

Well I am sure you have stuff to do I am a  little chatty today but lots going on. Go do some quilting and let me know what you are doing!

Almost

 I am not sure if you remember when We Three quilters did a 9in red and neutral swap of material to make this Bonnie Hunter pattern
I started working on this on one of the retreats I went to, I laid out the blocks didn`t like it so brought them home and played more then came up with this. There is great value in the blocks this is what makes it so spectacular to me!
You can see Rose Marie`s here Mary no blogger I didn`t get a picture of hers. So 3 quilters all different, same fabric.

 Well I had the top pieced for a while but had not decided to hand or machine quilt it. So glad I decided to machine. I took it to Whirl`s and Swirl`s and picked out the pattern Tracey found a perfect thread and then...ugh what did I do to myself!
This was a very difficult pattern for me as a beginner so I thought. As I went along I got comfortable and it turned out pretty good. It has the same quirkiness all the way through it so it looks like it should be. I am happy how it turned out. Very happy

 This is huge it took 5 1/2hours to quilt. I am not a slow machine quilter (it is better to go at a good clip rather than try to be perfect on every line) It is about 100x120 because I wanted to use every block

 Rose Marie will want to see the back. This was the fabric for last years row by row, I thought it appropriate since it was a quilting adventure I hope you can bring it up closer to see all the quilting names of rivers, roads, highways, towns, and Lakes it is very entertaining.

 These are my blocks for the 1857 quilt, I am loving this, i have 4 done and the 2 more prepped and ready.

Have a great weekend!

January is not as long as you think

 So you think January is the longest month next thing you know you are looking at the last weekend of January! Where did it go?! We barely had any snow so far which is great for a Chihuahua residence.

I posted about this quilt I am working on well I finally have the blocks done and have it on the design wall.

There are only 526 HST triangles but lets not forget I am also going to do a double border of them as well so not done yet.

 So as you can see it here there is lots of space for some groovy modern quilting. I can`t do it myself but need to know who can in the Eastern Toronto-Oshawa area or who wants too.

I think I mentioned in the other post this is from Quiltmaker magazine I am posting the picture because I wanted to show how different a quilts personality changes with fabric choices.

Here are some selfies of Buddy saying enough I want so lap time and me with fabric on the forehead, I did not realize until after that I was also wearing the fabric these are the little corners clipped off the HST
Hope you are enjoying January as much as I did  with theis first project almost completed.

365 quilt

Is anyone working on? I caught up last night got 13 done. it is free and there are over 11, 000 quilters signed up for it. go to the 365 Quilt link and they are also on Facebook

here is what I have so far...and you will love the look of a Chi that needs some mama love.

 these are 14 blocks done already. now the thing that scares me

we are already heading into our second week of January! how does that happen?

I also taught another one block wonder class in the later part of 2015 and one of the students, a total beginner sent me this gorgeous quilt, she was a great student! and look her quilt is just incredible. I hope to see the others as well they all picked great fabric

I put Buddy in because this is the best picture of him 

time to post

 I found this pattern as an ad  in one of my mags a while back and really liked it... then leafing through one of my mags I found the pattern! This is why it is so hard to give them up

I finished the first Walking Dead quilt I will post a picture this week but started on the Second Series quilt I love how it is turning out

I had bought the whole bolt of the Walking Dead fabric so i have enough to do what I would like
This is from the Quilters newsletter mag Jan/Feb 2000


As you can see it kinda looks like blades swirling around them.