A stitch here and a stitch there

 

I am back quilting my pansy in the park by Thimbleberries

I have made 2 turns in a week

I am not sure you can see the stitches but they are there not sure why I am getting this yellowy lighting the top picture does a true color

Inch by Inch slowly I stitch so that I can get to another turn. I am hoping to have this done by the first snow fly

Twisted Stitchers Nov 2 and 3rd 2012

A Grand Quilt Show!

My quilt guild, The Twisted Stitchers of Ajax, is holding a quilt show next weekend, Nov 2nd and 3rd, at the Ajax Community Centre. I have attached the poster with all pertinent information and the Facebook link for those of you who have Facebook. I realize that many of you are not quilters and have no desire to attend the show yourself, but in the off chance you know someone who loves quilts, please help spread the word about our show and send the poster to them. We have an amazing display of quilts, a beautiful queen size quilt that will be raffled off to one lucky winner, a tea room where you can get yummy treats, soup or sandwiches, a boutique where you can purchase readymade quilted items like tablerunners, placemats and small quilts, a silent auction, vendors who sell all types of quilt related items and a display of the in-guild challenge pieces. We hope to see you there.

 

See side bar for the Flyer I hope to see you there will be working there Friday evening, and Saturday after noon

If I could only count

 

I got my leaves done but thought I could only send out seven sets of eight. I packaged my leaves after raking them up and look I have 9 packages of Seven. I  made one more leaf and then separated one of the packages putting a leaf  into each one and now I have 8 packages of eight…If I could only count….so there are 64 leaves waiting to flutter to all regions.

Wait not tired of making leaves yet!! Our BOM for guild RVQG is leaves as well so I whipped this baby up and now I can hand in a BOM. I will say one thing I am well practiced in HST by now would you not say?

I hope I have a chance at this BOM I think a few of these in the center would be lovely with what I got planned If I don`t guess what I will be making more leaves…LOL

There was lots of inspiration with our fall this year we really got the full Monty of colors in our area. Hope you are able to get some sewing time in and outside time too…

Leaves Falling

I bought this Bakers rake to go into the quilt room, We wrestled it downstairs had to cut 2 of the side spirals off to fit. We did and still are not divorced!
I should have taken a picture on how I got it here. Lucky for me they let me pick it up 6am on a Saturday. It only fit halfway in the back of the van I had to use bungies to secure it and then drive all the way home on the 400series highways so that I would not hit to many bumps, at that time there was not much traffic thank goodness.
 

I have all these projects waiting in line to start! this thing is iron and the weight has not affected it at all. So yes the Quilt room was once again rearranged. DH is amazed how I can fit something into a room that looks like no more won`t  fit into it.

 I am also making 64 leaves for a swap in the SmallTalk Yahoo group Group owner is Kathleen Tracy.If you view this blog she has some made too and they are gorgeous also has the link if you are interested in making any and sending some along.  Tried staging with my hydrangeas, this is the Alice Oakleaf one still my favorite

 you can see that some of them are still blooming this is a new one I got this year it is supposed to grow up to 10feet imagine these all over!! I am excited

 These are the pink diamonds below with some big hostas!!

I have been busy our wonderful Quilt guild Executives have been busy with our programs and so far we have had some great speakers.
Quilt show of one of the guilds I belong to Twisted Stitchers is having their show Nov 2&3rd hope you are able to attend. I am a new member there I won`t have a quilt this year but the next show I will there is not enough time to get one in.
I was supposed to go to a retreat with my other guild  but had to stick around the house this weekend so will work on gardens for winterizing, work on my leaves. Go to a Sat Sewday.

Well off to sew a little have a great weekend all..might be able to post again.

Trick or Treat

 

I have had a house guest so in between them sleeping I have cut some baskets of this quilt that I wanted to make

I am again digging into the scraps (I see the photo is yellow will try better lighting next time) All of the fabrics are from my scrap barrels even the background.

I only have 35 baskets ready for applique pretty good for a couple of hours the last 2 days.

This is the quilt, from Black Bird Designs I am sure you all have seen many do it, I have and love the pattern.  It is from the  When the Cold wind blows. (I am also working, I know, I know still on my love letters blocks)

I got that red file folder to carry my stuff in for applique while on lunch, sitting at the doctors, or  sitting on the 401 for 2hrs which I had to do yesterday…and of all days I brought no hand work.

I was stuck at the Enroute  at Woodstock the cut off to get off the highway was 4km away and that is where the accident was. It was 2hours sitting with car off watching people get out of their cars, walking their dogs, kids and themselves. Going up to Tim Horton`s for coffee…LEAVING THEIR CARS parked on a major highway. It was incredible! When we did start moving we had to drive around these cars…almost like at the movies. It took us another 1hr to drive 4km

The accident was a single motorcycle accident…there have been many in the last couple of days even one hitting a pedestrian. Please be careful out there! please drive safe, please remember you have to share the road. We all want to get home! It is getting darker earlier in the am and pm, make sure you are thinking of this and wearing appropriate clothes so that you can be seen.

Revamping the Quilting room

 

I have been busy revamping these cupboards are now in my hall full of fabric only

cupboards on the right are full of fabric and notions…don`t look on top there is stuff there too.

now this may not look tidy to you but it is to me and there is a load of projects that are UFO`s I am working on

these are my 4patchposie swap blocks, I am piecing the edges on each of the blocks and then putting a 1in strip in between they will look kiltered. The fabric that is the foundation is Laurel Birch…in the stash it was!! this is going to be 7x7 blocks they are 12 1/8 after the foundation is put on. it will be a nice size. I have used 49 of my swap blocks…its okay there were a couple of doubles.

as you can see my design wall can only hold 5 rows. I tried to place the blocks so it was light dark, light dark.

after this there will be another swap block to post after it is put together, and to finish the giant star this weekend.

okay back to work….

Peck's Pieces BOM

Peck's Pieces



take a look at this Gorgeous applique BOM I love the pattern the design is a perfect Halloween pattern