I read a lot of the Blogs on quilting, and some times I think “boy do I live a boring life” .  I don’t go away on vacations, and I don’t have a lot of quilting pictures, because I work full time, and there is not much time left for quilting.  But this weekend I looked around me and realized that I have a wonderful life that I just need to appreciate the things I have.   I live in Montreal a large city, and I am 5 minutes away from the airport, so things are busy and noisy.  I am use to the noisy I’ve lived in my home for 57 years, my father built the house back in the days when the area was considered the country for the city dwellers, and the area was mostly farms.  On the weekends during the summer we have a trailer in the country, it is so nice and peaceful, no phone, no TV and no internet. 

 

 

 

 

Yes that is a dog on a pillow on the table, Tinker likes to be up off the ground, as there is too many mosquitos on the ground , so put a pillow anywhere and she will get on it and go to sleep.

 

 

 You can listen to the birds and watch the clouds float by.  If you want to go for a little drive about 10 minutes you can drive over to Huntington which is a beautiful small town that has the prettiest waterfall.   

 

 

 

This Saturday was a perfect day in the country, not too cold not too hot and no rain.  Hubby went golfing with 3 friends, now that might not seem like a big thing, but hubby has only played golf once or twice in his life.  He had a great time as the others he played with didn’t take the game seriously they all just went out to have a good time.

 

Tonight I go and pick up 2 "new" sewing machines I found on Kijjiji one is a vintage machine "White" wich is supose to still work and has the knee pedal, and is only costing $20.00

.  The other is the old treddle Singer sewing machine.  This one is costing 70.00 but I love the look of the machine, and the lady still has the book for it and  spare parts.

June 4th I keep promising myself that I will try to blog more often then never do.  I think its because I always want to post a picture when I post, and of course I've forgotten to take the picture.  Well Summer is almost here, it is starting to get warmer here.  I'm thinking about buying an air conditioner to put in at the trailer.  Having 5 dogs with us, they need a place to get out of the heat.  This weekend I did nothing, not any knitting, crocheting or sewing, just couldn't settle down to something. When I got home yesterday there was a box waiting for me.  I so love getting things in the mail.  This was some wool I had ordered from Elann, and some knitting needles, as the sweaters that are knitted in the round you need a very long circular needled, so I ordered the new type of knitting needle that you attach to different lengths of cables.  I also ordered 12 balls of this cotton in order to make another of the circular sweaters.   The really nice part was I happened to order the stuff on memorial day and they had a special on, so I got 8 balls of wool for free, the free stuff took up just as much space as my order.  I think I might knit some winter baby hats with it, or even a baby sweater.  So much tofinish and so litle time.

The weather in this province is enough to drive you nuts this year.  First we had snow in April and now rain all weekend and cold.  This is the first time I can remember having to turn the furnace on in May.  The trailer opened last weekend, and this weekend I spent Saturday and Sunday inside with heater running,   I did get to watch the 3^rd season of Game of Thrones.  That is one of the things I love about the trailer, I choose a series and on Friday and Saturday night after 8:00 pm I watch the series and knit or crochet or sew.   I finally finished 3 dress potholders for a lady on one of the quilting blogs who doesn’t crochet. 

 

 

 I do like crocheting these dresses but don’t really want any for me.  I am working on a knitted circular sweater for me just like the child size ones I made.  I’ve also decided that my goal for this Summer is to finish the hexagon quilt I’ve been working on.  I like it as I can carry the individual hexagons around with me, and work on putting them together on the weekend.  Of course I’ll work on some other projects that I have on the go.

A little knitting

Tuesday seems like a great day , the trailer opens this Friday and next weekend is a long weekend.  The weather is beautiful right now with temperatures in the 70’s, even the tulips are in bloom.  I’ve decided that the rest of this year will be finishing up projects I have going and not starting new ones, or if I start a new one then it will only be to use up my stash of yarn or material.   This past week I put the quilting aside, and did some knitting.  A friend was knitting this pattern which was free at http://www.elann.com/commerce.web/product_search_results.aspx?keyword=pinwheel%20sweater .

I really loved the look of it, and have tons of knitting worsted yarn laying around, so I knitted up 2 child size sweaters. 

Here they are on 2 dolls I have, they would fit a  2 or 3 year old.  The first picture is not too bad, unfortunately the second one the colors are slightly off as I took them with a flash.

 

 

I would love to make the adult one in the colors shown on the elann site, but for now I’ve started and adult size one with some yarn I have on hand.  At lunch hours right now I am crocheting a dress potholder for a fellow quilt blogger that doesn’t crochet. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Spring is here

April 25, 2013 Thursday

We are finally getting spring like weather, the question is will we get any Tulips this year.  This is what are Tulips looked like on April 14,2013

 

The plants are still alive but no flowers yet.

 

I ended up making another 2 mug rugs.

 

I love doing paper pieced hexagons, or anything hand sewed as they are so easy to carry with me in my backpack to work.  I should make one more of these so I have a set of 4. Another thing on my todo list.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also have diamonds that I paper piece, here is one of the miniature blankets I’m working on,  I just need to hand quilt it now. This was a fun blanket to make, altho I had to rip out a few blocks, as our new puppy decide she didn't like a few of them and chewed them.  My fault tho I shouldn't of left it in a place where she could get it.

I jopined a group on yahoo a month ago called smallquilttalk.  I love this group each month they have a mini quilt to work on, by doing them I learn so much.  I did these 3 mini quilts for the April month one.  After doing them i can see where I really need to take more time in making sure the blocks go together right, with this small of work when things don't match it really shows.

 

 

I also finished a minature scrappy quilt for my dolls.

Just took quick pics of theses blankets this morning before leaving for work.

Only 2 more weekends before the tailer park opens, then I get to go and spend my weekends in the country.  I so am looking forward to sitting around the camp fire and chatting with friends, and doing some hand sewing.

 

 

 

Spring is finally here

It has been such a long winter, at times I wondered if spring would ever get here. This week is the first week that I have felt there is hope that Summer is comming.  Its a sunny day and not too cold, and the snow is nearly all gone.  I've been busy this last month with starting a new job, ok not really a new job but had some  responsibilities added. I have been quilting every night, I've discoverd minature quilts and my newest interest is mug rugs.  Here is a mug rug I just made from some hexies that I had left over from one of the minature quilts I was working on.  the minature quilt is finished and pinned but is waiting to be hand quilted.  I decided the mug rug would have no right side or wrong side, so each side has 19 hexies.  I then put batting in between and sewed them together.

 

 As you can see I keep my pens and pencils in a cup on my desk at work. 

March already!  The snow is finally starting to melt.  I shouldn’t complain about it, I love living in a country where we have the four seasons Each season has its good points, it just seems winter lasts longer than the others.  I’ve been busy working on miniature quilts, I am really enjoying doing them.  When I started doing miniature quilts  I thought they would go much quicker than full size quilts do,  but they take a long time to make.  The miniatures I am making are mostly done with hand sewing, so I can carry it around with me and work on it when ever I get a few minutes.  The one I have been working on is one made of Hexagons.  I love the look of scrap quilts, and have been making this one with hexagons.  I wanted it to be big enough to be a bed quilt for my 18” doll. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This quilt did take me awhile to do, first I had to cut out the paper templates, then baste the material around the hexagons, then I needed to sew all the hexagons together.  I then added the orange border which has become my favorite material, I used it in the easystreet project and decided to border this quilt with it, I then finished the quilt by hand quilting it and adding the white binding.I really like the quilt and am thinking about doing a large quilt like it, but right now I am working on 2 other miniature quilts one using the starburst and one doing blocks. 

 

 

 

 

 

I love block quilts!! I think it was one of my favorites when I first started looking at quilts.  I will do a miniature quilt and might even make a baby quilt also using the blocks.  Both are paper pieced so I can carry them back and forth with me to work.   I work in a college, so instead of carrying a purse I carry a backpack.  I always have something in my backpack pack to work on.  I’m always afraid that I might be at work one day and the electricity will go out, and I’ll have to sit there with nothing to do. I even keep some hexies in my top drawer just in case. I want to work on the miniatures tonight, but sigh it’s my sister-in-law’s birthday this weekend an I’m knitting  her a decorative scarf and will have to work on that this week.