Chemainus

I took my hubby and my mom to visit my dear, sweet, auntie on the island two weeks ago.  It was a lovely ferry ride over, and the weather was sunny and nice all weekend.  Vancouver Island is one of the most beautiful places in the world, I think, I would love to live there.  Or Sunshine Coast of B.C.  is equally as nice.  On the Friday of our visit we went to the little town of Chemainus. It is a cute little seaside town that has been invigorated with murals and quaint little shops, restaurants and B&B's to promote tourism.  Here is a site with some info.  http://www.chemainus.com/about/index.htm

My aunt Alice and my Mom Pat in the park.   The picture above is a cute little bed and breakfast that looks like a tiny castle.

scrapbusters day

This was the 3rd scrapbuster day we have had.  Wanda finds really easy block patterns that lend themselves well to being made with scraps.  We each do a block and then put them all together to see what a quilt would look like made with these block.  It is quite educational.We learned a really fast method of making half square triangles.  You start with 2 equal sized squares of fabric.  Sew them all around the outside, with right sides together and then cut them in half length wise and width wise and you wind up with 4 half square triangles.

1244 pieces

These baggies contain 1244 little cut out pieces of fabric.  They are for a mystery quilt and took about two weeks to finish cutting out.  I have now finished step l and used up about 350 of these pieces making 96 flying geese blocks. 

Langley Quilt Show

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Tea Cozy

Last March I spent 5 days on Vancouver Island.  It was the longest vacation I have had in many years.  Vancouver Island is gorgeous in the spring, it must be one of the world's most beautiful spots.  I was able to go to the Satin Moon quilt shop in Victoria.  I have wanted to visit that quilt shop for many years and I wasn't disappointed.  They have everything!  It is definitely what a quilt shop should be.  While I was there I bought a kit for a tea cozy.  I made it up last week and this is the result.  It turned out lovely.

The new bed

We finally broke down and bought a new bed.  It is a king size so it takes up about half the bedroom.  It is so comfortable compared to the old bed.  It also came with a 42" flat screen TV as a promotion.  Now Arnie will have a big TV in his den.  It will take up about half the den lol.  It is such a comfortable bed but I am used to a very soft, saggy mattress so I hope I can sleep on this one.  I wish I could sleep period.  Lately I lay awake until 4 in the morning.  So this is a picture of the new bed.  Now all I need is a new head board and some nice bed tables.  This is the picture from the web site.  Its not my bedroom.  I would like my bedroom to look like this.  I would have to get a new house. lol

Ionne MacCauley

My quilt guild had the wonderful opportunity to have fiber artist Ionne MacCauley from Qualicum, B.C. as our guest speaker on Tuesday.  As a member of the program committee I and 3 other members had a lovely time taking Ionne out to dinner before the meeting.   We went to an Italian restaurant, Palliotti's,  and had a great dinner and chat with Ionne.   She is a very nice woman and a super artist.  Her lecture was about colour in quilts and all that goes with it.  Her trunk show was marvolus and we were treated to a look at about 65 of her quilts.  She has a new book out called Color for the Terrified Quilter, so I just had to buy it.  She autographed it for me. I can't wait to make a quilt from her book.
http://www.ionnequilts.com/index.htm
Take a look at her web site and be inspired.