Hockeyville

Yes, Maple Ridge is hockeyville.  You can't go 5 feet without seeing a car or a house with a Canucks flag.  Our team has made it in to the Stanley Cup finals.  Finally something to cheer about.

2012 Guild Raffle Quilt

This is the block for our 2012 guild raffle quilt.  Lovely fabric, but I don't know if there is enough contrast between the floral and the tan.  It will be a nice quilt and we will have to see when its all together if the tan stands out more.

A round tuit

This is a round tuit.  You know the expression, I'll get a round to it. Our quilt guild is having a queen of the ufos challenge and the person who finishes the most ufo's (unfinished objects) will win this little tuit on a ribbon to wear around her neck.  The size of it is 3 1/2 inches across and there were some really teensy pieces in it.

A Post Card Day

My daughter Nicole and her friend Jessica like to get together and sew.  It's great for these two young girls to sew together as they have the same interests in projects.  The two of them made aprons together and this week I taught them how to make fiber art postcards, which I love making.  They had a great time making the postcards and I was really impressed at how talented they were and what great imagination they have.  Here are some pictures of them at work with their postcards and in their aprons.

Happy St. Patty's Day

I usually try to make corned beef and cabbage for St. Patty's day, but I just didn't get around to getting a corned beef.  So I made some cookies for dessert.  I am going to make cole slaw as the cabbage and maybe sloppy joes. 

My Canadian in Cloth to date

First off, it has been a long winter.  The weather hasn't been to cold.  Not much snow.  No...  I have had one form or another of flu, cold, recuperating and then getting sick again.  Right now I have a stomach virus that has been nasty.  Next week is spring.  Hopefully that will take all the sickness with it.  My quilting has suffered through the sickness as I haven't felt like doing much more than watching Netflix on TV (what a good investment that is!) Seriously, I love Netflix.  On Saturday I watched "How to Marry a Millionaire" with Betty Grable, Marylin Monroe and Lauren Bacall.  It was great.  I have been watching a lot of the old British sitcoms too.  It has been making the time pass.
Anyway on to my Canadiana in Cloth.  I am trying to catch up now, I have quite a few more blocks to do before I can start putting it together. I like colourfull blocks so whereas the teacher tends to do her blocks a solid colour I have been trying to introduce a few different colours into my blocks.  This is where I am right now

Welcome Wall Hanging

I finally finished my welcome wall hanging I started a year ago.  I took a class on the buggy barn technique.  It is quite an interesting way of cutting out and sewing together, but I wasn't sure that I like the technique enough to do a bed sized quilt so I just chose a wall hanging to do.  We had to purchase one of the buggy barn books and then chose one of the projects.  You can buy the books in just about any quilting store or order them online. Here is their website to look at all the neat quilts! http://www.buggybarnquilts.com/