After a couple of weeks of appliqueing, my Dilly Flowers is a top! So happy to have this done!  I've been busy frankenpiecing batting pieces for this top.  This is a lap size top, so pulling batting pieces for this is much easier than for a full size top.   My hubby asked why not use the roll of batting instead?  Smaller pieces just need to be used up first; otherwise, things will get out of control!  You all know how that is, don't you?  LOL I just want to bring to your attention that the vine design is not mine.  It came from Shutterstock.com but chan ..read more

This month, my Dilly Flower will be worked on again. I was going with the applique on the layout shown below, but that got scrapped. This will be the new applique that will be sewn.   The look is daintier and I'm much happier now and can finally move on with this project.  Once I was happy with the layout .... with a few changes ..... I got right into doing prep work for the applique. Before I knew it, one half of the applique has been done.  Now onto the last half and then time for borders! Lots of green for St. Patrick's Day!   Our area is due for some ki ..read more

Yeah me!  I'm so pleased to have this top done.  Do you like my ombre look border?  I love it,  but it was a bit of a pain to do.  Those strips of fabrics were moved around again and again and sewn, ripped undone and resewn countless times.  It was so worth it in the end .... but ..... and I will leave it at that!  LOL A line of stitching was done around the perimeter of the border to prevent seams popping open while at the LAer. Notice that all my seams (except for the outer border seam) have been pressed open?  I'm starting to do this more and more ..read more

I still am not done appliqueing the circles onto some of the neutral square fabrics ..... but couldn't wait and just had to start sewing some of the nine patch blocks together to test out my border idea.   This project is coming together quite nicely! Before I knew it, all the circles were done!  Time to finish sewing the sections together! Jack the Ripper had to come out ..... somehow I goofed and switched one half row and sewed it together.  It was only when I started to pin the entire row for sewing that I noticed the issue.  At first, I thought that a lot of ri ..read more

Much progress has been made on my red/neutral circles wall hanging! Not all the circles have been appliqued onto the neutral squares .... only about 1/4 left to do. Cherish your day, cherish your life ..read more

The end of February cheated us of a few days when we are used to either 30 or 31 days in a month .... but I got my quilt finished just in the nick of time! No-blog Mary was ahead of me this month.  My quilt didn't have it's binding on yet and with only two days to go ..... whew got there in the end. This is Mary's quilt for February: and this is my quilt (another post to follow on this quilt): Now, for March, Mary put her hand in the garbage bag and out came this quilt.  She never knows what she will pull out .... always a surprise.  I had to ask her about this quilt.  ..read more

My circles top has made much progress.  It will be a wall hanging, so .... it shouldn't take too long to complete this ..... so says the woman who gets distracted by squirrels!  LOL What I'm doing is a nine-patch block of circles (no sashing).  The dark red fabric with the lighter circle is the center of the nine-patch.  My layout will be 4 blocks wide x 6 blocks long.  On the wall right now, the far right column is almost complete. Yesterday, we got another dumping of snow, but didn't get the freezing rain that southern Ontario received.  Lucky for us!  I ..read more

Another Winding Trails top using the pattern by Karen Griska Quilts.  I'm on a roll making kids quilts.  This will be a donation quilt for a women's shelter in a neighbouring town.  Personally, I think it is ugly .... but a child will love it.  I'm anxious to see this quilted up because a quilt changes once quilted.  My LAer has just finished quilting it and it just needs to be picked up. Now, this top I love.  Berry Smoothie by Villa Rosa Designs and it also will be going to the same place.  This top used up a chunk of fabric for each block a ..read more

Oh my, how I enjoyed designing and making this quilt.  After doodling around on EQ7, that wavy border just had to be made and something EPP would make this a perfect take-along project. So, the project got started and slowly but surely, this quilt came to be. This project was supposed to be for our day guild celebration of Canada's 150th birthday.  The stipulation was that only red and white fabrics could be used.  We could use tone-on-tone reds, red with white and white tone-on-tone and white with red fabrics.  Well, try and find all fabrics with just red and white in them ..read more

Well, no-blog Mary and I got 2023 off to a good start ..... but I had to do a bit of prodding to get Mary working on finishing her binding.  Our weather was dull and dreary last month and Mary was affected by the lack of sunshine ..... but she got there in the end and we can close out the month of January with a finished quilt.  Yeah us! This is Mary's January quilt: This is my January quilt and there will be more about this quilt on another post: For February, Mary is doing a basket quilt: and this will be my quilt to bind.   It is very cold here today .... -27C and ev ..read more