Where I've been

presenting Mr & Mrs C!  It's Party Time!

It was a wonderful day and a gorgeous couple - now to just get their quilt finished before they get back from their honeymoon!
(my beautiful step daughter and her handsome new husband)

Happy quilting!

It's reveal day

take a quick hop over to the Tangled Textiles blog and see what we've all been working on!  Some fabulous representations of our theme "Celebrate".
Here's mine:

Happy quilting!

Back again!

Had a wonderful quick visit home. It was so good to see friends and family, even for a very short visit.  Some of the little ones just grow so fast!

Managed to, with some very last minute planning, connect with some old high school friends.  Amazing - after nearly 35 years, still able to slip back into the old conversations!

I also re-connected with a few other friends and had a fabulous time.  It was race week in Chester, and we just happened to be able to grab a ride out to where the races were taking place.  So lovely to be out on the water, with the sun and the wind in our faces!

Now that I'm back, I've got a few projects that still need to get finished - the reveal date for the second Tangled Textiles challenge is this Thursday - I've made some progress, but a lot more work is in order.  I've had some fun creating some painted, stamped and photo transferred fabric around the theme Celebrate, and we'll have to wait and see how much of it makes it's way into the finished piece.

Before I left, I quickly added two borders to "The Wedding Quilt".  Unfortunately, I don't like them, so now they have to come off and be re-worked.  Drats!  That means that present is probably going to be even later than first thought.  Off to get some work done!

Happy quilting!

I owe you one

no, more like 3 or 5 posts by this time, but we'll start with 1!

Have I been doing a lot of sewing in my absence from blogging?  No, not really - in fact I've got some deadlines appearing very quickly that may have to undergo some modifications - one of them for sure. (don't you love the sound those deadlines make as they going flying past???)

See, my step daughter is getting married at the end of the month, and I've got this wedding quilt on the go - at the moment, it is on my design wall and looking like this:

Okay, it's not really crooked!

Not bad, if I really had the three weeks that the calendar would appear to say I have to get it finished.  In reality, I have 1 week - one week! eeeek! I am going home to Nova Scotia for a week starting on Friday, back here for a week, and then we head to WA state - do a little touring around, visiting and what not the week before the wedding.  So really, I've got that little bit of a short week stuck in the middle there to decide on and put the borders on, sandwich it, quilt it and bind it.  Hmmm.  I do not do all nighters well, and I don't think work will let me have some time off just to quilt it, so it will be late.  Upside is that they are going on a honeymoon and won't really need it until a little later, and of course, we've finally got summer, so it's too warm for a quilt...  Give me half a second, and I can justify anything.  Really!

I am happy with how it is looking, and am trying to figure out exactly how I will be quilting it.  I suspect this will be another one done with straight (or fairly straight!) quilting, although I may decide to make it even later still and go crazy with the quilting.  We'll see!

I've also got a Tangled Textiles Challenge reveal coming up on August 18 - yes, that is right in the middle of that short little week of the wedding quilt.  I've got my idea, I've even got a few of the components all sorted out.  I just need to find time to do something with this

and this.

and my embroidery machine and then I'll be able to celebrate!

and because I didn't show them to you in July, here are the July 4x6ers postcards that I sent - the theme on this one was Free Choice - so I choose to celebrate our friendship.

These were fun to make - I created some paper fabric, and then used brown paper bags and stamping.  Our next theme is "naked".  Ohh la la!  That is going to be an interesting one!  The idea was to send them naked - i.e. with no envelopes, but it has since been expanded, if we so choose!  Not sure where I'm going to end up on that one...

and to really inspire you, I think you should take a look at this quilt - I love it - it is so amazing and the detail is out of this world!  Cynthia is an amazing local artist - please go check out her website and blog and her fabrics on Spoonflower, I can bet you won't be disappointed!

Happy quilting!