Scrappy Xmas Trees

It is time to show you this finished quilt.  It didn’t get displayed for the holidays.  It was brought to my night guild at beginning of December for Show & Tell and it stayed in the bag since then.  I simply forgot about it until today.   Jeez Louise.

It was fun going through my Xmas scraps and pulling anything that would work and I’m very happy with the results.

Quilt Details

Pattern Source:  corianderquilts.com

Block size:  12” finished

Quilt size:  62” x 74-1/2” (size before quilting and washed and dried:  65” x 77-1/4”)

Quilt started:  November 2024

Top finished:  January 2025

Quilt finished:  December 2025

Batting:  Hobbs poly

Machine quilted by:  Kathy Wareham 

Cherish your day, cherish your life and cherish your country.  My country will always be CANADA.  Elbows up!

Using up scraps time!

Since I’m drowning in scraps ….. what is a gal to do …… but start a new Hexie quilt.  I needed a project to keep my hands moving and this is perfect.

There will be a blue border all around and all other colours inside.  I’m still designing as I go along and the inside could change.

I’m staying warm and cosy inside while we have sleet and a flash freeze happening outside.

So, I think I will just pull out my 37 pencils and sharpen them up ….. because I can and don’t have an orange clown telling me I need only one.   BTW, can a person buy just one pencil?  Nah, they come in a box of 10 at least.  What an idiot.  While your economy is going down, down, down, our Canadian economy is doing ok.  Our BUY CANADIAN is strong and growing.  How lovely to see more and more Canadian products on the store shelves these days.  Oh and there is a FB site to warn us of products that were made in USA but labelled to make us think it was made in Canada.  We’re on to your scam!  We have moved on and won’t be back because there are a lot of American idiots waiting in the wings and we have learned our lesson.

Today, I bought a dark fruit cake that has been soaked in brandy.  Does anyone else eat fruit cake?  We grew up eating it at Xmas time and I’m always looking for different brands in search of finding the version that my Mom used to make.

Cherish your day, cherish your life and cherish your country!  My country will always be CANADA!  Elbows up, Canada!

Hamster stockings

My great nieces got new hamsters this year (their old hamsters passed on) and with Xmas coming ….. well they needed new stockings.  Luckily, I kept the pattern from the previous stockings and gave them the fronts and let them design what they wanted.  

Here they are hanging up with their other stockings that I have made over the years.

In other news, my knitted leg warmers are coming along slowly, but not when this little guy is awake and alert.  He has already chewed my yarn up in two places, so they stay safely hidden until he goes for a nap in his cubby hole.

 

 The next quilt up for binding is this one.

As I’m sitting here, a snow plow just went by and plowed the street leaving a ridge at the bottom of our driveway.  I was looking at it and saw its name ….. Catch My Drift ….. we have been naming our snow plows here for a few years now.  Not sure where the tradition started but it sure made me chuckle.  LOL. I was just too slow in getting a photo.  Next time, I’ll be ready.

Cherish your day, cherish your life and cherish your country.  My country will always be CANADA!  Elbows up!