Australia bush fire blocks

Lately, I have been busy making blocks and hexagons to send to Australia.

These are my blocks that were sent to Janet for quilts. The quilts will be given to homeless folks from those crazy bush fires.These hexagons and a pin cushion are for Robyn. Not only is the need for quilts in demand, but also craft projects for those folks that need something to do with their hands as time drags on. Hexagons are a good project as all that is needed is a needle and thread and a pair of scissors.

The hexagon project will be on-going and I'll be making up more each month to send to Australia for as long as they are needed.

So, if you want to help out, just visit those blogs. There are other blogs as well that are requesting help, but I'm just associating with these two.

Have a great day!

Siggies

My latest siggies have been arriving pretty steadily. Even my DH looks forward to seeing my siggies in the mail and where they come from. I love to hear about their lives and why they chose their siggy motif.
#1 - Petronella, France
#2 – Fenny, The Netherlands
#3 – Tonny, The Netherlands
#4 – Alberta, Italy
#5 – Manie, The Netherlands
#6 – Magdi, Hungary
#7 – Marion, Germany
#8 – Marga,The Netherlands
#9 – Julie, Australia
#10 – Ann, France Ann was the recipient of a mini quilt that I made for the 4SQS swap last year and when I saw her siggy, I just had to have one from her.
#11 - Mary, Florida, USA
#12 - Heike, Germany
#13– Teresa, Oregon USA
#14– Irmgard, Germany
#15– Marie-Louise, Switzerland

There are more to show but I need to get them pinned onto a board for photo taking. Instead of doing that, I have been busy working on blocks and hexagons to send to a couple of different places for victims of the bushfires in Australia. They need to be mailed ASAP as the folks down under need time to work on the blocks and quilts for the cooler weather approaching.

Have a great day!

It's a Chore

Some days, it is just too hard to clean the house. Why, you ask? The girls would rather play.

So while Ashes literally has me stopped in my tracks,Hank is head-first in the toy bucket sniffing out the perfect toy.

Oh, what the heck ….. I’ll play with them for a bit and once they are all tuckered out and snoozing, I’ll continue my cleaning. Life is too short and we all have to stop and play.

Enjoy!

Quilts on Ladder ... continued

Now, this quilt has not been shown on my blog. It was made quite a number of years ago and is hand quilted.

The pattern is the same as this quilt. Quite a difference in the colour variation and I am always amazed by looking at these two quilts what you can do with colour and a great variety of scraps.

Enjoy and have a great day!

Pattern source: Uneven Plaid from McCall's Quick Quilts, Nov. 1999

Quilts on Ladder

As promised, here are the quilts that were displayed on my ladder. You have seen these (all but one quilt) before. Instead of having you clicking back to previous posts, I have decided to just show you the quilts again.

These photos were all taken from our deck amongst the knee deep piles of snow.

When you look at these quilts, can you tell that blue is my favourite colour?

more on the next post ......

Blooming Flowers and fabric help

Here it is at last …. Blooming Flowers. I had help with the name (thanks KDL) and many thanks to all that left suggestions. There are a few suggested names that I will use for upcoming quilts that have flowers in the pattern.

I am go glad that I went with the ‘what if ’ idea which resulted in this quilt.

For such a wee quilt, it has been long in finishing. I hope that you were not bored with my long drawn out photos showing the progress along the way

These booklets were my source for the embroidered flowers. I bought these about 30 yrs. ago and hardly used them until now. I will be planning more quilts using these booklets. Most of the patterns had to be reduced to fit into the octagons.

In search of fabric .....

My SIL wants to make a quilt similar to this one. This quilts hangs in an oncology office at a Terrace, B.C. hospital and she has admired this quilt for a while now.

Do you see the angel fabric? Does anyone know where we can find this fabric?

Have a great day!

Snow for the Aussies

This morning in my email, there was a request to send some snow to Australia as they endure their heatwave right now (and have been for some time).

So, how about some photos of Niagara Falls with its' display of snow and ice? Will that help cool some of you down a tad? The water spray is freezing cold!

Enjoy and stay cool!