Red & White Quilt Top Completed

I'm very pleased with the outcome of this project & I hope the newlyweds like it too! The size finished at 99" x 99" & will probably  shrink a bit with the machine quilting. The cornerstones were my doing as I didn't want to seam the top & bottom due to shortage in width...they look like 4 leaf clovers, lucky for me! it all worked out & the quilt is now part of their family heirlooms. A gift from my heart.

Sunflowers & Gladiolas

While in Miramichi this week , I purchased some fresh sunflowers at the Sobeys & at the Dollar Store some fake gladiolas. Gladiolas make me think of my Grandpa Haynes, he would enter his prize gladiola flowers from his garden in the London Western Fair for judging. I cannot remember if he won but I do remember how beautiful his flowers were & how after a visit he would send me home with an armful of these beauties. I smile at sunflowers, they're happy flowers & gladiolas make me smile remembering my Grandpa :-)

Project Stone Driveway Complete!

Large equipment looks small in scale to this driveway, but was a welcome sight to see that the work was going to be done.

Bright & early  Monday morning the heavy vehicles started to arrive for "Project Stone". The sand, large stone, & dirt that had filled the very large potholes so beautifully last year had turned into a nightmare of work for me this year. The east coast has had a lot of rain & if it doesn't rain there's night dew & morning dew that coats the green grass, surrounding the cottage, which then will coat the paws of my three pets...then as they walk over the laneway, the wet is now coated with sand...Boris, Tom & Jerry all wear 'sand boots' into the cottage, on my newly installed lament floor. It has been like living at the beach this summer...without the summer weather, sand is everywhere, I even tracked it into the cars. So the only solution that could be had was stone, asphalting would be way too costly on this size driveway.

One side of the hoop lane-way...not complete yet, waiting on the dump truck to deliver more black stone.

The other side of the lane-way completed ;-)

More black stone...last of the loads delivered this morning...that makes 3 1/2 big dump truck loads now.

The big truck leaves & the plow guy comes to push it down level, the lane-way looks beautiful! Thank you to Gene's guys. Looks Great!

Red & White Quilt

Here's the positive & negative blocks that finish at  a 8'' square.

This is two out of the six rows of the quilt, then a 1'' white border, followed by a 8'' red border, I allowed a bit more border as these pillow-top mattresses require more than the traditional length to cover the bed . 

The red & white quilt begins...

Raining Cats & Dogs...

 Nap-time in his basket

Too much camera flashing...woke the sleeping dog.

It's raining cats & dogs...again, there's no shortage of rain here on the east coast. Boris has been napping in his basket, seems like days now & I just let the sleeping dog do just that. The ovens on again cooking up the 'Spanish Bar Cake', the kind that I use to buy at the A&P a few years back. Bill's arriving tomorrow ;-) the cottage is ready,the mowing was done 2 nights ago too! It's going to be a sunny weekend, maybe, just maybe it won't rain.

Wild Life Sighting!

Looking out my kitchen window...this is what I saw this afternoon. The deer grazed around the yard & then disappeared into the backwoods. The return is becoming  regular, I tried to get a picture last time but my camera's battery was dead! I got this photo today...see what I saw!! 

A Pincushion From Orphan Blocks

What a sweet pincushion...it's made from an extra block, left over from a wall hanging I'm working on. The reverse side is another orphan block from another completed project.

Happy Birthday Francis ;-)