Where did August go?!
I've been busy which makes time go by quickly, maybe I need to slow down with my KYROTIME in the sewing room but it brings me such pleasure & makes my heart sing.
I'm having fun with the 'A Very Merry Un-Christmas an ornament collection from Hattie and Della & The Rusty Crow with an Alice In Wonderland theme. These two alternate every week for an ornament with the theme. Last week was this Tea Time pattern, then Rusty Crow did the Chesser Cat that I'm working on now. This is a free pattern of the week for just that week so jump in & have a look, I'm enjoying these ornaments!
Ornament #1 - Tea Time
This ornament made me think of my granddaughter Madison as she gifted me this teapot 10+ years ago. She told her dad that it reminded her of Grammie & could she get it for me. I was delighted to receive it & have teatime with it.
Are these not the most whimsical miniature flowers to view?! This cluster fell of the hoya plant that has been on the greater room mezzanine for the last couple of years. The hoya loves the morning sun that it receives & has been flowering for months now.
The lighthouse embroidered quilt that my girlfriend Liz started before she passed is now done!
It was one of the many WIPS in the trunk that she sent me, I've finished two others of her quilts too!
Makes me wonder who I will my UFOs to get finished! lol
The border took a long time as each 6" block has 30+ pieces to it but I wanted the design to keep with the nautical theme from the embroidered lighthouses. I'm pleased & I'm sure she's smiling down on my creation of her work. The quilt finished 57" x 57" & will go into the sunporch next year & has gone off to have anchors quilted into it & a navy blue binding to finish it off when it returns!
Block #8 Nestled Inn designed by Heather Moylan Anderson of Country Ramble.
One more block to do then the border & this BOW is done!
With fall closing in I have a couple of fall creations I want to make.
I designed this 30" x 18" hooked rug with crows & ravens to enhance the Kathy Schmitz Maryland fabric collection. You'll be seeing a lot of things made with that collection in the blog visits to come.
I love her designer style & have for many years, soon I'll be working on a Baltimore panel style quilt from that fabric collection as we transform our season into fall/winter.
It keeps my hands busy at night now that the lighthouse quilt is done, just needs the binding another nighttime project & I don't mind working on dark fabric with the wonderful invention of the ott light!
I played one morning making this simple 11.5" x 35" runner with my favourite blue & white toile. Who am I kidding, I love toile in every colour combination but only had these squares to play with I put it together from scraps that I was left out for another project that has not gotten done yet. The border & binding are leftover from Edyta Sitar's BOW quilt that I completed this summer. This runner will fit my kitchen sideboard for the summer.
This is the back of the runner & as you can see this is an older 10+ yrs old fabric & the rich colour was not so stable in the folds!
Gone is my theory that fabric will last longer than the lettuce in the refrigerator... it did last for quite a while but this shows you why your quilts must be opened, aired & refolded another way!
I used this designer's fabric & loved the colour but the hand feel to the fabric is so different from the RJR or Northcott fabric feel. Over time things do improve that are being manufactured & now with the cost of quilting fabric skyrocketing, one must expect quality fabric!
Bill saw this at one of the many airport shops that he was in a couple of weeks ago & laughed & thought of how much I would love this rabbit. I do have a fondness for rabbits.
And I loved this character tea towel!!
I hung Mr. Rabbit & his radish find, from the kitchen sideboard & it still makes me giggly when I view him sneaking off with this radish! lol
August has had dog days of summer for sure with the high humidity here. Bridget still wants to play ball outside & it does do her in as she's so competitive with her brother Baxter.! Look at that tongue!!!
Her tongue grew & her head did not! It really shows when she's hot just how long it really is!
Then she falls to the ground & pants hard to cool down in the airconditioned house.
We laugh every time because we know she does that but we forgot to tell Dianne their 10-day sitter back in October, she thought that she killed the dog playing ball with them too long!! lol
Bridget does play hard & feels it way more than Baxter that barely breaks into a pant & can run longer & harder than her. They are so different in every way & we have enjoyed them so much.
Speaking of rabbits, I was online with our quilt shop Edge Squared Quilting, Bev does a live showing of fabric with pricing & you can purchase it that night to Pick up later or she'll mail it to you via Canada Post. I purchased two of these panels to be gifted to baby girls. I used black/white polka dots for a framing border to fabric from my stash & voila it all came together is now off to be quilted with little flowers for the Pretty Bunny!
In my flannel stash, I had enough bright pink with black cats on it to do both quilts & a cribsheet of one set & a cute bunny fabric for the other set. Warm & cozy flannel for our harsh cold winters.
I pulled out a VIP vintage print panel that I had made up a few years back of Alice with her cat & rabbit to continue with the theme of the week of ornaments that I'm doing now. I love creating different vignettes to look at in different areas of the house throughout the changing seasons.
Here are some photos our son Nick took when he was here on vacation.
Baxter & Bridget in tandem with playing stick.
We all stopped by to see if the covered bridge was finished with its upgrading & it was!
I never left the truck because the mosquitoes were bad & I didn't have deet spray!
You can see the newer boards that were installed to keep this beauty alive! Such a great thing to see covered bridges still being used today!
The daylight gnomes & their home by the bay.
Nightime with the gnomes!!
Another beautiful sunset in our backyard!
Daytime, I wish I would have finished the window, it is now foiled & just needs flux & sodering to complete it!
Nicholas really captured the nighttime life of the gnomes in this photo!!
Cooling off in the Miramichi Bay with playing stick!
These two are so much fun to watch as they play with each other.
Thank you Nick for taking these photos for us & I hope that you too enjoyed watching Bridget & Baxter at play.
We'll have the last of our sons & DIL's coming in September, completing seeing our family of 'Our Three Sons' finishing before fall arrives on September 22nd.
It is so good to have them here as the last time together was their wedding on October 11th which is Thanksgiving this year & their first anniversary!!
I found this saying in one of my journaling books.
Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. (writer)
How true.
Thank you for stopping by for this visit, I hope you do pop in again to the east coast living that I am so enjoying & love sharing with you.
Cynthia
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