Last Scrapbag day for the year

...was yesterday and we tied 5 more quilts. I remembered in the night to take my camera but by morning had forgotten. Linda took a couple pictures, one of Fiona's bright yellow "Tasty Treat" and my red "Double Slice" which she emailed. I tried to get them out of there to post here but they are now lost. I did bring the Double Slice home to bind so I will eventually post it.

We also went for our Christmas lunch and a good time was had by all. With 6 weeks until the next meeting, I should be able to get a lot done.Joanne gave me 4 baby panels though and some already made up Sunbonnet Sue squares.  I do have some nice stretches of time off coming up so I should be able to finish things from my todo list while adding more of course.

Sewcializers Christmas Lunch

Today was our group's annual lunch and gift exchange. Of course I forgot my camera. Gayle received a beautiful colour wheel clock from Fiona. Many lovely birthday and Christmas gifts were exchanged along with lots of laughs.

Afterwards I went into work to bid in the Silent Auction Fundraiser. All the items were donated and the girls raised $1500.00 for a needy single mother for Christmas. They did a great job for a last minute project. $75.00 of that was mine, I won 4 items all told, one being a $99.00 purse. I donated the Jewel Box quilt from the last retreat which was won by Peggy in the front office.A nice juicy bid too!

I took the Scrapbag donations for the United Church into work . It was said that a dolly quilt would have been nice for someone so I just made one up for her out of squares already cut, no batting and just a flannel backing.

Some of us will be doing a Jennifer Chiavarini  giving quilt.  Cathy issued the challenge for the winter. Mine will go to Project Linus which is what the book is about according to Joanne. I haven't read it yet and missed her last one too.

Next week will be the last Scrapbag tying day and lunch for the year. What an amazing job these ladies did.183 quilts this year, I'm proud to know them.

Sewcializers

We had a fun workshop today with Elizabeth guiding us through the making of this bag  "The Best Bag Ever" from a magazine. All were different and each one was great. Fiona brought her new puppy Toby with her and he was a very good boy indeed.

The Guild's Show Oct 19th and 20th was fabulous. Unfortunately I forgot my camera and don't know how to retrieve photos from other sources but my friend Joanne has them on her blog.

Next week I'll be off to Philly to visit MAtt for my "big" birthday, yikes!

A few more......

Little Premmie

Mug Rugs

Flannel Panel

The little pale blue flannel is a premmie quilt for the Linus Project at the guild. Doing the binding on it gave me fits! The 2 tiny ones are mug rugs for the toonie table at the Guild show. And the larger blue flannel panel went to Scrapbags. The Guild, Sewcializers and Scrapbags have all started again.

More finishes

It's been so long that I posted new pictures that the format has changed.

The Witch Is In

Fall Machine Applique

Little Ghost

The Pumpkin Divas

Oak Leaves and Acorns

Elm Creek Table Runner

Here are some small quilts that I will put in the Kincardine Guild For The Birds Show this month. The only new one is the Witch. The Leaves and Acorns is a wool felt table topper. That was made 3 years ago during my recouperation from hip surgery. I love wool felt  hand applique, no edges to turn under. The Divas is a pettern from a magazine that must be about 5 years old. My friend had it on the wall in her Sunshine Fabric Shop during Pumpkinfest one year.And how long ago did that close? The leaves table runner is  from an Elm Creek pattern free brochure from the same shop. Some of the fabric is Elm Creek by Red Rooster from there as well. The little ghost is paper pieced and usually hangs on my door at Halloween but that spot is going to the witch this year. The fall applique was one of my first free motion meanders.

I didn't do anything to enter into the Challenge at the show.

A few more finishes

Charms and White

This Jewel Box was the mystery quilt taught by Joanne at this year's retreat. I decided to piano key the border to incorporate leftover pieces.

The Charms and White was taken from a table runner picture I saw as a way to use those pesky charm packs that look so nice then you don't know what to do with them. I think I'll make a few more .

The Rectangles was a dolly of the month pattern but it morphed into a crib size. Another good scappy one.

The Puzzle was an old leftover Scrapbag kit that I brought home to finish. Not one of my favorites but a finish none the less.

The Puzzle and Rectangles will go to Scrapbags, the Charms to the Linus Project at the Guild and I'm undecided about the Jewel Box.

Jewel Box

Puzzle

Rectangles

Ashley's baby's quilt

Here's a cute flannel  puppy panel that I bought a while back. A co-worker Ashley had a cute little baby boy in May and we had a shower for her recently. I made up this quilt for baby Jax. I free motioned around the puppies.

Show Season

The Quilt Show spring season is over for the local area for the summer. This year we took in Ailsa Craig for Quilts of Denmark, the St. Mary's show, Fergus with a side trip to the Greenwood Quiltery in Guelph and finally  "It's the Berries" in Goderich, the prettiest little town in Ontario. I had never been to that part of Goderich before and it is so pretty that it's worth the trip. That part survived the tornado of a year ago.And I can't believe that I forgot my camera each time. Since it's strawberry season, big servings of strawberry shortcake were on the menu in Goderich. I can't believe that I couldn't eat the whole piece, me whose favorite food group is carbs!! It was delicious though!
Now to get some work done over the summer for my Guild's show in October, "For the Birds" in Kincardine.

All packed up

Joyce and all that stuff

Gayle and  Gail looking at "perky" Fiona

Sally, Cathy and Gayle

Gloria, Joanne, Joyce, Lois

Retreat beds

Lois's

Mine

Retreat finishes

Del and her items as she had to leave early

Retreat , actual sewing being done

Del and Gloria who look surprisingly alike

Cathy offering up a chocolate break

Gayle

Joyce hard at work

Joanne, Gail and Del

Featherweight machines at the Retreat

Fiona

Sally

Cathy

Lois

Me

Sewcializers 2nd Annual Schoolhouse Retreat at Trail's End Lodge

I spilled my wine! Honest!

The Sewcializers  as it turned out , year ending retreat went well. In fact it was great! We all had a ball didn't we Fiona?

The first night we had a BBQ steak dinner cooked by our hostesses Gayle and Cathy.

The next day we did a Jewel Box Mystery Quilt taught by Joanne. There's Sally trying out a zig zag setting.

We also did iron totes that look like cute purses and a folded flower block

Saturday night was a murder mystery. There's Patti the stewardess on the left, Wynter the socialite in the middle who loves spending her daddy's money, and nurse Mary or Ratchet as she became known as, with her bad bedside manner on the right. The picture on the right has Pete the gambler, Joe the cop and Bess the former model.
Unfortunately  the rest of the cast of characters were so evil that their pictures didn't turn out.

1 more sleep

Tomorrow is the start of the Sewcializers Retreat, this year in Tobermory. I'm almost all packed up except for food and clothes. The weather isn't going above 20 so it should be good for staying indoors and sewing. I'm going to take/bring (sorry Pete) my Featherweight.It doesn't get used very much and as Fiona just got one there will be 5 of them there that I know of .In fact I haven't used it in so long that I had to get the book out to see how to thread it. It does such a beautiful stitch and I do have a 1/2" foot for it. But I found the bottom of the carrying case falling off though, so duct tape to the rescue. I'll have to get a new case somewhere. Got the camera so pictures to follow.

Bad Blogger

A Big Dolly

Charms and White

It's been a while since my last post but have been busy and going on road trips. The St. Mary's show was great as usual and we found a nice shop in Stratford-Ye Olde Quilt Shoppe. Last week was the Ailsa Craig show of Quilts of Denmark. It was terrific, on par with the Netherlands from last year, good food too. And I forgot my camera both times. A lot of really nice arty quilts were shown. Someone at today's guild meeting had an arty block in red and greens that she made at a workshop there. And a lot of beautiful projects were shown at the guild  show and tell. I showed the Clifford from the last post and donated it to Linus. My first show and tell but the members are so nice and supportive that I didn't feel intinidated. Joanne did a trunk show of her prolific quilts, big ones, small ones and litty bitty ones.

This quilt for Scrapbags is last month's dolly quilt. It's waaay too big for a dolly but will make a nice crib quilt.


 This one is made from a charm pack that I  half squared with white after seeing online somewhere what to do with those charm packs. I think I'll keep it for  that day when a little girl quilt is needed..

A Little Dolly

The bottom one is made from a block that was found in a bag of donations at Scrapbags. It is a little dolly.

The Sewcializers retreat is coming up fast. I do have my projects ready I think. It's in Tobermorey so no early morning ferry trips are involved.

recent projects

4 Square

log cabin

Clifford Saves the Day

sashed 9 patch

Here are a few things that I have done this past month: a scrappy Log Cabin  block for the guild"s Block of the Month, A Clifford the Big Red Dog panel that will go to Project Linus and two more dollies for the Scrapbags. I think I'm over the bright green and pink combination now after the last one. I did see a nice pink and brown hourglass baby quilt though and will probably do one.The dollies are from Lyn Brown's Blog of Dolly Quilts of the Month.
This past Thursday Elizabeth and I went to an Art Quilt show at the museum in Stratford. The art quilts were small wall hangings and were brilliant, done in fabric, mixed media, embellishments, really nice. We shopped in the town at a nice shop, went to Shakespeare and Newton and  stopped at Anna Mae's on the way home for a delicious roast beef dinner. We did our bit for the economy for sure.The beautiful unseasonal weather was just calling for a road trip.
Still having a problem with Bella. Now we think it's the Cruise Control and I have sent it back for replacement. I was very disappointed when the encoder was replaced and the problem remained the same.