free time to blog again!

Since my last posting, we listed and sold our home of 24 years!  We had been preparing for this event for quite some time but it was still both incredibly exciting and nerve-racking.

Not having to worry about "Open Houses" anymore, I can now have all of my sewing 'stuff' back out in plain sight and get on with the fun:

                                      I sent this quilt to my daughter in Halifax and she then sent the
                                       following photo, showing that the quilt meets Cali's approval!

                                                                              

 

I also had a chance to get back to this project and almost complete it.

(I still plan to embroider a 'wire' under the birds' legs)

Memory Lane

After 24 years of living in the same house we have decided to move!  And boy do we have a lot of stuff!!! Twenty-four years of just 'putting it away' in the attic (hoarding)... It is not pretty!

 Most of the stuff we pull out of the attic I question why it ever went in there!!#!#@!! But tonight we came across some gems and I just have to share. . .

                                    This is where I got my start! 

I remember getting this miniature sewing machine for Christmas when I was either in grade 1 or 2 (the mid- sixties) from my Aunt Mollie.  I even have the accessories in a bag that I must have made out of the leg from a pair of my Dad's pyjama pants! 

How cute it that?

Does it look familiar to anyone else?

In like a lion...

                                                                     How true today!

but I am looking forward to the lamb part!

birds

I love checking out clever quilting blogs and then I get so inspired that I have to leave the computer and immediately go to my sewing machine and make something, like this:

 The idea and the pattern for this cute little bird is from Kajsa, a very generous and talented artist in Finland.

As I was trying to get a photo of all of my birds, wouldn't you know that a breeze would come up and they tried their best to fly!

Blue sky

                                                     It was such a beautiful day for a walk ...

 all of that blue sky got me thinking...

and look at those bare branches!  Something is missing...

I was inspired and set to work

to be continued!

commuting

                                   Luckily I had my camera with me on my commute home..........

because the sky was so odd...

clouds, sun, and new snow, all in one!

sure beats grid-lock!

More hearts...

I got kind of carried away with making the felt hearts, and then used some nontraditional

colour combinations to send to our daughters living in Quebec and Nova Scotia...

                                         ... and then there is the table runner that is Valentine "ish"