Happy 80th Birthday Michelle!!!
Thank you Catherine for inviting me. It was an awesome tea and treats, appropriate games especially for Michelle and Wally plus others to chuckle over. AND talk about a surprise violin serenade by Amir Bissen, much to Michelle's heartfelt joy and my amazement to hear she was also a violinist and performed too!!! It was a lovely day for her special celebration!
https://musicprosmanitoba.ca/amir-bissen/
And many more joyous celebrations!!!
Sept 22nd
Well today Sylvia, Pat and I drove to Roseau River Bible Camp for Adiena's quilting retreat. Yes Edna did not join us, said it was too close to our August lake retreat for her. Plus she has family outings coming up. This time we had to bring tonight's supper and our lunches too. Yummy taco salad!!!
Well I finished quilting the last ACQ placemat and also sandwiched and quilted my Berry Pickers NICU quilt for ABC.
Pat is trying my Lil Twister with 5" charms and she's just about finished it - but says to piddly for her. I'm trying to get her to do the 2.5" mini charms and the Mini Twister, don't think that'll happen.
Sylvia was working on a Christmas tablerunner but forgot her green thread fir the applique, then switched to zippered bags but her retreat machine does not like sewing with plastic so both those packed up. She pulled out another table runner and I like the fall colours!!!
I think it's crash time for me! Achy!!!
Sept 23rd
Good morning! And it's another foggy morning at this retreat too! With morning greetings from a doe and her twins!
This is last nights work! This is a THIRD project Pat has made from fabric purchased at OMA's and Sylvia is working on a mixed bag of items.
Sept 1st
This kinda is my story some days! Gotta keep moving!!!
Thank you Margreet for posting this!!! 🥰
I totally agree AND everyone's tastes are not the same, thank goodness. So I do as I like and sometimes ask for someone's preference of my choices if undecided, not new ideas. 😘
Sept 3rd
It's been a long time I participated in a Fringe Tatters swap and with back/sciatic issues acting up again I just about didn't make it. So today my Autumn maple leaf bookmark with Split Rings (failed on the SCRM start - switched to rings on a chain) is in the mail on it's way to Australia. The pattern is by Debbie Arnold found on Etsy, but my own tail design. I used Lizbeth, #136 Autumn Spice, size 20. Hope the delivery is faster than my tardiness in tatting it?
Sept 4th
Today I picked Sylvia up and the flowers on her walkway are beautiful. Today I joined the St Vital quilting group that Sylvia has attended over the summer months. She finally finished off her UFO from 2009 and I added borders to my chevron wall hanging and the HSTs NICU coverlet today. The coverlet needs HSTs in a zig zag effect before repeating those borders again. This group is basically a work on your own projects amongst friends, so hopefully I'll start finishing some of my mega years of UFOs?
Sept 11th
I barely got up early enough to have breakfast, get ready and haul my sewing stuff out the door by 9:20 am. First off was an iced coffee for me, then picked up Sylvia (power failure since around 1am - surprised she was ready to go) before heading over to Meadowood for a day of quilting! Sylvia worked on various UFOs, 3 or 4 table runners quilted ready for binding. Me, I sewed up my previously cut pieces for male placemats for Meals on Wheels! After the first sewed up, I changed things a bit and like the 12x16" plans much better, not sure about the red side borders.
UPDATE: I removed the top n bottom black borders and changed to red! Yes much better!!! Ohhhhh and I sewed up 5 placemat tops tonight.
Sept 12th
Quilting, especially with family n friends seems to be my happy place lately!!!
This morning was tough but I shook it off to enjoy lunch with Norma, celebrating her one year anniversary on moving back to Winnipeg (actually the 14th) at the Lemon Tree Cafe. Lovely appetizers we shared but too full for a heavy dessert, will be back another day for tea and dessert. Norma had the lemon tea and I had the Chai latte iced and both were awesome!
Then a couple errands before home for a short nap, I was zonked. Then I cut out a couple pieced backs for the 5 placemats from the other day plus three more fronts and backs for more ACQ placemats. I was trying to make a dent in my large bag of Canada fabrics but not so!!!!! But some are reduced to pieces, might just move them to the scraps bin!
Sept 13th
Ohhhh for sure Autumn is on the way!!! Hopefully a couple weeks to enjoy the turning colours and cooler weather before Winter descends on us!
WTH!!! I left the Crew about 8:30ish near Birds Hill East Gate and soon was in the middle of weekday rush hour traffic turning onto Garven Road, maybe from Pineridge Hollow. Then as nearing Prineridge Golf Course again inundated with more traffic merging from that road onto Garven, and I say not safely. It was bumper to bumper into the city with at least three cop cars with vehicles pulled over. SHEESH!!! Then Archibald n Provencher there's another cop car, huge truck n trailer with a badly smashed front end on a fair sized car. CRAZY NIGHT OUT I'm saying!!! Home safe and sound and no speeding!!!
Sept 18th
What a slow achy start today but it continued to improve to an oakie dokie day topped off with a hot fudge sundae! A nice quilty day working on my Meals on Wheels placemats and showing Janet N my wall hanging from her donated triangles. A lunch visit with Dianne U before returning to my sewing. Today Sylvia was busy and I had others help me with setup and take down. On the way home I was WOW'd by the colours along the Red River so detoured to BDI for some pictures, but the sun hid behind clouds so not as initially dramatic!
Sept 21st
So AWESOME hockey is back!!!
GO JETS GO!!!
Congratulations Blue Jays on the first step!!!
Now Good Luck towards the Championship!!!
