Catchup - April 24th-May 12th, 2026

 April 24th

Yummy lunch at Oakwood Cafe with Edna before the St Vital Book Sale.

April 29th

I've been told our Canada Geese have made nests in crazy places! I know a few pairs have built nests on city office buildings roof tops, definitely crazy! Well this is the second year I know of that a pair have returned to this planter, just feet from the blocks entrance, don't know how the ducklings get out of there if they can't fly yet? And last year the 6" or more from pot ground to top of the pot was full of downpour water flooding the nest. I heard someone moved the eggs but not sure if they were safe and survived. Hope not this year!

May 2nd

We're at the ACQ quilting retreat and yesterday I was too tired to take or post pictures. Sylvia is working on a donation fish quilt, Pat worked on placemats and now trying out the migrating flying geese we learnt at our last meeting demo from Lynda K. Edna and I both are working on our smaller Art After Dark gecko wall hangings. I just finished attaching all my pieces and shut that project down. I switched to the quilting on my catus wall hanging.

A couple more pictures. Pat's migrating geese, Sylvia's finished fish quilt top and she started a second quilt top.

May 7th

Today at Meadowood I finished the binding on my Cacti - Art After Dark class from Assiniboine Circle Quilters taught by Jackie J. Well I still have the label to prep and sew in place! I it!!!

May 9th

I finally snapped out of my funkie mood today. Hope it stays away for awhile! Early breakfast with Sylvia, checked out Piece It Together's spring sale and was THRILLED to see one of my donated tops completed and for sale for their fundraiser! Got some quilt ideas too along with a few small purchases!

Then home and picked up my shuttles and tatted a couple more scissor fobs.

May 11th

Yeah!!! Finally after 30 plus years I'm finally taking in an Eastern Canada fall leaves tour, with Sylvia.

Then shortly afterwards I'll be off to Toronto area to visit my girlfriends!!! That'll be it for 2026 and not sure what's in store for 2027.

https://www.railtraveltours.com/.../northern-ontarios...

May 12th

I missed posting about Sunday's outing at the Woodcarvers' Competition where Randy (Pat's hubby) showed his work and received three ribbons! WOW!!! The walking sticks were initially worked on by Sylvia's hubby Len and Randy finished them off! I enjoyed Randy's help in understanding some of the intricasies of this hobby! Thank you!

Update: added Randy's photo of the moose brains he added into the walking stick's indent, googly eyes etc above!

Catchup - April 8th-23rd, 2026

 April 8th

OMGG!!! I honestly thought the forecast would be wrong again! Glad I have a couple more hours before going out!

But 1pm it's all gone and a muddy mess now!

OMGG I'm so GLAD I stopped into Oakwook for lunch! My first choice was fish n chips but they were out. So ordered their Cafe breakfast, then out she walked with this scrumptious looking burger and I groaned! She asked if I wanted to change, yes if eggs not cracked, she ran into the kitchen yelling stop just as he was going to crack them and he laughed! Boy am I glad!!!

So yes they are open and waiting for you to come back, open till 3ish!

April 9th

Nice to have another awesome cataract surgery result. Basically better than 20/20 vision in both eyes and I don't need glasses for driving (at least for awhile to come)! So I called MPI as per Dr Levi's suggestion for a vision test to have that restriction removed. AND no issue about driving in the mean time, but if pulled over I'll need to produce the surgery cards to not be penalized and to make an appointment sooner than later to make that license change. Thank GOD as many have mentioned I'm not to be driving at all, MPI lady chuckled and said not so. Anyways, I've an appointment tomorrow afternoon and if passed (which Dr Levi said I'd blow that test out of the water now) MPI will send out a corrected license soon. YEAH!!! I was leary for much highway driving because of the naysayers!

I still need readers or progressive glasses for closeup and the computer, that appointment is May 20th. Then I'll take my 6 month old glasses back to Costco go get new progressive lenses put in!!!

April 12th

Saturday at ACQ gathering, I received a medium ziplock bag of scraps from Wendy R of MPQ via her friend Karen B and I could not resist prepping them ready to sew when hockey is on that night. Thank you very much Wendy R for thinking of me!!! I too can't bear to throw these cut off triangles or even 1" squares or strips away, even if for dog beds!!!

So today I finished off sewing HSTs and now pressing and then will start squaring up. I'm thinking something for myself as there are lots of awesome batiks plus hopefully another NICU coverlet.

Also a couple pics from the meeting of the girls at lunch and Edna working on her cactus project!

April 13th

Well this was a pretty good day. I spent the afternoon pressing all the sewn HSTs and sorted into sizes for future trimming.

The top row I might do scrappy pinwheel blocks spacers, sashings and borders for a NICU coverlet.

I decided the middle two rows with black are going to be mine, maybe a wall hanging or placemat.

The bottom two rows with green print along with the medium and dark brown HSTs into some quilt pattern for a NICU coverlet.

So see Wendy R half your scraps have been prepped for projects! Thank you!

April 14th

Finally I ventured out for a walk around the block or two with a stop halfway for lunch at Tim's along with 4 rest stops. Beautiful day out considering we woke to a fresh snow covering.

April 16th

Yesterday I picked up Edna, Sylvia and Dianne for Boston Pizza lunch then a road trip out to Adiena's quilt shop in Grunthal. Adiena was happy to see us and luckily other customers came earlier so we had the place to ourselves. Then on the way home Edna spotted this pair of cranes and I checked that the coast was clear, stopped and got out to take pictures. They were a ways out but still lovely to see! It was really windy in the morning but for once calmed down on the way home.

April 21st

After another appointment I stopped into Sylvia's and we finished off this lovely but horrible to piece together puzzle! It's done and dismantled and puzzle season maybe finished till fall?

Then home and sorted out my previously sewn up 1.25" HSTs, then today pressed and trimmed them (see the tiny pile of trimmings) before planning the pinwheel blocks. I'm not sure what size I'll trim the pinwheels down to but will alternate them with pulled out 1.25" strips from the same bag of scraps, from quilters. This time it's going to be around a 10"x12" quilt for this Angel wall hanging (15.5 x 27.5") for myself! I saw this pattern in OMA's sale box and knew it was MINE!!! Another use for my tiny shared triangles!

April 23rd

Today I joined the Meadowood Quilters and sewed on the vertical sashings onto my 24 potato chip blocks. Then I started on the horizontal sashings with cornerstones and attached two rows to the 6th row of blocks. I was tired so headed home! Hopefully finishing this twin top next week.

Once rested I went back to finishing my mini quilt for my angel wall hanging. Tomorrow I'll sandwich it with flannel instead of batting, add the backing and quilt it before binding it. It's 6.5 x 7.5" - WOW!!! By the time I finished the pinwhel blocks I very quickly changed my mind on white 4 patches and went with white whole blocks instead! I swear these little ones take as long to sew up as a lap or twin quilt!

Quilt Raffle Anyone???

Hi there! The Assiniboine Circle Quilters will not be having their previously held quilt shows as the major fundraiser. Since this is the Club's 30th Anniversary they decided on this raffle (two lovely quilts as prizes) to help provide fundraising for various club expenses. Tickets and monies need to be in on Nov 29th as the draw is Dec 13th, 2025. Much appreciated. 

If you are interested in buying a $2 ticket(s) from me, please email, call or text me and with your payment I'll send you a picture of your ticket filled out. Thank you so much. 

Catchup. - Nov 1st-9th

Nov 1st

 Nov 2nd

After numerous Dr appointments over the past three years, about my sporadic pain and an xray pointing to a couple compressed vertebrae, sciatic and lots of arthritis, was basically told to find nonsurgical solutions. Prior to my vacation I was referred to a sports Dr and hopefully a cortisone shot, but not in time to relieve painful movements. Finally July 30th I had a consultation and was told no shot in the hip as the pain stems from my lower back and requested an MRI. On Thursday I had a call from Boundary Trails for a Sunday 2pm MRI.  

I pray some kind of solution results from this. Yes I've done physio and it helps but it's not a fix and I don't care to rely on meds and rubs daily. Some days I'm not even sewing!!!

Nov 4th

Oooohhhhh I'd like to make this on a smaller scale though!!!

Nov 7th

DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!!! 😪

It's been FIVE days without hot water!!! There better be some when I get home from my Craft Sale so I can soak these sore old bones!!!!

We're set up! Ready to welcome whomever ventures to visit this Craft Sale.

Yeah after 5 days we now have HOT water! BUT watch it as it's steaming HOT - ridiculous. I feel bad for those with children as it scalding hot.

Nov 9th

Good afternoon! I thought I'd post what I've remaining from the good response at our craft sale yesterday. Maybe someone nearby would like a homemade gift?

Playing cards holders

Hexagon pincushions, wool stuffed

Folded Heart Needlecases and

two thread catchers

Table toppers

Table runners

Table runner or could be used as a bed runner at the foot of your bed.