I told you I was making another set

I had to have a set for fall! Look how easy these are.

Sew together your WOF strips.

Lay on your 60 degree triangle ruler.

Cut.

Sew and voilà.

Easy Peasy Stripy Stripey Placemats by Sew So Easy.

What happened to summer?

What happened to June and July? I just don’t know where the time goes, how could we be into August already…just a month and a bit left of summer.

This little garden angel was a project I completed a few years back. I had it originally hanging in my sewing room and thought I should have her on display for the summer so I attached her to our front door wreath so everyone could enjoy her. Only a short time left before she’ll be put into hibernation for the winter months. Brrrrr! makes me cold just thinking about it.

Happily ever after starts here

With an outdoor BBQ engagement party of course. We just hosted Dear eldest daughter's engagement party. What fun and what a celebration. Dear Hubby put the wood together for this sign, we saw it on Pinterest of course, and I painted the lettering.

It was very hot that day, with major humidity so we needed lots of umbrellas to provide as much shade as possible.

Here are the backyard pics before the event started.  Dear fiancé Kyle strung all the lanterns and helped set up all the tables and chairs. What a trooper, bless his heart.

Who thinks of this stuff

Whoever they are, they are genius. These are the most fun and simple placemats ever. I’m totally hooked. I want to make a set for everyone…just kidding.

The secret is the innards….not a batting, not an interfacing but a fusible stiff fabric that really holds it’s shape and did I mention it's fusible. The placemats go together like a charm using a 60 degree triangle ruler.

The pattern is called Stripy Stripey Placemats by Sew So Easy and the innards are called Craft-Tex Placemats by Bosal Foam and Fiber.

It will be a class offered at indred Spirits Quilt Co. in September.

Gotta go…making another set!

A third of the way complete

Wow, that was a bit of a haul. Six blocks down and 12 more to go. I hope I keep up, cause that would be painful if I didn’t. This is Fat Cat’s free BOM called Whoo Knows. I fell in love with the pattern the minute I saw it on her blog.  I am totally in love with this quilt so far and this probably is my favourite quilt ever. She gives the pattern for turned under applique method but of course I’m lazy and raw edge was the best avenue for me.
Hoot, Hoot, Hoot Hooray!

Dippet

Another block finished from Fat Cat’s BOM called Whoo Knows. I hate to fall behind, as it is so hard to catch up.

Dippet, July’s block  is as cute as all the other months and I just love how these are turning out.  It is a lengthily BOM, I think 18 months in all. I just need to focus and get each month completed on time.

Fields of Gold

Last weekend Dear Hubby and I ventured off to St Jacobs….we haven’t been there in years. On the way, while on Highway 6 just north of Hamilton, I caught a glimpse of  something brilliant yellow out of the corner of my eye. As we drove on, the yellow grew more intense until all you could see were  fields upon fields of gold. What was it I thought.  Sunflowers everywhere. Oh Happy Day!  I’d never seen that before…just one more thing that brought a smile to my face!.

Dresden Beauty

 I really love Marnie's Dresden Plate Quilt. It turned out amazing. Marnie took my Dresden Plate quilt class a while back, but I hadn't seen the finished product. This pattern is an original design that I created for the class called Black Magic Dresden.
It turned out just gorgeous and Liz at Kindred Spirits Quilt Co.
longarmed it for her.
Wow, you done good Marnie. Love it!

Tractor Love

This is the engagement cake I made for Dear eldest daughter’s engagement party. 

Although I got off the a rough start with the cake thanks to Dear Hubby’s stundness inquisitive nature , all things turned out ok.

I managed to get two little mini tractors for the cake top and a cute little LOVE cake topper to finish the cake off beautifully.

Whoo Knows Grizel

Finally caught up on my Fat Cat free BOM called Whoo Knows. This is block 5 of 18 blocks that make up a wonderful quilt designed by Fat Cat patterns. They just get sweeter every month.

I have been using my stash to make the blocks, which is awesome, as it’ll be good to make good use of some.  Sindy Rodenmayer of Fat Cat Designs is absolutely amazing to design this pattern and share it with other quilters. 

A little frosty in July

Aspen Frost that is, from Moda. I picked up a few pieces today from Kindred Spirits Quilt Co. to get ready for a fabulous class I’m teaching in September. It will be a really fun class that will get students ready for the Christmas season well ahead of time. I know that when everyone sees this class, they will be making the pattern up in droves for Christmas gifts.

I’ll keep you posted with new pics of the project…..

Nom Nom

Chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches dipped in Skor bits …..NOM NOM.

I made these for Dear eldest daughter’s engagement party for dessert.

They were the biggest hit!  It was a really hot day and these little goodies were a refreshing treat to cool off with.

All wrapped up with striped wax paper, baking twine and cute stickers. Well worth the work.

Moose Tracks

I just love these Morley Moose's done in batiks…..absolutely awesome.

We have 5 students in the class at Kindred Spirits Quilt Co. Angie and Diane have been hard at work to complete their works of art. Diane even added a cool burgundy PT cruiser on hers for her sister. Diane told us the story of her sister who lives up north in a log cabin and was continually followed home by a moose when she drove her red PT cruiser. The moose never troubled her, just ran along side the car. This quilt is for her sister. What a wonderful idea and gift.

Lesley is putting the finishing touches on hers and is already thinking about her next quilt. Alma and Wendy are still appliqueing body parts and their pieces should be on display shortly.

“Hey Hun, What’s in the oven”

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Red Velvet cakes for dear eldest daughter’s engagement party….”Don’t touch the --------stove!”…….too late.  Dear hubby opens the stove to see what’s cooking as he wants to warm up his chicken wings and in one fowl swoop of the door opening, my red velvet , almost risen, perfect creation cakes fell are now 1 inch high flat chocolate pancakes!_)*_*)@_*$@+%*!_*%+!*%+*

Lord, I have to have the patience of Job…..

I had to start all over again from scratch and re create the creations. The pancake cake in the top left corner is the ( Dear Hubby,  I’ll just open the oven door to see what’s cooking cake) and the other 2 in the pans are the redo’s from this fiasco!

And people look at me strangely when I mention putting a pillow over his face at night and holding it down.

Sweet Treat Tractors

Dear eldest daughter’s fiancé (god I love that word), is a tractor lover, and part time farmer.  His obsession goes really deep. So deep in fact that their engagement pictures included them on his tractor.

He must really love our daughter as he has already let her drive it and he never lets anyone touch his tractor.

For their engagement party I made this cute chocolate treat tractors as a fun twist to his obsession. I was amazed that they actually had such things. I ordered the chocolate moulds and they were quite simple to make with melted chocolate and a little patience.

All wrapped up and ready to go!

Ton of Fun

My sister in law celebrated her 60th birthday last week at a wonderful outdoor party held at my niece’s. We had a ton of fun, and that’s about what this card weighed once it was finished. The card was a great source of laughs and conversation.

Sixty little pebble stones were glued to cardstock then the card assembled with the saying “60 rocks” inside. It took forever for the glue to dry, almost a full week.

At the party, my brother in  law says…”hey, there is only 59”….

I was tempted to go and count them all again, but I know there was 60 there. You count them, make sure!

Buckets of fun

Dear eldest daughter’s engagement party is a themed red and white picnic extravaganza. Actually it’s just a backyard BBQ, but I’ll run with it. I created these cute little sand pail centerpieces for the tables. I had the little rose bouquets left over from our youngest daughter’s wedding and they came in quite useful.

A little greenery, red cherries, a glue gun and dollar store buckets …..priceless…for everything else, there’s MasterCard.

Jacket Junkies

Talk about ladies on  a mission. You should have seen the ladies from my jacket class sew up their creations. There was a great deal of work in these jackets…fittings, strips, log cabins and more log cabins. I was amazed when a few of the ladies came to the last class with the jacket pretty much completed.

They look amazing….and so many choices…batiks, black and white and even Wizard of Oz.

The jackets all fit really well as the pattern has you fit a sweatshirt to your body first, then build the jacket from the sweatshirt pieces. A great technique that ensures you’ll have a jacket that is made for you.

Lot’s of work, but well worth the effort.