There is a first time for everything and is old is now new again for us. I am dragging out my containers of Christmas decorations that have been stacked under the stairs for 10 years and before that, were in the attic at the farmhouse for about 2 or 3 years. I did open a few last season when we were home for 10 days over Christmas, just make the house a bit festive. However, last year, I did decorate in Mesa, Arizona and so we had our normal festive atmosphere there.
So, Christmas season begins and while we have enduring weeks of never ending rain, we have had some brilliant days where the courts were dry enough to get out on them and we now have a great forecast for this week, beginning tomorrow.
This has been a typical day for us and we are determined to walk daily if we can't play tennis. So, we walk by the courts. UGH. One day when it was dry enough for us to use, a city worker showed up so we had a delay while he blew the leaves off the court.
In the quilting world, I did manage to get my steps completed for the Meadowland mystery for November. All done and ready for the next step this Thursday.
I added a stencil to my wall. I found this while cleaning up and thought that it was rather perfect to see daily. My white board is full and have had a good challenge for November. It is looking much better, 3 weeks later!
This quilt got finished. These are bento blocks that I originally made for a quilt of Valour but, there was a need for a quilt for a Silver Mother in our community. That means that she lost her son while he was serving in the Canadian Armed Forces. So, while not a QOV, it is similar and went to someone who really needed a quilted hug.
This was a quilt made from a 'bag' of fabrics picked up at the Fraser Valley Modern guild morning where we had drop offs and things to grab from community quilts. Ready for quilting. I was not really happy with the outcome but, once quilted, it will add some brightness to someone who needs a hug.
And a hiking day where I looked up at the steep hill ahead of me and I just climbed up a good distance already!
This quilt was started during our September retreat with the Wednesday Divas. It was a jelly roll of assorted colours and fabrics that seemed totally unrelated to each other so I started stitching and makes half square triangles. It is now quilted and bound.
These are the leftovers from the strip sets made for the quilt above. I used a white fabric for the half square triangles so interesting to see the difference?
The evening of the full moon... clear enough for us to see it. A lovely break from rain.
Lights are up on our patio and the sky to the west looked promising.
Two quilts made for the modern guild that are ready for quilting and binding.
This is the quilt made from the charm packs I had on hand. The November challenge for Heartstrings was using charm packs. This will be a quilt of Valour and on the list for December.
A close up of the blocks all made using Northcott O Canada fabrics.
My Canada 52 weeks blocks are done... all put together and ready for quilting and binding... another December project.
There was a call from one of our Wednesday quilt group that the local native band needs some baby quilts so I decided to pull out some fat quarters and make 3 quilts.
And found these Christmas strips that I will be great for some projects.
So, a few quilt tops ready for quilting and binding starting tomorrow.
And containers of Christmas decorations waiting to be opened and gone through. It has been a long time since I touched these and am looking forward to a lot of memories that will come bubbling up.
Pile of quilts that are quilted and on the table ready for binding. The bindings are all made and one a day will get them done quickly.
November 2020
1.
Quilt 2 preemies
2.
Quilt Christmas tumblers UFO
3.
Quilt Christmas framed fat quarters
cookie UFO
4.
Quilt child’s white/leftover hsts
5.
Quilt framed jolly bars UFO
6.
Quilt Cdn squares 3 yd quilt
7.
Quilt Twizzle UFO needs binding
8.
Quilt Ohio Star UFO Needs binding
9.
Quilt gray/bright jelly roll hst
10.
Quilt hourglass jelly roll UFO
11.
Quilt Stepping stones needs binding
12.
Quilt fat quarters framed Heartstrings
Jan
13.
Cdn Happy Blocks
14.
Solstice (UFO)
15.
Aunt Gracie’s charms (UFO)
16.
Mors bags: food
themes
17.
10 min tablerunner (UFO)
18.
Row by Row 2016 moose scenic (UFO)
19.
Hot pads – jelly roll/rope
20.
Mystery step 3 Meadowland
21.
FVMQG: Make #1 Nov made 2
22.
FVMQG: Make #2 Nov
23.
Diamond tote bag
24.
Tshirt quilt
25.
Start an embroidery project
26.
Start a knitting project
27.
Heartstrings charm quilt split 9 patch QOV
28.
Stolo Baby 1 needs binding
29.
Stolo Baby 2
needs binding
30.
Stolo Baby 3 needs binding
31.
Bento box quilt for silver star mum UFO
Wow, so many beautiful projects, you're a busy lady :)
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