Well the Rouge Valley Quilt show is over & it was a Great Success! I LUVED the quilts, jackets, & craft market. There were a few screams of elation when the Silent Auction was over.
Everyone seemed to Luv the show. I was pooped out from being a "Tea room server" for 1/2 a day....but it was FUN!

This is my "Precious Eleven" quilt, which was entered in the "Canada Quilt Association" show in the spring of 2011. I also entered this wallhanging quilt in the RVQG show this weekend.

The Hosta leaves have Pipe cleaner inside, so the leaves are moveable. A small snake is woven thru the bottom leaves with only a glimpse peeking thru. The tiny flowers are 3 dimensional & have tiny colored beads inside. The Dragon flies are also 3D with Beads as their bodies & the wings are painted with an Opague fabric paint. I have a tiny TREE Frog on the tree limb, & a family of Lady bugs walking on the log.

It is from a picture I took of "11" She was trying to Hatch golf balls & the only way I could get her to stop was to remove her from the nest. Eleven saw "Precious" sitting on a log.....so Eleven pushed Precious OFF & flapped her wings in triump. My camera caught the action & it inspired my quilt....footnote of my story of "11" follows, so if you are bored with my Tale, STOP Reading now - IF YOU CAN....ha ha ha ha

((Eleven was the 11th egg in the nest. The other 10 had hatched & mama kept pushing the last egg out of the nest. I saw a dime size hole with a tiny beak peeking thru the hole, & it was constantly quacking. I read in my duck book to leave the egg alone....so for 2 days I put the egg back in the nest, & mama would kick it out again. Finally I couldn't stand the poor duckling being trapped anymore. I brought the egg into the house, & peeled a dime size piece of hard shell off the egg. I sat & watched in Wonder as "11" fought her way out of the shell. It took a few hours to free herself & she was fully fluffed out about 15 minutes after that. I kissed the cute Fuzzy duckling a few times while she quacked for mama. In the middle of the nite, I let "11" join her family. She grew up to care for 2 adopted ducklings "12" & "13" She passed away in 2010. She was a special mouse hunting Muscovy Duck!

2 Quilts Entered @ RVQG - yippeeee

Whew - I am SEW happy to have completed my "Prairie Poultry" quilt for the Rouge Valley Quilt Show on Oct 15th 2011.

I Luved the block pattern & decided to make a giant Prairie Point rooster for the centre. While the blocks were in pieces I flew off to Calgary to see my niece. I Should have completed the quilt Before going anywhere, but that would have been too easy.

I had figured out I could piece, & machine quilt my Prairie Poultry within 2 wks but had not figured getting busy @ work. I noticed some of the blocks had stretched a bit wider in places & i Knew I should take the blocks apart....but I didn't have the time. I will Always wish I had spent more time re-aligning the blocks....such a newbie mistake for a non-newbie - sigh.

To finalize my quilt drama, I did Not have any extra needles. Thanksgiving long weekend I broke my Last decent needle & had to use a 80/12....which continued to shred the thread & skip stitches. I practiced my cuss words that weekend. I finally changed to a heavier Gutterman thread but ran out of 3 different colors...leaving my quilt top Multi-colored, ha ha ha

I was ELATED to hand the quilt in & to get it the heck out of my sight!

Placemats for "Meals on Wheels" XMAS dinner

Well it has been a Busy month & quite successful. It's been over 15 years that I've been doing Placemats for "Meals on Wheels" recipients. Many of the people live alone & can't get around much. They Luv getting their Holiday Dinner ontop of a Quilted Placemat!

Of course I can only take credit for making a dozen or so, placemats. It is a Huge donation of mats from other quilters from the ROUGE VALLEY QUILT GUILD. There is a smaller quilt group within our Guild, called the "HELPING HANDS". They meet @ "The ART of Fabric" courtesy of the owner Elizabeth Dillinger. The ladies work their buns off, & produce a large portion of the quilted placemats.

Our #1 Placemat maker is Donna Dunbar - this year she donated almost 40 placemats ( last year was 60+ - Wow)

This year we had a "PLACEMAT PARTY" @ 43 Division. It was a good turnout, with over a dozen ladies. We worked for 4 1/2 hours & made a wopping 61 placemats. ( we were given UFO blocks which made awesome looking mats, without all the work.....because someone Else had done the work - LOL)

The final count was 365 placemats. 200 went to the Pickering Meals on Wheels, while the remainder went to the Scarborough Meals on Wheels.

I can't help but be touched by the generosity of all those involved...but it shows you the True meaning of the Holidays.

The binding is Finally done on my Aunt Anne's Buddy Blanket.....the last peice of the puzzle is the label. I hope to Finish this quilt and drop it off to her before her 75th birthday, mid August.
Here is my "Surprised" Aunt Anne with her quilt celebrating 75 years of kindness!
The picture in the center is her holding me when I was a baby!




Tomorrow going to the Feed store and meeting up with Eleanor Pastic.
We'll talk Quilts and have a bargain breakfast ($4)
We are Both anxious to start a new project and be inspired on even More ARTSY quilts....wish we lived closer. Even though we are only 1 hour away, it uses up the entire day.
When we lived in Toronto, we'd get together for an afternoon and quilt.
It took 10 minutes to get to Eleanor's place.
Still it will be Wonderful to meet for lunch and talk QUILTS!
I'm Missing our weekly quilt fests Big time!

quilting

All 14 Hearts with the nieces & nephews names have been sewn on my Aunt Anne's quilt! All I need to do now, is the Binding & a Label. I hope to have this done by next wk, but of course the renos are cutting into my quilting time. I LUV that I didn't have to buy any fabric for this quilt. They are not my colors, but match my Aunt's top in a recent photograph - let's hope it is her Favorite shirt!

Renovations

I Can't wait.....the painting is done in the Sunroom, & we picked up the Pine flooring today. Tomorrow will lay the floor, then we need to sand & stain, & then put 4 coats of Urethane....by the end of next wk we will be able to move the furniture in & finally enjoy the renovated room. Yippeeee

Decided to post a pic of my First quilt made for AWESOME AUSTIN.
 He is my niece's son and a Special little man. All the blocks were different.
I was trying to make each of them, a subject he enjoyed.
 I believe this was for his 5th Birthday.
They use their quilts for cuddling into when they are watching Movies on the weekend.
 Nice when someone actually USES the quilt!



This is the Xmas wall hanging I made for AWESOME AUSTIN.
The white fabric has a sparkle to it, which reminds me of snowflakes.