Circles Rule!

It has been super busy here lately, and will get much worse over the next week! I am going to be a Grandma sometime in the next 2 weeks!!!!! Happy Dance!!!! My daughter is due the 21st and I will be flying out to be with her. I'm sure you will all be sad for me when I tell you she lives in Athens, Greece. I know, I know, you have to do what you have to do. If it means I have to spend 3 weeks in Greece that is the sacrifice I will have to make. The quilt top you see is a gift for her Mom and Dad In Laws. I am quilting that tomorrow. Now I need to make a baby quilt by next Wednesday too. It's not totally my fault that the baby quilt isn't made yet. You see, dear daughter could not decide on what colors she wanted. As an excited grandma I bought several cute panels, border prints, cutesy prints etc. And what has she decided that she wants..................modern in grey, white and a touch of yellow.  I guess I will be making many colorful primary baby quilts in the future. The new fabric purchases for the baby quilt are these.

 And now for some Kitty pictures. Here is Honey. Turns out she had been eating my feral cat's food for a couple of weeks. We caught her and found out she was 12 and originally from one of the shelters. We decided to foster her for them as no owners could be found. She was skinny at just over 6lbs and had many abscessed teeth. A total of 17 teeth were removed. She was in so much pain that even under general anesthesia her jaw was chattering and they had to give her needles on top of it. Here she is 2 lbs heavier, happy and showing how well she matches our rug.

Camouflage Cat! perfect match

Several weeks around such a gentle creature who never hissed or scratched even though she was in tremendous pain and the result was inevitable. WE ARE A FOSTER FAIL!Welcome home Honey!

Happy Stitching
corina

Who's Taken Over my Sewing Room??

BORDERS?

Bali top is finished-maybe. Should I add borders? I'm tempted to just bind it with black. I don't know if it really needs borders.

Which Way is UP? Blues on top?

Or Reds on top?

 I am cutting out more rectangles today. I need to make this quilt again - for me! I'm linking up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced and WIP Wednesday at the Needle and Thread Network. Check out what everyone else is working on!

Happy Stitching
corina

Bali Stripping

Too hot to be outside so am in the sewing room. I'm busy making a donation quilt for the guild as part of a strip exchange challenge. Hope to get the top finished this week.

I'm linking up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced and WIP Wednesday at the Needle and Thread Network. Check out what everyone else is working on!

Happy Stitching
corina

FALLING LEAVES IN SUMMER???

The raffle quilt for the Assiniboine Circle Quilter's quilt show is off my design wall and at the longarmer's to be quilted. Thousands of squares were cut out of fabrics donated by our guild's members. Each member received a kit to make a 10" maple leaf block, an angel appliqued the stems down, then my friend and I had a blast arranging them on my design wall (along with an additional 1500 or so 2 1/2" squares). I think everyone is pleased with the result.

Now that my design wall is free again I can start quilting for myself. I just don't know what to do first!!

Happy Stitching
corina

ps the show is on Sunday, September 22 2013 from 11 to 4:30. It is held at the St. Francois Xavier Community Club, which is about 15 minutes west of Winnipeg, Manitoba

pss forgot to mention the border design we used was from https://carterquilter.wordpress.com. She has lots of free patterns. 

Violin?

Somehow I got a little sidetracked. In the middle of a ton of quilting projects I switched direction and started taking violin lessons. I've never been drawn to the violin, am not musical and the only instrument I have ever played was a short stint with the accordion at age 12. I started playing that because the "c" note had a rhinestone embedded in it. A very good reason don't you think?

Maybe this happened because I'm so deliriously happy that I am going to be a Grandma sometime around Halloween!!!! There will be many baby quilts in the near future you can be sure! For now though, I'm going to torment my dogs with some awful screeching on the violin (I feel so very talented when all 3 start howling the moment I pick it up!).

Happy Stitching
corina