Computer woes

We after my last post I was going to be so good and try to post more often but before I got the change my computer died. We saved it with a new hard drive but taking some time to get it back up to normal and I lost some photos. Was going to put the ones still on my camera back on only to find the card reader isn't working. DH said he would look at it today. Hopefully back up to speed soon.

Floss

HP Quilt Show

Well I have been a bad blogger, the Heritage Park quilt show was held the last weekend in May and I have been meaning to share a few photo ever since. The weather did not hold out, but all the indoor area were great so still a great show to visit. On the bright side with only quilter at the part the line ups were a lot shorter than other years. I put three small quilts in, I think I have posted all of these quilts before but will share anyway.I am so please with my bunny quilt, I knew that I wanted to put it in, you can see from the photo this was displayed in on of the historic homes child's bedroom.

One of the organizer belong to the guild I go to and she had asked for a few smaller quilts to be enter so I also enter the green table topper and the wall hanging made from left overs.

Hopefully I will be better at blogging.

Floss

Cat Pictures

Haven't really done much quilting since I have been back from retreat so thought I would share a couple of recent cat photos.
Here is Taz is showing us how to relax and Fritz thinks that we got her a new chair.

Not sure when I will get back to doing some quilting, its has started to get nice here and will need to spend some time tiding up the back yard, and the front yard could do with a little bit of gardening too. Want to enjoy as much of the nice weather as I can, our summer here are so short.
Floss

More Retreat

Had a spring snow storm here this week, my back is still hurting for all the snow I had to shovel just to get to my car, and here we are a couple of days later and most of the snow has melted.

As promised I was going to share what a couple of the other ladies were working on at retreat.
This is another version of the guild BOM project. I love how bright this is.

As a guild we have also done this Indian Summer quilt. Here is one top that was finished at retreat and one the was half completed. I love see how group project can turn out so different just by people fabric choices.

I also though I would share these jar block, I love how different they look than mine, and it's only really the background fabric that changed. We have shared allot of fabrics. It looked a lot nicer when they weren't on the funky couch.Lastly here are a couple of little extra I can home with. One of the ladies had little gift for all of us, and behind that is the yellow fabric that wanted to come home from the store with me. I have very little yellow fabric and I saw this and wanted to make a scrappy purple and yellow quilt. So another project on my to do list. But I did get one top done on this trip so think is OK to put one back on the list.

Retreat

This last weekend was retreat and it was a fun weekend. We rented a cottage near a lake and it was perfect for the small group. 9 of use had a great weekend. We are thinking of going back in the fall, but make need to find somewhere a bit larger if more people want to come.

I really enjoyed myself and even got a fair bit done. The retreat stared at lunch on Friday, but I didn't get there until closer to 3, but got to work right away.I knew that I would need a pillow for the chair and had one that just needed to be put together so that was the first thing I did.

After that I started on my purple square quilt, which I managed to finish the top for. I am so pleased with how this turned out. It was pretty straight forward and I was done by Saturday evening even with a shopping break in the afternoon.

I will share what I picked up shopping on the next post, except for some charm size square I picked up on Friday (I made a small detour on the way to retreat) and by Sunday morning I had turned them into this simple wall hanging. I think there is even enough left over for scrapping binding.

Not wanting to be done I moved onto some jar blocks for a table runner. I had been sharing fabric with one of the other girl and when she started on her block (which she got finished) I had to start on mine. I think they will be great.

I will share more of what the other girls were working on next post.

Cheers

Floss

Blog Break

Well it looks like I took an unintentional blog break. Shortly after my last post I come down with a bad stomach flu which had me down for about two weeks. Once I was better there was allot of catching up to do. This last weekend was LM baptism, so we had a house full of people, it was wonder to visit with every one, but it does not allow for time in the sewing room.

I did get a little bit done. I finished the last of the pinwheels for my flower quilt

Her are all the piece, all I have to do now is put them all together. I learnt that I should label the fabric when I buy it, all of the was keep together as a project, but had to rally think about which of these fabric went where. I think I have worked this out, guess I will know for sure one I put more of it together.

And here is the start to putting it all together, as you can see I still have a way to go. I did get a couple more border done after this photo was taken. I am upto the first row of pinwheels. Having most of the pieces made I think this will get large quite quickly.

This next weekend I an going to retreat. So I should have more guilty stuff next week.

Guild BOM

Well it took longer between post than I expected, but I still wanted to share with you the guild BOM block I finished at the mini retreat. I only made 6 of the blocks and will make this into a small quilt, I just wanted to feel like a part of this project. A couple of the ladies were working on their tops and its amazing to see how different they are.





I can't wait to see them all done, I just love how they are all turning out. I think mine may look a little sad next to the beautiful quilts the others are making.



I have managed to do a bit of sewing over the last two weeks, I pulled out an UFO that has been sitting for a couple of years and started working on the last batch of flower pin wheels. It feels nice to be working on a larger project as I have only worked on small projects for a very long time. OK this is only small pieces, but just knowing that its part of a much larger project.
Hopefully I won't take so long for my next post.
Floss.