Alice taught me this one - I had to have 120 2 1/2″ squares and put them in a paper bag. Then I had to take them out one by one and lay them on an iron-on interfacing grid. I was not allowed to look and at the end I was only allowed to change 5 squares if they looked really bad. So much for my obsessive compulsive behaviour!

After ironing them on I sewed up and down the edges… use your imagination, I am not good at explaining these things! Put borders on, quilted it, and look:

All done! Now what to do with it? As you can see, it is small, so maybe a doll’s quilt?

I am particularly proud of my quilting :)! It was all done freestyle on my beautiful Bernie Bernina. I did a loop in each square in the middle, then hearts on the borders and flowers in the squares. I am learning, slowly, slowly!!!

It was snowing yesterday! It didn’t stay around long, but it was definitely snow! Of course all the photos I took didn’t give it justice, I was very disappointed. It looked pretty coming down in the sky, until it melted when it hit the ground!

(Yes, I am still working on hubby to get him to fix the links!)

At least you can see that it “looks” cold!!! I tried to get the kids to stand there long enough for a whole lot of snowflakes to stick on their clothes, but they looked so cold that I quickly snapped the picture and let them run around

More snow is forecasted, so we will see. There were heaps of accidents on the road this morning, around the area where we used to live, dh says. No one is used to having ice and snow on the road and refuse to slow down. Reminds me of someplace we used to live where it rains now and then and people don’t slow down….. now, where could that be?!

As long as we are warm and dry in the house, it is lovely to look outside and see snowflakes falling down. Makes me want to play Christmas music and sew stockings

Elizabeth loved the fabrics for the Purple Heart and wanted to make a quilt for herself out of them. I went and found an easy pattern online which was a combination of fence rail and a feature square. Elizabeth was 9 at the time and her attention span lasted through us cutting the strips so of course I finished it for her.

It took me ages to get around to quilting it and I started one of the same pattern for Daniel around the same time. I managed to do loops on the purple quilt, which turned out ok. Daniel’s, however, was done almost perfectly by Nora on her wonderful quilting machine!

Nora finished it for me over a year after I started it Daniel was very pleased to finally get it because the others already had theirs.

The above quilts I did on my own, not in class. I wanted to have a bit more on the go than what we were currently working on. And what we were working on at the time was our first paper pieced project…… a stained glass quilt. Oh, it was a nightmare! Not just the fact that our teacher gave us one lesson and then had to leave for the States for a while, but I think there was something wrong with the pattern! Still, it was the best thing that we could have done, because now all paper piecing is easy Thanks Evelyn !

Here it is, finished:

Matt was very pleased with it, so that is the main thing! LOL!

I guess we must have all done pretty well with our Fence Rails, because the next project Evelyn taught us was a heart colorwash! It was a tad harder, but just gorgeous! I, of course, chose blue.

Mum and Dad happened to be visiting for a few weeks and I dragged Mum along to class. She chose red colors, not her usual color scheme, but matching the house they were renting in Jordan at the time. Mum can sew well, but doesn’t do it as a hobby She prefers to knit and cross stitch. Anyhow, she came along to a few lessons and made a start. Guess who finished it?????

Dad!!!! He did a great job as well!

Here is my blue heart:

Alice made a purple one and I got the same fabric as she had and made one as well, for Elizabeth:

I was on a roll with putting photos up here when I discovered that when you clicked on the photo, it went to an error page instead of showing a close up…. so that dampened my enthusiasm a bit and I didn’t get back here until now. Of course my error problem has not magically disappeared I will have to wait for my computer whiz dh to fix it for me!

In the meantime I have been quilting. I have almost finished a little scrap quilt Alice taught me to make with an easy technique. I also put borders on my tesselating pinwheels and quilted it - yay! Now to put the binding on and take a photo!

I spent a few days at Alice’s and we sewed till we dropped while the kids were soooo good doing their schoolwork. We only had to help with a few of their problems. They managed to do most of it on their own and then played nicely afterwards. I worked on one of my friendship quilts as well, so I feel like I have had my sewing fix for the month, week.

I will try to get the links for the photos fixed sooooon! Have a great weekend everyone!