Still later that same year...

It has been a hectic few weeks.  I flew out to British Columbia,  to visit my Mom, for a couple of weeks.  Back at home,  friends visit for a couple of days, spring sprung and  hours are whizzing by as our family gets closer to dis-assembly.  Disassembly...is the only word I can find that fits.  Youngest son has landed a job in Calgary, He's squeezing in a three week trip to  Europe before his job starts in early July. Middle son has a job in Sweden, beginning in August.  He is also doing his usual summer job for an outdoor camp,  as a tripper so he has a canoe trip in July. Everything happens quickly once the parts are available, so to speak.

On another note, I didn't spend much time with Mom. Okay, I am not the only one who felt odd about this but I was 'shipped in' to look after the dog and  the 'place'.
It would have been long and boring couple of weeks, excepted I had friend 'ship in,' nothing better then a best friend to have fun  (VBG)

And that's the design wall at Mom's.  I purchased a lovely batik block of the month kit, here are all the blocks.  Well what is a gal to do when the dog gets up at 5 am (yes! Andrew, 5 comes in an AM) goes for a walk around the 'place' and by the time he gets back I am wide awake and the coffee is almost ready.  So I pieced every morning for several hours.  I completed the components of the quilt up to the borders, which are also pieced.  The BOM group I joined to do this project with,  were all amazed as this is month #1.  Yeah well...it may be  very much like the tortoise and the hare.


Back at it, I finished a T-shirt quilt, the shirts are from family gatherings at a cottage that featured an annual Pig Roast. I could do nothing more than just 'put it together'.  The backing was a polyester and the border was a decorator cotton, and the batting was puffy and fragile.  But there you have it.

Happy Wednesday folks!
gudrun

$10 Quilt Club

A local quilt shop runs a $10 Quilt Club.

For $10, you contract to come to the

shop, at a designated time, to pick up a

kit (colour choices made ahead of time) to be completed

by the next meeting. There you get the next kit, 

having arrived with your completed

block from the previous time. If you miss, 

either by not doing your homework or not 

making a meeting, you pay $10., to keep

going with the kits. (You do this every time you blow it :))

Here's pictures of a recent one, done by a newbie quilter.

She's got a good handle on the process. She liked what

I did, and I did it within her budget.

I tried the smaller picture

format. I don't care for it. Back to the usual, next.

Happy Tuesday

gudrun