Category Archives: Quilting

Farmhouse

Farmhouse (by Coach House Designs)

I purchased this pattern at the CQA show in Vancouver in 2018. I remember struggling to find the fabrics shown on the pattern; they came from various shops, mostly in the US. In late fall of 2019 I started sewing and completed the first two rows of small stars on a quilting retreat with Stacia and Deloise. A journal entry from August of 2020 mentions the trouble I was having with the appliqué on the dresses. By March of 2022 the top was done.

The project showed up on my UFO list for 2023, saying it was ready for quilting. As with many of my UFO projects it never got done. I turn over my UFO list in January every year so Farmhouse showed up again in my list for this year.

This June its number was drawn and I started quilting. It took all of June as well as July to get it finished. And even when I thought I was finished I realized I needed to add a sleeve as I hope the quilt will be accepted into the Guild’s 2025 quilt show.

Happy Birthday Christy

July 5, 2024

Pattern from The Polka Dot Chair

July’s mug rug involved hexagons which I love doing. It went together quickly and it reinforced how much I enjoy a hand stitching project.

It is much larger than any of the other mug rugs I have made but it will allow room for a cup of tea and one of Christy’s favourite doughnuts from Crumbl.

Happy Birthday Elizabeth

July 2, 2024

On our trip to Calgary for Asher’s graduation, Elizabeth asked for microwave bowls in a fabric that I used for someone else’s birthday card – the pink daisies obviously. Since her birthday was coming up I decided to make the bowls her “card”.

My original plan was to use the daisy fabric for the outside of the bowl and the sunflower fabric for the inside but the two really didn’t go together so I made one bowl from each fabric. The first set of bowls I made were quite small so I made two more larger ones.

I was in a rush to get the parcel in the mail so I didn’t get a photo of the full sets but Elizabeth sent me a picture.

Tuffet

I purchased the pattern and the tuffet kit in 2018 when Stacia, Deloise and I went to the Quilt Canada convention in Vancouver.

I started it in 2022 on a sewing trip to Panorama with Stacia and Deloise. Along the way they helped me pick out the fabric.

It wasn’t until this year that I finally put the whole thing together. I always intended it to go with Virginia on Texada and it fits in perfectly.