Little Red House By The Sea

We are back home in the little red house by the sea. That also means back to other projects,  so the Canada Day Quilt has had to share my time!  But finally both tops are together! I got them out on the clothesline for a photo, but as you can see one of the pins came off quickly in the wind. After I took the quilts off the line I hung out a line of laundry. Hopefully it will stay on better than the quilt! Putting the tops together was pretty easy. I made my sashing in red and white/cream rather than just cream and white like my leaf blocks so that the sashing would show up better. The only issue is the orientation of the red and white/cream is opposite for vertical and horizontal.  So if you sew the strips with the bottom red on the right for the horizontal,  the bottom red will be on the left for the vertical.  I was sewing the strips on while making others as my leader/ender, so  thankfully I only had to rip out one set when I real...

It has taken me a while to get to this point! I've been spending a lot of time with my granddaughters, and the weather has been so nice that instead of getting in a bit of sewing early morning and late afternoon,  I've been heading out for a walk.  But today it's snowing again :(. We're not supposed to get very much, but ...yuck! I started putting the quadrants together yesterday.  When I took the first one off the machine and looked I shook my head and asked myself if I had pinned with my eyes closed! After a few minutes with Jack the ripper I started over with a new approach.  I know I am more pleased with my seams and points if my seams nest, and they always nest best with the bottom seam pointing toward the needle.  A lot of the seams in the maple leaves just weren't playing nice when I started to put them together, so it was time to start moving seams the other way.  Of course some seams won't move because they are already sewn down under a...

Hello from snowy St. John's, NL. Well March is definitely coming in like a lion...two snow storms in three days. As long as it goes out like the promised lamb I'm ok! There was an exciting development in my family this week. Our second granddaughter was born! We are in complete one household lock down here right now, but we had to care for granddaughter #1 during the days just before the birth and over the hospital stay, so we had to double bubble.  This is a blessing because it allows me to continue to help my daughter, and therefore get to have baby snuggles. Probably not today though! Even though our son-in-law is an essential worker,  he likely won't be working today,  which gives me a snow/sew day. I had finished the string pieced blocks,  so the next step was cutting some whites,  creams,  and a few reds for stem pieces.  If it looks like a lot of pieces,  don't panic! I'm actually making 2 quilts at one time. The nex...