Catchup - Aug 26th - Sept 18th

Sept 1st

This kinda is my story some days!  Gotta keep moving!!!

Thank you Margreet for posting this!!! 🥰

I totally agree AND everyone's tastes are not the same, thank goodness. So I do as I like and sometimes ask for someone's preference of my choices if undecided, not new ideas. 😘

Sept 3rd

It's been a long time I participated in a Fringe Tatters swap and with back/sciatic issues acting up again I just about didn't make it. So today my Autumn maple leaf bookmark with Split Rings (failed on the SCRM start - switched to rings on a chain) is in the mail on it's way to Australia. The pattern is by Debbie Arnold found on Etsy, but my own tail design. I used Lizbeth, #136 Autumn Spice, size 20. Hope the delivery is faster than my tardiness in tatting it?

Sept 4th

Today I picked Sylvia up and the flowers on her walkway are beautiful. Today I joined the St Vital quilting group that Sylvia has attended over the summer months. She finally finished off her UFO from 2009 and I added borders to my chevron wall hanging and the HSTs NICU coverlet today. The coverlet needs HSTs in a zig zag effect before repeating those borders again. This group is basically a work on your own projects amongst friends, so hopefully I'll start finishing some of my mega years of UFOs?

Sept 11th

I barely got up early enough to have breakfast, get ready and haul my sewing stuff out the door by 9:20 am. First off was an iced coffee for me, then picked up Sylvia (power failure since around 1am - surprised she was ready to go) before heading over to Meadowood for a day of quilting! Sylvia worked on various UFOs, 3 or 4 table runners quilted ready for binding. Me, I sewed up my previously cut pieces for male placemats for Meals on Wheels! After the first sewed up, I changed things a bit and like the 12x16" plans much better, not sure about the red side borders.

UPDATE: I removed the top n bottom black borders and changed to red! Yes much better!!! Ohhhhh and I sewed up 5 placemat tops tonight.

Sept 12th

Quilting, especially with family n friends seems to be my happy place lately!!!

This morning was tough but I shook it off to enjoy lunch with Norma, celebrating her one year anniversary on moving back to Winnipeg (actually the 14th) at the Lemon Tree Cafe. Lovely appetizers we shared but too full for a heavy dessert, will be back another day for tea and dessert. Norma had the lemon tea and I had the Chai latte iced and both were awesome!  

Then a couple errands before home for a short nap, I was zonked. Then I cut out a couple pieced backs for the 5 placemats from the other day plus three more fronts and backs for more ACQ placemats. I was trying to make a dent in my large bag of Canada fabrics but not so!!!!! But some are reduced to pieces, might just move them to the scraps bin!

Sept 13th

Ohhhh for sure Autumn is on the way!!! Hopefully a couple weeks to enjoy the turning colours and cooler weather before Winter descends on us!

WTH!!! I left the Crew about 8:30ish near Birds Hill East Gate and soon was in the middle of weekday rush hour traffic turning onto Garven Road, maybe from Pineridge Hollow. Then as nearing Prineridge Golf Course again inundated with more traffic merging from that road onto Garven, and I say not safely. It was bumper to bumper into the city with at least three cop cars with vehicles pulled over. SHEESH!!! Then Archibald n Provencher there's another cop car, huge truck n trailer with a badly smashed front end on a fair sized car. CRAZY NIGHT OUT I'm saying!!! Home safe and sound and no speeding!!!

Sept 18th

What a slow achy start today but it continued to improve to an oakie dokie day topped off with a hot fudge sundae! A nice quilty day working on my Meals on Wheels placemats and showing Janet N my wall hanging from her donated triangles. A lunch visit with Dianne U before returning to my sewing. Today Sylvia was busy and I had others help me with setup and take down. On the way home I was WOW'd by the colours along the Red River so detoured to BDI for some pictures, but the sun hid behind clouds so not as initially dramatic!

Sept 21st

So AWESOME hockey is back!!!

GO JETS GO!!!

Congratulations Blue Jays on the first step!!!

Now Good Luck towards the Championship!!!

Catchup - Aug 24th-25th

Aug 24th

These are photos Pat took and just shared with me. Love them!!! Thank you Pat!

Sylvia's Reubens - Yummy!!!

This is a toad that happened to like Angie's chairs too! About 3" size! I thought HUGE!!!

All relaxing!

Udon noodle shrimp veggie stir fry!

Look at all the newer buds!!!

Aug 25th

Today was interesting! See our elevator is out of service starting early today and possibly out all week for major maintenance. We were told Thursday and I was out of the city till Saturday so I thought it was too late to make changes to my Monday morning dental appointment, but changed my other ones for the following week. 

So I carefully walked down the six flights and drove the three blocks instead of walking. After the appointment I stopped at Tim's before heading home. So I slowly walked up one flight, then across that hallway to the opposite stairwell and continued till I reached the sixth floor. Needless to say my hip ached and I rested feet up afterwards. I'm definitely not going down unless absolutely necessary until it's fixed!!! Hopefully sooner than later!

Catchup - Aug 16th-23rd

Aug 16th

ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!! Us girls were on a ROAD TRIP once again to Perrault Falls for our annual Cliff Lake RV Camp for quilt retreat and relaxation. But first lunch at the Coop restaurant with sweet Adeline and her friend Wendy in Keewatin. 

We're all unpacked food wise and relaxing. OOOHHH and Angie it's all thumbs up on the rocking chairs!!! But I didn't ensure it was locked and when the cat jumped onto it well it snapped closed, cat got caught. Pat was laughing when leaning over to release the cat and her chair collapsed too. At least the cat left!!!

Aug 17th

We're in the summer kitchen BBQing chicken breasts, baked potatoes and green beans!!! Yummy!!!

Only picture of Edna and her one finished item so far.

All in a day's work!!!

I planned out the gifted 1 3/4" HSTs today! Probably a green border!

OMGG we three hadn't a chance as Pat's start was also the end!!! Cheeky girl!!!

And then this game we were down to THREE before I won!!!

Aug 18th

You know that song, "Moody Manitoba Morning", well that's what we woke to and stayed around all day! But finally it saw the loon not only hearing it often!!!

Aug 19th

Thank you Pat for smokies n pork n beans n Edna for pickles luncheon! 

Today I finished the HSTs Mini Chevrons quit top, will add a narrow purple then a green print wider borders. Gonna be my baby from gifted triangles. Next for me another 1.75" HSTs project from Pat's magazine, lots of ideas in there!!!

Edna is hand quilting a wall hanging, Pat's stitching the binding on her Eskimo ladies placemat, fabric from their Alaska trip and Sylvia was doing Suduko and also working on her maple leaf hot mats.

Finally it's partially sunny n clouds and warm so we are relaxing (I'm tatting) outside, while Sylvia is taking a nap! Oh this is the life!!! This fresh air is even zonking me out some, but I've lots of projects to do!!! Ohhhh and Angie, Pat found your rockers on Amazon but over $200 each, guess I'll have to check locally for one at least on sale! They all say very comfy!!! Thank you for lending them to us and I pray I bring them home undamaged!!!  Aaahhhhh Sylvia joined us now!!!

Dang it!!! I forgot to take pics of our lovely BBQd riblets, savory potato wedges and coleslaw supper! It was scrumptious!!!

Lots of seaguls.

Aug 20th

Ooopsie, forgot pictures but Sylvia, Edna and Pat are still works in progress. Here's my next project laid out and I've 3 rows sewn together. These are another set of 1.75" HSTs gifted to me, this will be a NICU coverlet when finished. 

We also went to the Whiskey Jack Restaurant for lunch, YUMMY!!!

Aug 21st

Well today after our trailer breakfast we went to Dryden and first stopped at Fabric on a Whim then downtown to the thrift stores before heading to lunch with Sylvia's friends. Then over to see Florence's new home before dropping into Tammy's Studio to say HI to the Dryden quilting ladies having a sewing day. Then gassing up and heading back to the trailer for a bacon n eggs supper and Dominoes games.  DUH ME, forgot pics!

Aug 22nd 

Today I tried to get Edna's machine working (stopped Wednesday) but even with her manual I didn't know enough to do so. So I let her use my machine to finish attaching her binding and now she's hand stitching it closed. Pat is working on a background for her hexie flowers she worked on earlier, her own design using up left over charms from two previously finished projects - way to go girl! Sylvia was working on a Christmas table runner but stopped to let Pat sew and switched to her Love Letters Sampler embroidery project for awhile. I'm sewing up my HSTs for a NICU coverlet.  

So far it's a partially sunny day and I'm going outside to tat later on. Reubens for lunch - honestly we're eating well and mostly healthy! BBQd pork tenderloin for supper!!!

Edna finished her binding, I'm sewed up my rows, Pat's sewing her background squares for her hexies and Sylvia finished sewing up some Christmas table runners, just need to quilt them. And here's the other day's finished hot mats!

Then Pat fixed up the pan hash browns and foil wrapped BBQd garlic carrots and I prepped the foil wrapped BBQd seasoned pork tenderloin for our supper! Yummy!!!  

Finished the evening packing away our sewing paraphernalia so tomorrow after breakfast we just have to pack up the left over food and return home!!! And more Dominoes!!!

Aug 23rd

On our way home we stopped into Kenora, I bought a lovely summer red dress from Reddens, we met Adeline for lunch at BP then walked down to Turtle Island Cloth & Craft Company to check out her shop - WOW!!!  

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This shop was bought over from Born to Quilt and expanded! Love the old hardware left intact from the Hardware Store it was in the past.

Arrived home 6ish and just unloaded the car in three trips! I'm pooped, feet up and making my grocery list for tomorrow's shopping. See Monday morning our one and only elevator will be out of service for major repairs. I've rescheduled two appointments for the week after but my dentist one Monday was too short notice so it'll be a very slow walk down then back up again the SIX floors!!! UGH!!!