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Challenge 2017 - # 25, 26, 27 - a whole lotta scraps!

I've had a busy summer. Hubby and I spent a week visiting my parents in Winnipeg. We brought my mum back with us for a week. Mu and I got a lot of quilting done! One of my summer projects was to make quilts for the 3 children of our pastor. Pastor Ken and his family have recently moved from Calgary to Surrey BC. We will miss them. I decided to make scrap quilts for each of the kids and Mum was a great help to me as we worked on these large lap quilts for the kids. We found this simple quilt from Quilts and More magazine and dug into my huge pile of scraps! Mum sewed all the strips together. I cut the strip sets into block units and she and I sewed partial seams to make the blocks. The qu

Challenge 2017 - #24, Wedding Rings Quilt

Growing up, there were 3 couples with 8 daughters between them,. These couples had no immediate family near by and joined forces to become their own extended family. I am so very thankful to Auntie Sheila and Uncle Viv, Auntie Keta and Uncle Doug and my own Mum and Dad for raising 8 wonderfully strong women. We have grown to be wives, mothers, aunts, and even a few of us are grandmothers! My husband and I have been privileged to be included into my Son-in-law's immediate family and extended family. Here's the next chapter of the ever widening relationship in this growing family. We were thrilled when we heard that D was engaged to be married! She and her kids were going to be marrying G an

Road Trip!

We are in Winnipeg visiting my parents. We took 2 days to get from Calgary and took the north route through Yorkton. Unfortunately, no quilt shop were open on Sunday or Monday. Mum is an avid quilter and hubby and daddy are great supporters. So on Tuesday we ran errands in town and yesterday drove to Gimli. Thought I'd share my personal shop hop visits. Tuesday morning we google mapped Keystone Quilts in south east Winnipeg. A lovely little store and quite easy to find. Because of my fabric dyeing craze, I'm picking up meters of various manufactures of white fabric. I bought some princess mira batik white and Kona white fabric. Next stop was to drop off Mum's machine for servicing at

Wowza! Look at those colors!

I'm on a fabric dyeing craze lately. I've been dyeing fabric almost non stop and I'm loving it! I found a new to me book on hand dyeing fabric in my personal library. I pulled it out to have a look and was surprised that I hadn't remembered that I had this book. Reading through it I found a new and simpler method and just had to give it a try! I pulled out the very last of my white fabrics and ripped it into just enough FQs to do what I wanted to do. First up was a 12 step color wheel. I choose bright yellow, fuchsia and turquoise dyes. The method is straight forward and I was surprised that I made less mess than usual. I love the colors and the texture I get in my fabrics. At the back of