My friend, Christine, and I had a few days away at the cottage last weekend. We brought our sewing machines, projects, and handwork with us, as well as some books to read and good food to eat. It was a pretty relaxing weekend. A storm blew through and the power was off for 12 hours, but we found lots to do. We even toasted bagels and boiled water for tea on the BBQ!
I started a Tiny House quilt (online class by Jo Avery). My houses still need roofs and chimneys but I did didn't have the right colour of fabric with me to do them when we were away. I need to make more houses and trees before I put it together to make a table runner.
I took an improv tree class with Cheryl Arkison a few months ago and added a few more trees to my stack while we were away.
Our guild is making some Quilts of Valour and I made these blocks to hand in for this group project. The centre squares were provided and I used my own fabrics for the frames.
My flannel scraps baby quilt got some attention. The centre is pieced together now and I put enough scraps together to finish off two corners. I will have to piece more scraps together to finish the last two corners. I didn't bring enough scraps with me...but do not fear, I still have lots.
Christine reupholstered a chair at the cottage with some selvages. The old seat cover was looking a bit tired and now this chair has a new life!
One of Christine's goals for the weekend was to learn how to use her hand crank singer sewing machine. She could still sew, even though the power was off! She sewed her Quilts of Valour blocks on this machine and then started a new project. She wants to piece the entire quilt top using the hand crank machine.
On Saturday afternoon, our friend, Cathy of Eagle's Wings Quilts came for an afternoon of hand stitching and chatting. There were also a few treats consumed... Cathy worked on a paper pieced quilt--she has received squares from several blogging friends to use in this quilt and we added more squares to her collection when she arrived. Christine added more stitches to her cross stitch project. It is almost done! I did some rug hooking on my pitcher plant picture.
We ate our meals out on the screened in porch, overlooking the lake.
One evening, there was reading time on the dock. (until the bugs chased us back into the cottage!)
I came home to an explosion of colour in my garden! Lots of flowers blooming at the moment.
Several of the quilters who made quilts for the hospice were on hand last week to present 22 quilts to the new hospice which will be opening in July. (Not all of the quilts are in this picture.) The staff at the hospice were thrilled to receive our donation! Thanks to all who contributed to this worthwhile project.
It's been really hot this week, but Finn still wanted to spend time outside. Don't worry, my daughter did not let him stay out too long in the heat.
I have started working on the blue sky and the flowers are just about done.
I will link up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers as well as Frederique.
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