Farmer's Wife Blocks 3 & 4

Happy New Year to everyone.  Doug and I had a wonderful couple of days in Kelowna celebrating his Mom's 90th birthday, and ringing in the New Year with his family. 

 

As promised, I am starting my Farmer's Wife blocks quilt a long.  I hope you join in.  I will post two blocks each Monday.  However, I can't post directions as explained in an earlier post.  If you would like help with your blocks, please e-mail me.

The Basket and Basket Weave blocks are this weeks instalment.  

A Magnificent Miniature Wedding Ring Quilt

Yes, I said magnificent.  This quilt is 13" x 9" and has 272 pieces in it.  It was english paper pieced by the one and only Sonja, and then given to me as a gift for Christmas.  I am so fortunate to have a friend who adds to my collection of miniature quilts in a way that only she can.

Another treasure added to my cabinet of tiny treasures.  Thanks Sonja!!!!!!

As I will be away from my computer for a few days, I want to wish each and every one of you a Happy New Year.  May this upcoming year bring you health, wealth and happiness!

A Christmas filled with family

The best part of Christmas is having the family get together.  Sorry quilters, this one is for the family.

The festivities began a couple of days early with the girls decorating the tree.  What a pair of cuties!

The visiting and posing for pictures began.  My three kids complain about the pictures every year, but humour me anyways.

As always, Kris is a big help in the kitchen.  After all, a Christmas dinner doesn't just cook itself.

And then, the eating began.  Thanks to all my family for making my Christmas perfect!

Merry Christmas Every One!

To all my blog land friends, hope you have a wonderful Christmas filled with family and friends.

My presents are all wrapped and ready to go.  I didn't make a lot of them this year, but these two I just love.

A couple of mugs rugs off to a couple of my dear Postie friends.   The first picture shows them wrapped and placed in front of the Poinsettia that lovely Terry gave me.  The Christmas tree is a little hidden.  Two of our Granddaughters decorated the tree.  It is so cute I left it exactly how they finished.  Each decoration was perfectly placed with love, and I didn't have the heart to move them.  Thanks girls!

Hope to here from each of you after Christmas.  Love to all!

Fran's Quilt

I finally finished quilting Fran's 1870s sampler quilt.  She had purchased it as a block of the month from Dianne at Diversity, then had her good friend Val piece it for her.  This rather large quilt is stunning!

As you can see, I couldn't get the whole quilt in the picture.  So here it is in bits and pieces.

The quilt is now on Fran's bed, just in time for Christmas.

Bali Popalicious

I love Bali Pops.  Katja has just received her shipment of the latest colours, so I get to play  I'm starting out with the Key Lime Pop.  The strips are pre cut  to 2 1/2" by width of fabric  One of my favourite sizes to play with.

So far I have done a little strip piecing and a few half square triangles.  When I'm done, I'll post the directions.  Have a great weekend everyone.
 

Another Beautiful Quilt from Sue Daley's Book

I just finished quilting this stunning quilt.  Kajta had done the glueing, as described in Sue's book, and Sonja did all the piecing and appliqué.  It is the cover quilt and is beautiful in these colours.

Katja had asked me to quilt feathers, so feathers is what she got.  The book is released this month and should be in the Katja's soon.