This and That

Lobster season has just opened  and here are the lobster boats getting ready to go out and catch all that delicious Cape Breton lobster.









Pearl often tries to help me; she does this by lying on my project that is in the machine.  I keep a large basket in my sewing room for scraps and to distract her I throw a handful of treats into the basket and she has to dig to find them.  Bits of fabric get stuck in her fur and later on we find small fabric scraps all over the house as she sheds them.

The tree is almost finished but I am going to run out of thread before it is done. Since I can't just run out and pick up another spool, I ordered some last night and I'm hoping it comes quickly.

 Posting as Brigitte Dimock    

Today was the quarterly meeting and AGM of the Ocean Waves Quilt Society.  This was the first meeting I was able to attend and it was fun.  I met up with some of the ladies I met at the quilt retreat last fall and we were able to do some catching up.  There were also some people selling quilting supplies and I stocked up on fabric and threads. As well as all this fabric, I purchased 7 spools of razzle dazzle thread and picked up a new book.  All this for only $141.00 and no tax.    There was a Featherweight for sale; I have wanted one for quite a long time, but I resisted the temptation to buy it.   We were served a very nice lunch and afterwards had a trunk show presented by Linda Smith.  She talked about her journey from making traditional quilts to making modern quilts.

Winter?

This is what we woke up to this morning and its still snowing lightly.  Good thing we haven't started the garden.

Its very difficult to find supplies for my fiber art here.  There are no quilt shops so I do a lot of online ordering.  Recently I ordered 63 spools of embroidery thread for $129.00 on Amazon, which is very, very inexpensive.  I was concerned the quality would not be very good.  They came on Thursday; they look alright with a nice sheen to the thread; the real test will be later today when I try them out.

I also have only about half the space I had in Ontario for my studio so I ordered this cabinet to organize my threads.  It is very functional.  It has casters so I can roll it close to me when I'm sewing and the drawers are the perfect size to each hold a single color of thread with some drawers left over for needles, bobbins and other small items.  I'm very pleased with it.  Another Amazon purchase.

Its Been a Long Time

Its been quite some time since I have written anything.  Life has been very busy.  I spend a lot of time with my parents, they just turned 88, as well as being involved in village activities and trying to keep up with my fibre art.  I also go to yoga 4 times a week and try to get out for an hour's walk with Pearl and my parent's dog every day.  The winter was quite good until we hit March when we had several storms in a row.  This is the lake on a stormy day.  I wouldn't want to be out there.

Moonglow Blocks

I finished all the blocks with points for Moonglow.  Now I have put it away, probably until next winter, while I work on some more fun projects.

Purple Fantasm

My latest completed projects are Purple Fantasm and Summer Whimsy.

Summer Whimsy

 Pearl loves to sit on my sewing table to look out the window and pretend she is trying to help me.  Here she is lying on my lastest project.  She does have a designated spot on the table with a small blanket but somehow the project in the sewing machine is always more desirable.

My latest project is "The Herons are Back" and I am planning to enter it in the SAQA Atlantic Members show.  The theme is Transitions, and what is more of a transition than the herons coming back signifying that the nicer weather is here to stay.  By the way we haven't seen any herons here yet.   I have spent about 30 hours on it so far and I figure its about half done.    I just love making trees.

The Herons are Back

With Ralph gone, I decided to register Pearl as a emotional service dog.  Now we can take her everywhere with us and she brings smiles to people's faces.  People around here just love their dogs.  I have yet to meet someone who doesn't like dogs or is afraid of them.  Its very refreshing after Ontario where you always had to be so careful, not that I am not careful here, but people have a very different attitude.

PS:  The pictures don't do justice to the colors.  I will try to update this blog on a more regular schedule.