Jewels Into Hearts

 Hi!

Since we live in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario we have an international bridge to the US at our disposal.  Since March 17 though, it has been closed due to Covid-19.  Scrolling Pinterest, I saw a fun quilt with hearts that were English Paper Pieced.  I can do that!   

So I ordered the 1" jewel paper pieces and once they finally arrived, I stared making hearts. I decided to keep them in blues and teal, 1 for each day the bridge is closed.  I thought that it would make a nice wall hanging....

I believe that this will now be a quilt...

And I have started to pester my friends and family for 5" square pieces of blue fabric.  I want to make each heart a different fabric, and so I need help!  We are at day 262 and still counting!

Here's what I have so far...

Still Here!

 Hello!

Sick of hearing why things are delayed or cancelled because of Covid-19?

Me too...

But I'm still here!

I've been working on projects and not quite finishing some. But I DID finish the latest installment of my god child's scrapbooks!  Here's just a few of the pages from that album, including one of me at the very end, at the same age she was in her picture...

Hugs!

Cindy

Flip Flop Quilt

Hi!

As I become more confident in my sewing skills, I try new things.  

I wanted to make a quick quilt for my godmother and thought.. Hey!  Quilt As You Go!

The premise is that Each square is quilted individually, top, battang and backing then you just attach the pieces together.  

Use Steam A Seam on the back of the fabric and cut out the flip flops...

Got through the individual squares alright. I left some squares empty and just quilted shell shapes.

Sew the back pieces together first, then hand sew or machine sew the tops.

I used some decorative stitches on my machine to make sure the seams would stay down and hopefully mimic sand and water.

Completely threw me off, seeing the individual seams on the top....

But, for something I just put together without a pattern, not bad first try.   

My godmother has now received it, and she seems to like it.  So I'm glad! 

That's my guy posing with it outside...

Hugs!

Cindy

6 months Temperature Blanket

Hello!

Well, you can plan ahead for some projects, but some you can not, and so have to be adaptable.

I started 2020 with a temperature blanket.  I posted about this on February 2. 

I was using Bernat Handicrafter cotton solid yarn in these colours in degrees Celsius:

-30 to -26 Robin's Egg  0

-25 to -21 Mod Blue  0

-20 to -16 Hot Blue  0

-15 to -11 Blueberry  1

-10 to -6 French Blue  3

-5 to -1 Blue Jeans  6

0 to 4 Teal  10

5 to 9 Sage Green  6

10 to 14 Emerald  2

15 to 19 Chamomile  3

20 to 24 Coral Rose  2

25 to 29 Tangerine  2

30 to 35 Country Red  1

By mid June, I could no longer find most of these solid colours available, so I stopped and now have a 6 month temperature blanket.  It's quite nice, but I would have liked to complete the year.  Oh well!

The number of balls used is written next to each colour.

Photography

Hello!

I used to be a professional photographer.

I took wedding photos, portraits and had a portfolio.

This was at the end of negative based photography and the beginning of Digital.  People were becoming more photo savvy and not willing to pay for a real professional.  I then worked in a 1-hour lab.  That's where I met my man of 25 years....

I sold off my professional equipment years ago, and now only have my phone and digital camera.  I've just packed up the last of my negatives and slides and sent them off to be digitally scanned so I can have them forever on my computer system. What a task!  Pick only your best stuff because it's about $1 an image!  

But I still dabble in photography.

At the beginning of this pandemic, I made an impulse purchase of a Lensball.  I finally got it 3 and half months in.  You might have seen ads about this item.  Yesterday I got this overwhelming urge to go on a photo safari.  Packed up the basics, my dog and headed to the beach on Lake Superior.  

So I played.  Man it's nice to just take pictures and delete what doesn't work.  I took ALOT of pictures on film that had to be developed and printed.  This wasted ALOT of negatives.  So easy now!  Shoot & delete if you do not like!

There are days, I miss this, and so off I go to play....

Hugs!

Cindy

Keeping Creative

Hello!

I do not like the new Blogger.  I cannot find things easily and it publishes posts I was working on and not completed yet.....

That said, here is some more of what I've been doing to keep myself busy.

On my deck I continued the idea of a fairy garden.  This is what it looked like in May, when planted.

And now a couple months later it looks like this!

Hugs!

Happy Canada Day!!!

Hello 'Eh!

We really do say this more often than we realize. LOL!

I had a friend recently ask me to make her a pile of Canada cards.

I really enjoyed getting into it and making them fun.

My original card was this (along with a summer one)   It was made in 1995.

The batch she got was very similar, but not exact due to no longer having some of the stamps from then.

Now for my house decorations!

Due to no public gatherings, we were encouraged to decorate our homes and send in pictures.  

Here are mine!

Hugs!

Cindy