tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18160158575452263172024-03-07T12:04:27.240-08:00Diamond DaysI am/was a great fan of John Denver's songs. One in particular was titled: Some Days are Diamonds, Some Days are stone. This was the inspiration for my blog....when I get to a stage of progress on a particular piece of art work, I like to call that day a Diamond Day. Here are some of my projects. Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-80171711352702261902018-11-11T06:33:00.002-08:002018-11-11T06:33:26.977-08:00Moving of our friend Lyn......back to USA<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sept 10, 2018 reposted Nov 11 (how appropriate REMBERANCE DAY) </span><br />
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<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Today, or I believe it to be so, my good friend Lyn and her hubby will be leaving our cozy area where we live and quilt together. Leaving town, yes, but leaving our friendship NEVER! Lyn, you have brought into our lives every month for ((what 10 years in total)) at your home for flavoured teas, cookie and FQ exchange at Christmas, and so many other great chats that we shared.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I loved it when you would say on a bright, cold, winter’s day......bring your Jammie’s and we will have a sleep over and sewing night all together.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Through you I have met some beautiful ladies......Yvonne, Rose, Sue and Sandra. What a talented group you have brought together.....and so many different ways to share and care. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">You have been so easy to talk to about private things, your calm ways or explaining or sharing. Always welcoming us at the door with a beautiful smile. You taught us little quilting tricks and tips. You kept us all organized, and for goodness sake, showed us how to share all our older magazines and then feel good when the time came to move them forward, or let them go. Thanks to you I have binders of quilts that are in that “Maybe On Day” binder. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">“What fun” “What about this” “Did you see this or that English Series?” “Have you ever read this or that book?”.......yes this was part of who you are. Always sharing new and interesting things with us. A place where we could go and just be ourselves. Every last Tues of the Month when Gal Pals gathered around your table it was always such an interesting time.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">As you close this chapter and start composing the chapters of your life time back in USA with your family so close by, I know you will never forget these “Gal Pals” that you left behind.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Rose, Yvonne, Sue, Sandra, and myself, Denise.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">God Bless you and Doug as you move forward into a new and different life......</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">A little memory that I will always treasure.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Nov 11/2018.......Yvonne and I just realized yesterday, no Christmas Party or sharing of 1FQ, a Christmas Craft you taught us, no 6 cookies for our cookie exchange......and no Almost-Christmas laughs and hopes for a winter storm so we can have a Gal Pal Sleep Over party together. As if there would be much sleeping anyway. You are missed, but we also hope, you are going to have a wonderful Christmas this year being there with your Daughter, SIL, and Grandchildren. Yes, we decided we would share you this year and forward with them. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></span>Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-55705120346351670382018-11-09T06:24:00.002-08:002018-11-09T06:27:59.397-08:00Canatara Park, A beginning of Winter Wonderland Nov 9, 2018Canatara Park, A beginning of Winter Wonderland Nov 9, 2018<br />
Today it starts. Join us as we step outside into our first fall of snow. Who can’t love the snow, put aside the freezing temperatures, the angry winds that blow all around us. Just enjoy the beauty of the day. Please. Put aside thoughts of snow shoveling, boots filling, noses freezing, numb fingers. Just for this “first day of snow” let’s just enjoy the trip together.<br />
Fasten your sleigh belts, here we go.<br />
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Did you see that lone goose photo? It was actually the last one of our winter tour, but I like to call this photo SOLITUDE. That Lone Canada Goose is the KING OF THE KINGDOM. Alone, majestic, ruler of all he/she sees. <br />
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And so it starts, button up your winter coats, put on those boots, gloves, earmuffs and scarves. In favour words of a Christmas Song.....’IN WINTER IT’S A MARSHMALLOW WORLD!’<br />
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GO OUT THERE AND GIVE IT A WHIRL, and enjoy!Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-3803010253497482302018-11-09T05:27:00.000-08:002018-11-09T06:25:03.659-08:00Here I come again. Sept 24, 2018Well, several tries to set up a new account in a new blogger account failed so I decided to return to home base from the very beginning. Now to figure out AGAIN how to make this work.<br />
I am going to combine everything into this blog from here forward. I have several individual blogs and it is just too hard to keep up the challenge of updating them all. Not on my part, but on the part of getting into them all at different times.<br />
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So wish me luck as I move forward keeping this one only up and running. <br />
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I am going to share with you different hobbies, quilts, crafts that I fill my day with. Starts, steps, finished be prepared to catch them all. Please let me know your thoughts as we journey together through this Blogger cyberspace. <br />
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Starting today with an older project and the history. My BFFA Sue gifted me with a Christmas Teddy Bear the year I spent my 1st week visiting her while she was living in Kitchener. My CT was given to me with my promise to her that I would make it and keep it for myself. I believe that was in 2013, several months after Mum’s passing in June. I think of Sue, Mum, and that week every time I go through my UFO Bin/s and see it still waiting.<br />
Wait no more. This week I started cutting it out in the evenings. I hope to have it completed by this Christmas and under our tree. Maybe I can share a photo of Noel (I just named him) if I can get it completed in time.<br />
<br />Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-53295006805556267872018-11-08T06:32:00.000-08:002018-11-09T05:29:23.134-08:00My OVATION Journey Nov 8 2018<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-5b09f723-7fff-ab83-f36d-e6c6a27f7a09" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My 2nd 6-string guitar…..An Ovation purchased 2nd hand and loved to death. I just called her “Ms O.” because that was the best name for her I could settle on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Derek and Emily were small children night time would find me sitting in the hallway outside their bedrooms. On my guitar stool and playing/singing my heart out. You know, children are amazing. They remember the singing at night, but they never said anything about my off pitch tone or sour note. I just played for them from my heart and they took that love with them to this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> She went with me to many activities in my Guiding and Scouting years. “Campfires” at indoor Thinking Week events. My Ovation opened the doors to so many friendships with other players….yes, I met my BFFA Sue when she spent many days and years helping me limp along learning how to play in such a way that I never forgot. She even encouraged my “special” finger picking ways,,,,,no one else can pick the way I do…..they have five fingers, (two to anchor their hands) and 3 to use when picking. I was not quite the same in my hand structure, so I learned my own unique way. </span></div>
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Did I mention that we both played our guitars at our wedding....that was so much fun for us (not sure about our guests) that we actually played way over the time that we had rented the hall for this day. The Embassy Suites gave us the heads up to stay playing as our guests left to go the different ways home.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later on, I purchased my 12 String Takamini Guitar. I had graduated to the big girl guitar era. I named her Esmeralda after one of my song hero’s song….John Denver “Dearest Esmeralda”. I still have her. Last time I played Esmeralda was at my Mother’s funeral…...after that the light on my playing just seemed to fade away. Sad but true. Meanwhile….My O went on to be the chosen guitar that Lou would play all the time. You might say, we actually wore her out with the humming and strumming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A little history lesson about Ovations. Little did I know when I purchased this lovely fibreglass backed instrument (yes, moulded to fit right into my body frame I swear) that the first year of production the artist decided to form the neck from aluminum. He worked for an airplane builder and figured this would be a solid, non-warping, light-weight way to make a long lasting instrument. This was some time during the 70’s. He was right because we were still playing Ms O like nothing would ever stop us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This aluminum neck was formed as one solid piece. The frets (the metal bars that cross the neck and the strings rest upon to bring out the notes) was left in the original aluminum bar and then each side was whittled out, leaving the base that had little bars standing up above the neck. Of course these were then covered with thin pieces of wood, and the strings added and away it went to be sold. These were manufactured this was in the early 70,s for one year, then stopped. So I could think I had an antique…..except……….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our new Ovation is now home with us, and I just love it to pieces. I am even picking her up each day and playing a little bit to rebuild my callouses. The tone is amazing (as I guess all new guitars are). Her outfit is clean, shiny and I hope to see over time the many little scratches from both of us playing her together.</span></div>
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<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" />Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-50503932094984071092018-11-05T13:06:00.000-08:002018-11-05T13:06:02.729-08:00Catching up on my Handwork Nov 5 2018Now a bit about my latest hand crafts....will try and keep them in viewing order, but really since the last time I was able to update, I have a lot to share and show. Get comfortable.<br />
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My BFFA Sue is going to have a little 1st time Great Granddaughter born around the 1st of December, so what can I do to share her happiness with her. Here is what I decided.<br />
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So for fun I decided a new scarf would be amazing for my new winter coat.........so this one is for me. :)Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-23407108670684733492018-11-05T12:49:00.000-08:002018-11-05T12:49:29.339-08:00Trying again. Nov 5 2018CHARLES ARNOLD BOYLE: April 9, 1921 - April 25, 2002<br />
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REMBERANCE DAY: Before I go further with sharing my photos I would like to remember my Father who was drafted to participate in WWII. My Dad returned home to his Family safely. How many have not been so fortunate to share with us now that their enlisted family member was so fortunate. Thank you God and Guardian Angels for giving us our Husband, Father, Grandfather and Uncle back into our lives.<br />
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<span id="goog_1865368107"></span><span id="goog_1865368108"></span><br />Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-36408915453896457942017-04-30T10:12:00.000-07:002017-04-30T10:20:33.558-07:00April 29 2017 Love of lifeApril 29 2017 Love of life<br />
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The past week and the week to come has been very emotional for me. Lou lost his son, I lost my 2nd step child........Lou's first son through his marraige to Annette. This time has shown me several things that I knew, but never realized before. sueWe must love life for all the warts and wrinkles. Growth is in this little package also....<br />
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We live, we grow, we change, and when it is all over, and a new life appears on the horizon because of what we left behind. Then the real blessing starts.....the beauty of continuing life and learning.<br />
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<br />Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-16900876593719488902017-04-30T09:38:00.000-07:002017-04-30T10:06:50.282-07:00April 31/17. On my walk today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I met Jeffrey and his sister Janet when I married their father, Lou, Oct 7 2000. What a very happy day for Lou and I. Meeting his first two children.<br />
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When Lou took me to meet Janet and Jeffrey they were sitting side by side in a wheelchair designed to make their lives comfortable. These two beautiful children were conceived in love and both were born into a life of pain and changes. Like most babies, they grew daily and developed into very observant and lovable children....then like a nightmare in their 5-6 year they changed. They regressed in development. Annette and Lou lovingly took both children to many doctors, and finally months later a diagnose was given. San Filippo desease. The cause, both parents had the same gene absent from their body makeup. Janet and Jeffrey would continue to degenerate for the remander of their lives, which Lou was advised would last approximately 15 years until they would pass nto a better place.<br />
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Flash ahead to say, approximately 37 years later. Today we say goodbye to a beautiful soul. Jeffrey is flying free and waiting for his sister to join him in a better place.<br />
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This photo above to me represents life. Death in the lying tree, life blooms again eternally in the spring daffodils that are beside the tree. All those dried and brown leaves, they represent to me, memories of the life we all live. To me this is nature's glory in the circle of life for each of us.<br />
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Jeffrey here is my prayer for you. May your new wings fit better than your human boday, and may your next life be fulfilled with everything you did not get to experience in this life you left today. Janet will come soon looking for you. and I know you will be waiting for her, just as these many years you sat side by side in your special chairs.<br />
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Rest in peace, my precious stepson. Dad and I miss you so much already.<br />
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<a href="mailto:sparkler47@outlook.com">sparkler47@outlook.com</a>Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-34507117858792445972016-05-26T16:08:00.002-07:002017-04-30T09:50:15.531-07:00Things happen in 3's, or so I have been toldMay 25, 2016<br />
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1: went out to yard last night to plant some annuals. Opened the door on the hose holder to get the spray gun.....was bombarded by five or six wasps who were fleeing. They didn't get me, but when I ran backwards I managed to trip over my sandals and down on the left Butt Cheek I went. Pain from there right up to my head...ache resulted and as the night progressed I could hardly walk, or get up and down. No sewing and eventually just took my sore little butt to bed....</div>
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......<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But we know things happen in threes, so #2 incident for me. B12 needle this morning, so went to Petrolia for coffee. Minding my own business when suddenly this lump of something went into my mouth. Thankfully, I did not swallow but instead spit it out. There on my plate, a wood bug, out flat, drowned or cooked first, not sure which,,,,,it was about 1/2" long and all. its little legs jagged edged.....not going there again. I actually went to mgr with this. They returned cash back for our 2 coffees.....and a free refil in a takeout cup.....after that feeling and memory, I just couldn't even try it.....Meanwhile Lou had sent a msg to Tim's headiffice...not fun at all.</span><br />
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Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-54919710700782992792014-12-07T16:55:00.002-08:002014-12-07T16:55:20.052-08:00Never Too Old to Learn.....or Be Afraid to learn by mistakes<div class="Normal">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, I have been doing this now for quite a while, but because I choose to do everything in this BUCKET LIST from scratch, I want to share with you that I have learned a new
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">November 21 two friends and I got together ((Lyn G and Yvonne T) for an afternoon of complete fun, learning and sore cheek bones by the time we finiished our lesson. Lyn is
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Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-18408635263600484192014-09-01T13:20:00.002-07:002017-04-30T13:06:17.078-07:00A Tale of Quilting a Halloween Table Runner2014 Aug 14 Seemed a simple thing to do,<br />
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It all started when my friends Rose, Anna and I decided to present a night of sharing in November at our local quilting group of other friends. Anna stepped right up to the bar and she made her table runner. Rose will act as our main spokeswoman. So how was I going to participate? (picture a light bulb shining brightly here!).....I know, another friend, Bonita, had just shared a pattern with us. Yes! This will be my portion. I will make and demonstrate this new idea in easy patterns, which are quick, simple, and very striking when finished.<br />
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So you get the picture already don't you. Now to share with you why I am calling this special, but yet oh so pretty table runner <b><u><i>HALLOWEEN HORRORS</i></u></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Yes,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">using that lesson from Bonita.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> I have renamed that table runner from Hugs and Kisses to Halloween Horrors. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Here has and is my experience so far.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">1/ sewed the front wrongly by adding that reverse block pattern.hence I was going to call it HALLOWEEN HUGS AND KISSES ...you know XOX idea..Wrong, wrong, wrong! None of the seams joined properly and it was a more jagged look. .OK ripped out, resewed it together again, and now it looks great</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">2/ worked on the back using that reverse block that is no longer showing the X in the middle, sewed strips of same material used on front and left over to each end to complete the look.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">3/ pinned both front and back together...back was on strip short on each end. Fixed that to make the back longer than the front</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">4/ got it all pinned an quilted looking good and learned how to work with invisible thread on back...looking good All quilted, now to move forward to the binding..</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">5/ trimmed up all 4 sides to make it all nice and ready for sewing on the black binding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">6/ turned it over HORRORS......one side at one end goes from 1" short to zip short...the length of one of the blocks on front........I think I died...now what do I do.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">7/ I went to Walmart and bought myself a light weight BROTHER sewing machine as I have been telling myself to do since early spring. You know how it is.....when things get stressed, the stressed go shopping. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">8/ I came home and figured out how to fix that horror so it will at least get finished. I joined the short section to some left over strips that I had just cut off while straightening the sides (see #5). Hand stitched everything into place, trimmed again and did a final 1/8" stitch around all 4 sides to be sure I had it right this time. I DID....whew!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">9/ From this point on it was easy, peasy. Cut out my binding, sewed it to the back, turned around and pinned the front binding in place and sat down at my new sewing machine and stitched a beautiful line all around it. I used thread auditioning the colours of fall. Hunter green, running into gold and then into orange, light cream and black.....boy that made everything pop.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> I named it Halloween Horrors, an cant wait for you to see the finished photos below. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">3A/......I took a pen that you can iron off the lines (friction pen) and proceeded to draw wiggly lines all over the lightest area on the front for quilting ideas. I didn't like the scribbles so tried to iRON them out. Oh Grasp....I used the wrong pen and ended up with bright green highlighter and it won't iron off......sheesh!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This has been such a disaster that I think for fun and hilarity. it has been a really educational step in my quilting and thank goodness I learned that pride goes before a fall, or Karma Can and Does Kick Butt.....I was so pleased with the progress I was making after step 1 above, that I thought then nothing would stop me now....well it didn't I stop me, but certainly slowed me down and opened my eyes as to what can happen in my quilting life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> *started Aug 18th and finished Aug 31, 2014.....this has to have been my fastest project ever.</span>Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-56088573148705183602014-08-27T13:27:00.001-07:002017-04-30T13:07:37.192-07:00Autumn adventure in Mug Rugs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I have been having a great, glorious, getting ready for fall here in my Quilting Playroom. As a member in a group called QUILTERS WHO CARE a lot of the members are partnering up and sending each other a Autumn Mug Rug (or Mug Mat as I used to call them).<br />
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This has been my contribution to bring in the fall colours. <br />
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Already this summer, yes, it is still summer, driving along the streets of town, or even along the major highways it is very noticeable that fall is creeping in on us with her soft, quiet ways. <br />
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With this M.R. I am also staring to downsize some of my stash materials. You know, out with the old so you can shop for more. Fortunately (or unfortunately) for me I have lots to fall back on in my cupboards, shelves, bins, etc, etc, etc.<br />
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Now this Autumn M.R. is on its way to a friend in USA, I have already picked out the choice for WINTER Mug Mat. Stay tuned, when it is finished, I will be placing a photo here in my journal for you to take a look see.<br />
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Remember that old school memory work:<br />
Along the lines of smoky hills the crimson forest stands.<br />
And all day long the blue jay calls throughout the autumn land<br />
Now by the brook the maple stands with all her glory spread<br />
And all the sumacks on the hill have turned their greens to reds.<br />
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And that my friends is how I felt when I made this Mug Mat/Rug for my friend across the border.<br />
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Enjoy this day, as sooner than we know it, we will be deep in the white stuff.<br />
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Aug 27 2014Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-2667568429637774012014-07-29T09:48:00.000-07:002014-07-29T09:48:31.403-07:00Mug Mat AdventureMug Mats???? Ever heard of them? Do you walk on them, put one under a rocking chair? Maybe even hopes of hopes, never have to take them outside and shake them? Well, here is an interesting fact about Mug Mats<br />
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They are usually 6x9" big, and are made for your pure enjoyment....of a cuppa coffee or tea, and maybe large enough to hold a spoon (be careful, don't want to stain them) and/or maybe a sweet treat.<br />
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To make a Mug Mat you would start with some sort of pattern idea. Worthy Note Here: I have pinned several samples on my Pinterest account if you want to check some of them out. (look for Diamond Dee). There are samples from campsites, to silhouette profiles blowing coloured bubbles,,,,happens to be a favourite of mine.<br />
Too many, in fact, to know which one to choose for your own project.<br />
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So....my eyes settled on a rainbow coloured sample. I thought this idea would be fun to try....of course, it was! So off I went to my scrappy bin and chose all my rainbow colours with flowers in the pattern. I set to work cutting my 2" hexagons after printing them on the HP printer first, and of course singly cutting each little hex out by hand.<br />
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Then I proceeded to glue the paper pattern to the material square of 4" each, and a glue stick works perfect for this step....warning from learning, you don't need a lot of glue, just a dab in the center will work wonders to hold the paper pieced hexie to the material.<br />
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Then next step, I measured and marked approx 1/4" all around the pp (paper pieced) hexie and then very carefully cut the extra material off the marked part. <br />
Then I proceeded to hand based the 1/4 seam in place all around the hexie turning the excess material to the back. And away I went. placing, and whip stitching all the hexagons in place to follow through on my rainbow choice.<br />
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Alas, this was going too smoothly. I finished all the hand whipping of hexagons only to discover....it was wayyyyyyyyyy to large. So out came the seam ripper for a bit of "frogging"....in other words..............rrrrriiiiiippppppp. So next I measured the size I needed and proceeded to cut it into a 6x9" rectangle.....oh for sakes alive, I trimmed it too small. So over to my scrap box again and found some material that would fit the bill and could be added to the sides and thereby complete my 6x9" requirement. The material I found was a sample of grassy area...what more appropriate to encase my flower garden. Of course as luck or lack of skill would have it....my Red and Indigo colour strips were cut off....so part of the rainbow is no more.<br />
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To finish my little mug mat and being happy that all was not lost, I found a piece of material that would match and yet keeping with the green grass look, I proceeded to make a self-backing and binding finish. This wasn't hard to do at all. perhaps being a nice small size helped. The last step I did was to sign the back of the mat and leave a different sort of quilt label. I thought it was very appropriate and was totally happy with my finished mug mat.<br />
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Now you might ask the purpose in making this little event happen. Thanks to an online group I belong to who decided July was a great month to make a mug mat swap, and of which I was quick to join in.......Thank you to the group member (Lois) who suggested our little fun in July. Now we will be hopefully making one for the seasonal changes, or yearly type holidays. Stay tuned if I am able to jump in again, you will find more of my mats in this Blog.<br />
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Here are some photos I took along the process. I loved this idea and am now waiting for the arrival of my own exchange to come from one of the other members. Great fun this July.<br />
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Oh yes, Math was never my strongest point! Would you like to see a few instructions and maybe try making some for yourself.....check out these web sites:<br />
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<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/auntpittypat2/quilted-mug-rugs/" style="line-height: 100%;">http://www.pinterest.com/auntpittypat2/quilted-mug-rugs/</a></div>
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<a href="http://quiltinglibrary.blogspot.ca/2011/11/mug-rugs-tutorials.html">http://quiltinglibrary.blogspot.ca/2011/11/mug-rugs-tutorials.html</a></div>
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http://thecuriousquilter.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/make-a-basic-quilted-mug-rug-a-tutorial/</div>
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July 29, 2014Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-29432535778894900442014-05-08T16:01:00.000-07:002014-05-08T16:01:09.321-07:00January Hexagon has been completed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know, and you know, the months just seem to fly by. For me it is now a completion of month five....or in the calendar year known as January.<br />
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This little block tells a small story of my year 2000 (see center block). For all the world, this was the beginning of a new millennium. The year 2000, open to so many new possibilities and a whole new year lies ahead. This was also a very special year to myself and my brand new hubby.....then, now we've been married for 13 years this October. So naturally I would used this beautiful piece of blue to be the focus of my block.<br />
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Blue, January, dark days and darker nights. Snow falling and darkness. That is the theme I have chosen for this wonderful month of new beginnings. In the top section all dressed in blue I have tried to capture the night sky using some very shiny, thick silver threads...might not notice it, but I decided that this should be a cold, clear night full of many sparkling stars. Each of the central circles have colonial knots to show off the sparkle, and in a few of the other circles I have added crossed straight stitches to reflect the sparkle and shine of larger stars, maybe even one is the North Star...the star that guides our way. My seam treatment consists of the feather stitch with 2 colonial knots resting lightly on the thread.<br />
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Going to the left of the block, for trim I have added curves made from dull, grey, but yet a bit shiny sequins. These sequins have been sewn onto elastic, so they give a really nice shape of snow drift tops, the likes of which we see adorning the edges of snow covered highways and country roads.....in the gold and cream material you will see blue snowflakes resting lightly. These snowflakes are made by using straight stitches but the larges one (probably the one not seen so well) has tips made using a fly-stitch pattern. To help draw attention to this quieter flake I sewed to buttons in place (blue of course with white snowflakes painted on top) either side of the row of sequins.<br />
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Going to the patch in the bottom of this block I used the fly stitches placed really close together, yet not evenly stitched....to use as arrows pointing down toward the long straight stitches with sparkly beads to look like long, dripping icicles. <br />
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Now who I ask, could not enjoy being a child again and getting out in the fresh, newly fallen snow and not take part in making a snowman. Isn't this the dream of every child? The snowman used here was a cute little winter button that I had in my stash.....he just knew how to play the part so well. To decorate this border, I used a stitch called the Weave Stitch.....it comprises of 3 stitches lying on top of each other, bordered by 3 stitches standing tall, guarding the snowman. These two stitch layouts follow along the stitching line on the hexagon. Maybe in some imaginations they could be those old wooden split rail fences....well, just a thought.<br />
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Oh but what winter plan doesn't include a warm, cozy home of love, complete with a little stream of smoke coming out of the chimney? But Wait!!! If you can really look closely in the yard in front of the house you may see a little family of bunnies looking longingly at that house. Maybe they want to come inside and get warm? The bunny family (daddy, mummy and baby) members have been made using a fly stitch for the ears, with a little small almost circular lazy daizy stitch for the head, and then a longer, stretched out lazy daisy for the main body.....and I hope you can see it, the little French Knot bunny tail......in the still, quiet of the night, we never can tell what animals are watching over us. I chose, for seam treatment to be used on this seam a stitch called The Wheat Stitch....it consists of a fly stitch base with a lazy daisy oval resting on the base. I did these stitches fairly close together and followed that sewn seam....btw, this was the inspiration to make that family of bunnies on the front lawn.<br />
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And this brings to a finish the January Hexigon block......what fun to create and design my "Year in Hexigon" table runner.<br />
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Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-87922128589945154022014-04-23T19:35:00.001-07:002014-04-23T19:35:42.845-07:00Hexigon Table Runner growing by another month (Dec)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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As this is my ongoing Year in Hexagon fun I thought I'd show a photo of the 1st four months starting to take shape. I have a lot to finish yet, I know I will get to the other months all in good time. I thought it would be fun to see the table runner grow by months at a time. </div>
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A Quillow....until a few years ago I hadn't any idea what they were.....but patience paid out. The teacher of my class, back in September, offered this course through my Quilt Guild. I signed up right away. A quillow is a quilt that can be folded and turned into its own pillow. Yes, when you make the quillow, on the back after the quilting is finished you sew on a matching block which will become the pillow to hold this said quilt.<br />
Our teacher, Wanda, challenged us to bring in what we had completed 2 quilt meetings later. I was very please to hold up my Love of Pansy Quillow and show it along with other students, our quillow in the making. <br />
This is a very special piece of quilting for me as I love pansys. My Grandmother taught me when I was a child that pansy faces are the most beautiful in all the garden. Have you ever studied a pansy's face? Some are bright and clear, while others seem to have shaded eyes. If you ever see a pansy garden, take a look, you might be surprised.<br />
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The top photo is showing the 2 first blocks we made in class that day. The bottom photo shows the flimsy quilt top up to the borders. I have the batting and backing all prepared as well, and the binding has been all sewn up, folded and waiting to play its own part, in time.<br />
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Years ago before I ever started quilting my Mum saw this pansy material in a quilt shop in a small nearby village. She fell in love with it and decided to take a course making a quilt with it. The teacher stressed the need for 4 yards. So I had a bright though, I'd purchase 2 yards for Mum's birthday that year.....Mum purchased and added to that 2 yards of her own. Sadly enough, my Dad became ill at the time and Mum was never able to take the course, but the material was washed and packed away. This past June my Mother herself passed away and I inherited a lot of material and other sewing goodies from her. There it was, the pansy material so nicely folded and waiting for me to use.<br />
I decided this would be my first quillow goal. I love the bright cherryness of this soon to be blanket-quilt. Of course I still have to finish it and add the binding. This has been a learning experience for me, but even more, a labour of love as I work on my dream quilt, as Mum was never able to do.<br />
Hopefully when I get it all finished I will post another photo to show you all what a gift of love can do for all involved.<br />
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:) Apr 20, 2014Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-61583975632570876392014-04-20T20:29:00.001-07:002014-04-20T20:30:24.806-07:00BeeKeeper Afghan steps and first result<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You ask, Why the basket of little knitted hexigons? Well, I saw the pattern and I fell in love with it. A few weeks later I had collected between 200 and 300 hundred of these little knit pieces. First you knit the hexigons on two needles, then stuff them with polyester stuffing, and crochet them closed. It doesn't take long, about 35-40 minutes each. Now you ask what am I going to do with them? Well as starters I have an antique rocking chair that is just calling out for back and a cushion made of them. This will be set in our newly refinished Creative Quilting room for those times when I just want to sit and rock......well, really more for show and tell. A lot of my friends asked me what my plans were for them. See below. This is just the first item. I had used only 30 + of the initial basket. Then stay tuned for what I plan to do with the rest of them in the future.<br />
Enjoy this rock with me.<br />
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<br />Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-30992014171168866832014-04-06T17:56:00.000-07:002014-04-06T17:56:03.016-07:00S16 Temari Challenge update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi, and why 2 photos....Top left is the clearest, but if one looks closely, the non-grooming is very noticeable. The 2nd photo isn't as bright but it sure looks a lot better. So I have completed Kiku 1 and Kiku 2 of the total three that need to be finished.<br />
This is the north pole portion only (that also means the top half). <br />
I believe that I will go ahead tomorrow and work on the south pole half so that I can be ready to complete Kiku 3 when the instructions arrive.<br />
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This is such a calming craft. I had no idea......on Big Bro Puter I have put an internet radio station of calming music....it is working, I'm very calm, in fact, I think it will soon be time for bed. Another nice ending to a busy weekend.<br />
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:) Apr 6 2014 8:56Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-24947340782672535222014-04-06T10:57:00.000-07:002014-04-06T10:57:31.588-07:00My very first ever Temari 2006 or 2007. Lots to learn here.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Here it is, my very first Temari. I think I did this one while recuperating from surgery back in 2006, or maybe 2007. I had so much to learn. This photo does not show the lopsidedness of the stitch rounds. Funny thing though, I love it. I didn't understand back then that the threads could be removed, so instead I glued them in at the beginning of my work, so they wouldn't fall out. Now, looking back, I sort of like the beaded effect. </div>
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<br />Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-76100529152242169322014-04-04T16:59:00.000-07:002014-04-04T16:59:06.865-07:00S8 Warm-up Temari now finished<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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And I am very proud.....here is my first warm-up Temari stitched along with my online-Temari group. So where do I go from here....forward.<br />
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This is a very simple 8 section pattern taught by the group owner. It is known as a S8.....I get it, simple 8 section. Next I will hopefully be spotlighting the Challenge Temari known as a S16.....right, simple 16 section pattern. <br />
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I hope that anyone reading this blog of mine may become interested in taking up this hobby in the future. It is really fun and as all hand crafts, I am learning new ideas, and structures.<br />
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I have the base for the S16 ready to go and I hope this weekend to begin on that work. Then I'm going to experiment on making a container to place inside the Temari so that little bells will jingle out notes when it is handled. I have a necklace, and a car key ring which play little tunes. Apparently this is a form of meditation charm that has been used in China for many years. I was told when I purchased the necklace that the sound is soothing to the heart when it sends out musical notes. So I think this will really make a nice sound when I need to pick up my work and listen.<br />
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Thank you to Kalia for her original tutorial on her blog showing me steps to take to make the bell inside a ping pong ball. I just found that the price of them is a little high, so am experimenting with another method. If it doesn't work, well, I know where to purchase said ping pong balls.<br />
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Onward and forward into this new world of Temari<br />
Apr 4 2014Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-62976799898554952672014-04-01T18:22:00.001-07:002014-04-01T18:22:47.058-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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April 1, 2014......and the joke was on me. I couldn't remember the name of this blog so that I could add the 1st photo of my beginner Warm-Up Temari Ball that I have half finished. I made 2 Temari about 6 or 7 years ago....they were my first and at that time, last. When I find them (previously packed and not found yet for our move to our new home in 2011) I will display them here as well.<br />
The photo does not do justice to the really nice colours I chose for this Temari. I have rejoined a Temari on-line group and just in time I started to read along. The group owner has set up a Temari Challenge.....and I was very happy when she advised the group that she was setting up a beginner warm-up for us to work on first, before we started the challenge.<br />
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In order to make this piece I started right from scratch. Previously I used 2 styrofoam balls. I guess one of the reasons I didn't make more was that I just didn't like the feel of that harder surface. This time I searched on line and learned how to make the inner ball using some rice shells and another shell source that a friend had sent me. What a difference. I think I will not use styro again, although as a true, true beginner, it got me through.<br />
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This temari has a black background. The 8 sections (known as S8) were made using a thicker, sparkly, deep purple and silver thread. These lines will be my pattern sections.<br />
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The first 4 petal star I made using a thinner crochet cotton. I chose a mint green for this layer.<br />
The second 4 petal star used the same size cotton but in a softer variegated pink.<br />
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This scan does not do justice to the look, but when I finish my work, I will take photos and present in this blog the best of them all.<br />
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<br />Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-89167946500653135982014-03-13T14:36:00.002-07:002014-03-13T14:36:21.825-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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My year in embellishing. I started this hexagon in September and hope to do one for each month of the year. The original pattern came from Victoriana Quilts. These finished months will be a table runner, maybe even on display on the coffee table in the living room....or it might become a wall hanging for my sewing room decor. Stay tuned for other blocks to follow<br />
:)Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-17065686246032687372014-03-13T07:52:00.002-07:002014-03-13T12:00:06.863-07:002014 Mar 13. Back again with a new look at Blogs....<br />
I have decided to keep a journal of my WIPs (work in progress).i thought a nice diary of what I am bringing out of the dark and working on....also soe current projects. So hopefully I will keep a diary of sorts of my progress. Unfortunately I cannot add a WIP photo beside a finished project, cause at the moment I haven't got that set up yet in my own personal files...but maybe in the future I can figure that out....so please stay tuned for more photo displays....you know what is funny, here I am talking to myself thinking that I have contacts to share things with.<br />
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Stay tuned, maybe I can get some interested friends to come visit me.<br />
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That's about all for today. I have to relearn everything here again about Blogging...<br />
;) MeDiamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-2778502171955431922008-04-01T05:45:00.000-07:002008-12-10T00:31:28.196-08:00My ANGEL AROUND THE WORLD QUILT<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodg4BEzmeJOzIb2aSHu5cOm4ilr7bfVXGOhVWIOjudycrFYFENOh91jrpxWuVm2AZNxlIpxXnTeGk4rqhML-dky3T71zGwhD5nyQxOsjECp5F7jI6Wj7M_BcBwFcwx-6ZPy3mBrmCgl4V/s1600-h/Assembly+picture+on+Linda%27s+floor+Nova+Scotia+2006.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184259086975357570" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjodg4BEzmeJOzIb2aSHu5cOm4ilr7bfVXGOhVWIOjudycrFYFENOh91jrpxWuVm2AZNxlIpxXnTeGk4rqhML-dky3T71zGwhD5nyQxOsjECp5F7jI6Wj7M_BcBwFcwx-6ZPy3mBrmCgl4V/s320/Assembly+picture+on+Linda%27s+floor+Nova+Scotia+2006.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8fF31bGkQxIZ5i0p7EydAIPgz0r-hR59bwtNmSI7C5-yyB5l1mcmzHSo0ecglpPEBPHMUM2lBCaxQOKToXLfSVZrvY3bdnvQKJpwoMaGxZ63WZumJ259byqkZ92kn9nNkfqYT3b0kx-71/s1600-h/Assembly+picture+on+Linda%27s+floor+Nova+Scotia+2006.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184257308858897010" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8fF31bGkQxIZ5i0p7EydAIPgz0r-hR59bwtNmSI7C5-yyB5l1mcmzHSo0ecglpPEBPHMUM2lBCaxQOKToXLfSVZrvY3bdnvQKJpwoMaGxZ63WZumJ259byqkZ92kn9nNkfqYT3b0kx-71/s320/Assembly+picture+on+Linda%27s+floor+Nova+Scotia+2006.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><p>Here is a picture of my ANGELS AROUND THE WORLD QUILT. There were 18 girls who participated by doing from 1 to 7 blocks each.</p><br /><br /><p>Linda in Nova Scotia not one did the blocks but also assembled and stitched the whole quilt together. </p><br /><br /><p>Then it was mailed to Shari in Saskatchewan who put the back on it. Then sent it to me as a huge surprise.</p><br /><br /><p>This quilt's theme was BEATING CANCER because that sumer (2002) I was told by my family Dr that my tests showed I had breast cancer. Lucky and very fortunate that I was, it didn't happen. There was a misdiagnosis. I still say it had something to do with my Angels working behind the scene sending healing and positive thoughts with them.</p><br /><br /><p>The girls came from</p><p> England (Doreen, Marian, Pam) </p><p>Austraila (Shirley, Dawa) </p><p>USA (Leslie-Colorado (who also made a most beautiful Angle Friend wallhanging) Sandy-near Paduka, Jackie-Illinois, Laurie-Hawaii, Kim-California, Rev Linda, JC</p><p>Canada (Shari-Saskatchewan, Linda-Nova Scotia, Kerry-Alberta, Ginette-Quebec, Mary-British Columbia, Catharine-Ontario)</p>I will get a picture of the wallhanging ANGEL poem and post it here also.<br />Everytime I display my ANGELS AROUND THE WORLD, my heart starts to sing as I can feel the love coming from every stitch.<br /><br />I believe, and I know I'm right, that when piecing it together for me I am sure Linda lost one of her Angel wings or did she really gain a 3rd one from the patience of putting velvet with cotton? And Shari. she made sure that everything was reinforced when it arrived so that nothing would remove itself from the quilt top. That in itself was a tremendous amount of work, even before she stitched the front quilt to the backing materia.<br /><br />This was truly a labour of love, but to my and my family, it has become a family Heirloom.<br /><br />Thank you again to all who participated.<br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><p><br />Linda<br />Leslie<br />Kerry<br />Catharine<br />Marian<br />Pam<br />Doreen<br />Mary<br />Laurie<br />Kim<br />Ginette<br />Shirley K<br />Jackie<br />Sandy<br />Rev Linda (Jammie)<br />Dawa<br />JC<br />Shari<br /></p>Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1816015857545226317.post-71734912245663453112008-04-01T05:30:00.001-07:002008-04-01T05:43:33.582-07:00A bit about catching upFor the past few months I've been trying to complete several long standing projects so here I am again to record and journal that journey.<br />I will be adding pics as things begin to happen.<br />I have reunited with such a great friend (Susan) and she has begun quilting as well. She is such an inspiration as she finishes what she starts. I am hoping that her GOOD HABITS will begin to rub off on me. Already it seems to be working in the coming months I hope to journal all that I have completed.<br />At the same time I am still teaching embellishing so between my own projects I've been busy getting lesson plans put into action. I am enjoying so much sharing and teaching others. I hope to take my ANGEL QUILT FROM AROUND THE WORLD to the quilt guild on Monday and showing my "sane" quilting friends just what can be done with a few beads and things. Hummmm I should get a picture right here to show all of you what I mean. Eighteen of my friends in a cyber Embellishing group made this quilt for me. Some did one block, some did 7 or 8. This is a true gift of love and can never be replaced. At the moment on of my projects is to sew a sleeve on the back and get this quilt hung in my home for displaying the love that othes have shown me.Diamond Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15511321587297298637noreply@blogger.com0