Cute quilt

Happy Family Day! It's a holiday over here and we celebrated yesterday when everyone came over to watch the Olympic hockey game.

Here's a free pattern from The Red Boot Quilt Company in Australia but only as long as the Olympics are on.


Please note: If you are printing in North America, this will fit a legal sized paper. Otherwise, A5 will do. Printing on 8.5" X 11" may cause you some headaches and the feeling that you are missing something.

Check out their other patterns that are equally as cute.

Champagne Quilters Update

I haven't posted in a while about the quilt that the Champagne Quilters are working on so here are a few photos of the quilt on the frame. I had to stand up on a chair to get these photo. It's a big quilt and we are making it to give to Marg's church to raffle off.

It's a queen size. (edit: about 90 inches across and 102 inches long)

Here's Marg diligently working away at her end. She's just about to finish up the first row.

It's a colourful quilt and that particular shade of blue is just perfect.

There are only a couple of stars where the fabrics are repeated.

Marg's end got in a couple of turns by the end of the evening.

Continuing on...

Oh look...

The beginning of another cowl. Gray again but darker this time.

This is what I am reading. It's small and it's been on my list for a while now.

One mug rug finished and one more to complete. These are part of the Quilting Gallery's Mug Rug Swap celebrating the Olympics in Sochi. The patterns come with the sign-up and everyone makes these two patterns. I am hoping to finish both of them this week and send them off to my partner. They will both need labels.

I'm linking up with the Needle and Thread Network and with Esther's WIP blog.

Catching up

I finally finished the long cowl - or should I say one of the long cowls.

This is for my daughter-in-law, Kate. It's 70.5 inches long. The next one will be in a darker gray and slightly different yarn.

For those of you with cats, you can relate. I tried to take a photo without little Pixel but she insisted on assisting. This is the braid for the block of the month called Cathy's Carousel hosted by Pam at Mad About Patchwork. I had finished the braid before but I finally decided what fabric to border it with.

This is the second installment of the BOM. As you can see, half of it still has the paper attached to the back. It's the first paper pieced block. The next one is much bigger.

I'm linking up with What a Hoot Quilts. Pop on over to see how other people are getting along with their blocks of the month.

Tuesday Treat

Sleeping boys - young and old...

Poor little Patric. He and his mom, brother, uncle and aunt went to watch the cousins ski. It must have been all that fresh air that got him so tired.

Playing with new toys sure can get tiring too. Luc is taking a nap at grand pere and grand mere's house.

Looks like grand pere got plum tuckered out having little ones visit. I guess little Patric has to find another person to play with.