Another tail

This year's Hallowe'en theme for my little grandsons is dinosaur. I have already made Luc a green and yellow tail.

This fleece helmet is the inspiration for little Patric's tail

The fabric really is a navy blue.

All done and ready to be sent.

But first, I have to make one more tail.

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

Today is our Thanksgiving. Our family turkey meal took place yesterday for both the meat eaters and the vegetarians (tofurky.) Lots to eat and special time spent with the two new members of the family.

Back at it

 Last night was the second night that the Champagne Quilters got together. Last week we tweeked the quilt top and sewed the extra rows together. I say tweeked because Ann was not happy with the placement of some of the blocks. It seemed that there were some strips in the log cabin where the same fabrics were touching. It didn't bother Marg and it didn't bother me but Ann insisted and so we spent time taking some blocks out and moving them. Not a big deal really.

 This is sort of where we left off in June/July. If you look at the third row in from the right, you will see that the top two blocks have two of the same fabrics touching.

Things got shifted and moved and this was the final layout.

Last night we added the first border. It's wider at the top and bottom since we wanted to add length. We only had a limited amount of this purple and that's why we couldn't make it as wide as we wanted to.

This is the outer border that we settled on last week but now that the first purple border is on, Marg thinks that we should have another purple border instead. She did find a darker purple but there isn't much of it and Ann didn't much like it. This will be given away to a charity and I'm sure someone will love it so I really don't see what all the haggling is about but there you have it. Marg is 87 this month and has all her faculties whereas Ann is 82 and has Alzheimers. She can get feisty at times.

On the home front:

I made some flannel washcloths. My son and daughter-in-law requested them.

The purple flannel was hemmed to be used as burp cloths and the others are bigger flannel blankets.

 I also sewed up a dinosaur tail for little Luc.

He has the main costume but needed a tail.

Now I have to make a navy blue one for little  Patric.

Quick - Crazy Quilt Basic Course

Kathy Shaw is offering her Crazy Quilt Basic Course once again. It's free but it fills up fast. Go here to sign up.You only have until the 12th of October.
http://www.shawkl.com/


It's a great course and Kathy is such a giving person. If you want to see what I accomplished in the last class, here it is.

It was a very good learning experience.

I had never worked with silk ribbon and found that it wasn't all that hard.

So, if you have ever wanted to learn crazy quilting, embroidery and silk ribbon, now is the time.

Baby Sewing

During the summer I had been sort of silent on the blog. It's not because I had nothing to blog about; it's because I had to keep my sewing secret. Since the little girls are here now, I will show you all of the things that I was working on.

You've seen these as I worked on them but here they are all finished.

The one on the left is a 'Care Bear' panel and believe it or not, the one on the right is...

 'Chair Bear.'

 There were two stroller blankets knitted.

Identical flannel blankets.

Change pads trimmed in my colour scheme for the twins - green and mauve.

And some burp cloths - otherwise known as spit-up cloths.

This is the cross stitch I made for the card. 

I made cards for my daughter when she had both Luc and Patric. They were both different.

Well, as you can see, I have been busy, busy this past summer.