Nov 18, 2016
Last weekend my Mother and I spent the long weekend (Remembrance Day) in Port Moody BC visiting my sister and her family. We left last Thursday and it was a beautiful sunny day, a perfect day for a ride on BC Ferries.
It wa
s a great weekend with lots of visiting, some shopping, watching movies, playing board games and doing a jigsaw puzzle. I did manage to hit up a couple of quilt stores while on the Mainland. One The Quilted Bear is in Ladner. It’s a cute little shop. I bought some cat fabric as I have been asked to make a charity quilt for a cat orphanage. I was looking for fabric with words on it however they didn’t have any. We also made it to Fabricana in Coquitlam but they also didn’t have fabric with words on it however I did find some beautiful purple fabric with butterflies on it.
Here are some selfies the first with my sister and I and the second with Mom included.
On the Sunday we had brunch with my older nephew and his partner at their place in New Westminster and later that day we drove out to Mission to have supper at my other nephew’s house. As you can see in the one picture I am soon to be a great-aunt. Yeah!! Looking forward to that happy event.
Mom and I came back home on Monday and we saw a whale surface off in the distance while we were travelling on the ferry home.
The only trouble with taking time off when you work for yourself is that the work is waiting for you when you get back home. That`s okay, at least it`s work I enjoy and I have finally got caught up and have some time to complete a blog post.
On the animal front Mia and Cocoa are getting used to each other and Mia seems to be feeling more at home here, she is getting more playful and her curious nature is sometimes getting the best of her.
In the picture to the right I had left the cupboard door open in the bathroom and had removed the basket where I keep my cleanser etc. She saw the gap and decided to investigate. She is getting more playful with Cocoa (I think) and likes to chase him up the stairs. The two can walk by one another without flinching now so that is a good thing and Mia has certainly figured out where the kitchen is and when meal time is.
I finished a client quilt yesterday, this one had a more modern twist. In my last post I showed some different options of what I was thinking about regarding how to quilt it. I finally settled on my first thought and this is how it turned out.
I quilted this with Sew Fine 50 thread in both the top and the bobbin and my client had supplied a wool batting.
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Nov 3, 2016
Whew, it’s been a week since I posted last. This is not great but in my defense I haven’t been all that well. I mentioned in an earlier post that I had hurt my hip while lifting my sewing machine to take it to a workshop. Well, it turns out I actually tore the muscle so several chiropractor sessions later and it’s finally feeling better. Today is the first day I can actually sit down for more than 30 minutes at a stretch. To top it off I was fighting a cold and then the wonderful rain we’ve been having has made life rather depressing.
However, today I seemed to have turned a corner. The sun is shining and it is beautiful and warm outside, the cold seems to have gone and as mentioned I can finally sit down at the computer without pain shooting through me. It’s amazing how many things we take for granted, like bending down to put on shoes, until you can’t do them anymore without it hurting.
I did manage to do the craft fair and it was OK, it was very slow but I managed to sell a few things so that is always a good thing.
On the cat front, Mia stopped eating so we ended up taking her to the vet today. She seems to be fine just too many changes in her life in a 30 day period. She seems to have perked up after the vet visit, and did finally eat something, after that she went and hid under the bed in the spare room. Cocoa couldn’t find her, he knew we had left with her and I had put him in the bedroom when we got home so as to keep her stress level down. Well he was going crazy looking everywhere for her when I finally let him out of the bedroom. When I realized what he was looking for I showed him where she was, he poked his head under (he can’t fit so she’s safe) saw where she was and then he was fine and left her alone. Go figure! Later in the day, he hopped up on the bed to get some sun and when Kevin came by to check on things this is what he found, Cocoa on one side and Mia came out from under the bed to join him in the sunshine.
Not exactly friends but not terrified of one another either.
On the quilting front, I managed to get all of my client quilts done and back to them. I have a new quilt that came in this week which is more modern in nature so I have it hanging over the quilting frame waiting for inspiration. I got an idea last night and managed to get a good photo of the quilt today so now I just have to draw out my idea and see if it looks as good on paper as in my head.
I also found time to do a bit of piecing. I could do that as long as I stood up to go to the ironing board, that way I was only sitting for a few minutes at a time and my hip didn’t get too sore. I started Jaybird Quilts Gravity quilt over a year ago now and got the blocks done but that was about it. Here is where it is sitting now.
I can’t wait to finish this one and start quilting it.
A good quote for me this past week.
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