Christmas card class with Bernie

 

My friend, Bernie and I are teaching a Christmas Card Class on Saturday, November 30th in the afternoon.  If you are local and interested in participating please get in touch with Bernie!!

It will be a fun afternoon and each person will leave with 4 beautiful Christmas cards!!  

Therese

Slow Stitching - cute little camper appliqued in bright fun colours

 I bought a set of fun little campers at a thrift store last year and after redoing my tracking system I found them and decided I should get them made up.  They were all in pieces with fusible on the back.  I had to add a few small pieces to them here and there.  This is the first one I have finished.  With all the pieces fused onto the 10" white squares it was easy to slow stitch all the way around all the pieces to keep them in place and to reduce the amount of fraying that will happen.  I expect this project was going to be machine stitched but I needed something to change up from the pink and green flowers I have been slow stitching for a quilt I will be making.  There are six complete ones so I ironed the pieces into place and will be working on them over the next while.  Therese

Sewing - fabrics I bought on vacation

I am just getting to blogging the fabrics I bought on vacation.  The little houses on the left is a half yard I bought in Outlook, Saskatchewan on our way back from Winnipeg.  It is called Broderick Gardens and Quilt Shop and you can find them here.  A well stocked shop with friendly and helpful staff.  They also carry a variety of crafting supplies - embroidery, beads, etc. I had seen these place before when we stopped at the COOP gas station but had never gone in.  It is always overwhelming to see so many beautiful fabric and I was on a timeline so I asked her if she had any fabric that said Saskatchewan - she showed me some with wheat fields - a bit too busy.  So I asked about fabric with houses.  This one was the second on she showed me and it was the one!!  

The other four I bought in PEI.  We visited several in a few towns along the way.  The numbers ones I bought in Montague - Quilting B and More.  They have two rooms of fabrics along with a wide variety of household goods.  The prices were good so I bought a yard of numbers fabric along with a yard of white cotton which we dyed with PEI dirt.  I made potholders as souvenirs of our trip and my sister managed to find PEI themed fabrics there in fat quarters which worked really well for her souvenirs. 

We visited Sew Blessed Quilters in Kensington, PEI.  You can find them here.  A full service quilt shop with a very large selection of fabrics.  I bought the brown batik (1yd) and the fern fabric (1yd) there in their discounted bin and my sister found several others she liked as well.  

We also visited Fabric Crafts and More in O'Leary,PEI.  It was a smaller shop with a yarn shop next door.  I bought a yard of the squares fabric there.  You can find them here. 

Very happy to have a stash of new fabrics to play with and a great souvenir of our trip.  Our seashells and several glass ornaments were our real souvenirs and the rest had to be consumables!!!

Therese