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Suzanne Woods Fisher: Help me introduce The Keeper!

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Front row seat in Castalia on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada. This was taken off the deck of my friends summer home, Normally this water is smooth as glass.The actually date of the video is November 10,2010

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Trip arround the World quiilt

 I was in Montreal last week and I picked this lovely quilt up at ValueVillage for only $13.00 .

Jane Kirkpatrick is one of my favorite authors , she has this quote on her website .

From the author...

I've finished my latest manuscript with insights about the benefits of completion.  As Leonard Cohen wrote:  “ring the bells you still can ring / forget your perfect offering / everything has cracks / it’s how the light gets in.”  Let the light in to your day with my latest words of encouragement. 

    I think this can apply to us as quilters. We are always learning , though we can aim for perfection, we can never reach it . Beginners especially should not expect perfection on their very first project ,or even on their 2nd , or  3rd  project . Leave the mistakes , accept them, learn from them , say thank you  when complemented , don't point out your mistakes !

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Quilt tops and backings

I love the fabric that I found for the back of this quillt top.

I had another quilt top in mind to use this backing with , but I
thought that this went together amazingly well. Will choose something else for the backing for the other quilt top.

I really like this fabric , but I am not sure what quilt top I will
use it with yet.

Finally in the Frame

Yes, I can hardly believe it myself. This quilt is finally in the frame . Well it is over a year later than I had planned !But as they say better late than never and I hope to have it all quilted early in 2009.

Post 22 - October 11

I am so happy and here is the reason why. I now have all the flowers completed and sewed in rows for my quilt. I have 4 seams to sew and I will have all 9 rows of my quilt joined together .

Post 21- October 10

I spent a fair amount of time each on my blocks in the past few days . .After I replace a flower in row 4 -10 , I just have to sew the units together . Then after that there will be a few hexagons to place in various spots along the left and right borders. It feels to good to be this far along .

Post 20 - October 4

I haven't posted in a while but have still been working on my quilt. I am working on Row 9 .I had forgotten how much time it takes to add the paper and baste each individual hexagon before I can assemble them into rows. Each flower is made up of 7 hexagons , and I had to make 12 new ones plus some partial ones. Then of course are all the off white hexagons , over a 100 of those I think. Anyhow I may be a while, but I am working a bit most everyday on it .

post 19

I have been working on my quilt this week as much as I can . I now have row 3 sewed to row 4 . I have to make 2 partial blocks and one full block before I can start sewing row 5 to row 6 . The same for rows 7 and 8, and then I will have to assemble some more blocks for the 9th and final row .

Post 17

Although I have not posted in awhile I have been working on my quilts. I finally finished the baby quilt that I was working on .I was really pleased that it turned out so well . I am making progress on my Grandmothers Flower Garden. I had 8 rows all sewn together and then decided to make some changes . I am adding a block to each row so the quilt will have 9 rows across and 10 down. I have added the extra block to 4 of the rows so far. I also have to have a partial block to each row, alternating from the bottom to the top. You will understand this more clearly in a picture. So far I just have 2 complete rows sewn to each other. I have started sewing together the 3rd and 4th rows.

Post 16 - August 30

Today I worked on my blocks for the first time in a while. I was pleased to finally finish my 5th row of blocks .

Post 15 -

I have not worked on my Grand Mothers Flower garden since the last post these are pictures of two quilts tops that I have had for a while and finally got quilted. I also have the quilt top sewn that I was designing in my last post . #1 picture is for my niece Jessica for her second birthday .# 2 this shows the top I making for a friend who had a baby this spring . # 3 I made the top for this picture over fifteen years ago, it go packed away and just recently I put it out and decided to tie instead of quilting it .