Block 6, Cedar Canoe (available at Country Concessions in Cookstown) There are many famous (and not so famous) paintings and pictures of canoes in the water. A beached canoe can tell so many stories about exploring our amazing lake and river systems. Home after a day out paddling, ready to head out exploring or just […]
Block 5, Pine Tree and Block 7, Northern Lights (available at Simcoe Sew and Quilt in Barrie) Lonely majestic pines are as Canadian as…….I love the personalities they have and can only imagine the stories they could tell about their long vigils in some pretty inhospitable places. I think I have a favourite tree at […]
Block 4, Campfire (available at Elite Quilting in Barrie) Ahhh campfires! Nothing like sitting around the fire in the evening listening to the flames crackle and the kids and racoons fight over marshmallows. Once the mosquitoes go to bed you can relax and just enjoy the day’s end. One of the best things about summer […]
Block 2, Beach and Block 3, Loon (available at 3 Gals and a Quilt Shop in Huntsville) I spent a few years just outside of Huntsville at good old Camp Tawingo. Many fond memories! Tawingo introduced me to the great outdoors at the ripe old age of 8 years old. We had “tame” wildlife at […]
Block 1, Muskoka Chairs (available at Thimbles&Things in Orillia) What more says “Muskoka” than a pair of Muskoka chairs watching a sunset? I know my American friends call them Adirondack chairs but I think we had them first 🙂 When Sue at Thimbles&Things saw the first design she knew she had to have that block […]
I was thrilled to be asked to design the quilt for this year’s hop September 25-27. Thought you might like to see it and some of the background stories for my block choices….I will try to post them one a day, we’ll see if I can keep up. If you can’t join us on the […]
Way back last winter I was invited to do a design for a new line of Northcott fabric. Part of the Stonehenge collection, it was called “Earth Rhythms”. How could I resist? The fabric is finally being released in the next month or so and the patterns are now available with the new fabric shown […]
After the insanity of May here comes the busy-ness of June! I went to a wonderful little show in Renfrew, saw lots of old friends and made lots of new ones. I made up some kits of the more popular projects and still have a few left so I have added them to the web […]
Busy, busy week! Got a new sample made for a Block of the month I teach (details later), re-did some lettering for a second group of ladies that I join to play with crayons and finally finished two new patterns! Oh, and caught some Olympics action too! In honour of the Olympics, I had to […]
At around the same time I was finishing up the tree quilt design for “Old Friend, Northcott sent me another challenge. This one was right up my alley! ROCK fabric! They are introducing some new fabric in fall 2014 called Earth Rhythms and it’s gorgeous. Fabric-wide prints of rock agates in blues, browns and blacks, […]