Finished Just In Time For Halloween

I completed this Halloween quilt the other day. It's made up of odds and ends of Halloween fabric that I had in my stash. There wasn't a pattern for it, I alternated a Pinwheel block with a Four-Patch block. This one will go on the back of the couch for the rest of October.

Placemats By Linda H.

Linda recently made these lovely batik placemats and matching potholders. This is what Linda said about them, "The idea for the place mats came from Sunday Brunch by Susan Purney Mark in a McCall's Quilting magazine called America Loves Scrap Quilts Winter 2011/2012. I am making use of my huge collection of older magazines and books and also my getting older collection of batiks. The potholders were not featured in the pattern but I didn't want to waste the trimmings left from making the place mats."

I Received A Beautiful Gift

My friend, Doreen Kelley crocheted this beautiful blanket for me. Last year, I had given her a set of Yukon Tartan coasters that I bought at a gift shop in Whitehorse. Doreen is interested in tartans and had designed one for the town where we live. She examined the coasters and figured out the thread count, colours and design, then proceeded to make a blanket. It's a combination of crochet and weaving. It says on the description of the tartan, "Each colour reflects our unique territory. Light blue symbolizes lakes, skies and rivers. Purple is for the mountains. Magenta, the fireweed. Green, the forest. Solid yellow, the midnight sun and broken yellow, the Klondike gold. The original tartan design was by Janet Couture in 1984." We go to our cabin in the Yukon every summer, so this blanket is really special to me, I absolutely love it!

A Small Quilt Top

I made these blocks into a small quilt top. I had reached my limit of leftover pieces and scraps, so this is how big it's going to be. It will be a good size for a lap quilt to donate.

A Few Blocks

We only have a few more weeks here at the off-grid cabin in the Yukon. I finished the quilt top I was working on, so now I'm sewing some blocks from leftover pieces that i had cut. These ones will probably turn into a donation quilt at some point.

Quilt Top Is Finished

After much picking out and rearranging, this quilt top is done. I kept finding blocks that I didn't like, so I changed them. I'll will give it a good press with a steam iron when I get back home. All I have at the cabin is a little travel iron. Now I have nothing left to sew, maybe I'll make some blocks from odds and ends.

Garage Sale Find

I went to a garage sale recently and found this sewing supply box for five bucks. It comes in handy at the cabin because I don't have any drawers, shelves or cupboards in my little sewing corner. I had to buy a Rubbermaid bin for the scrap fabric and stash it under the cabin. Now the area looks a little tidier.