Hello and welcome to Thank Goodness it’s Finished Friday! Whether big or small, a long term project or a quick win, all finishes are welcome! First a few notes about me–I am retired, and while you might think that means more time to sew, between walking the dog and wrangling the family (husband and teenager), […]
I’m getting more stuff done around the house–I’ve started a project to scan all of my old files, like tax bills and important docs, slowly weeding the garden (two bucket time limit and I can’t carry with my left arm). Maybe I’ll vacuum? Crazy I know. So the butterfly has had fewer hours but progressing […]
Well, the healing of my collarbone continues and therefore the stitching on this butterfly project continues. I had not estimated the amount of floss needed (rookie mistake) and now that I’m starting to need to change skeins I am finding that my floss is old enough that the new skeins don’t quite match. The pattern […]
Through some very bad luck and the dog taking off after a squirrel, I broke my collarbone last Saturday. Three hours in emergency on the Saturday of a long weekend is not anyone’s idea of fun. Fortunately my left (non-dominant) side, so it didn’t take long for me to figure out that I could still […]
Today I am sharing my lap size Looking Glass quilt. Last year I joined Cheryl at Meadow Mist Deisns (and a few hundred or so other people) in using up our stashes. I already owned this pattern, and I had a stack of charm squares (5″ squares) that needed a home. I added the putty […]
Tis a tale of two ideas colliding into a project. Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs proposed a stash busting sew along, and you know I love to get inspired by sew alongs. And the second? A young relative is turning 18 soon and applying to universities, so of course he needs a handmade quilt. I […]
I’m finally done with this quilt! Adding borders to get it to twin size took a bit. In the end I defaulted to my favourite border to add the needed extra length, flying geese, but spaced with rectangles to reduce the number I needed to make. I made some mistakes (or unconscious creative choices) during […]
I tend to stall out on the quilting step. The biggest reason is that my machine is on the cutting table, so I can’t be in the middle of cutting out a project, either a quilt or a bag. I’ve been cutting a lot of scraps up into usable sizes, but I got sick of […]
Year of the Horse was the prompt from Project Quilting, and when I think of the Lunar or Chinese New Year, I think of food–going to a Chinese restaurant with the red and gold decorations and all the yummy treats. Back when I was working, the Diversity committee would sponsor a fundraising lunch, so I […]
I have a Scottish last name, but as far as the family genealogist can tell, we were just unimportant peasants who worked for lords, perhaps MacDonald or Campbell. My great great grandfather came to Canada in 1867 with his wife and 3 kids…we believe the wife had relatives nearby. The farm property is still in […]
Lisa in Port Hope 
