Quilts of 2020

 It's been another creative year in my studio!

Everything that you can make with fabric...I will try!

All the wallets have been gifted..

The stockings were hung....

The Advent quilt from Border Creek Station was displayed...

The Border Creek Station Quilt Along was finished

Participated in a Facebook Quiltalong

 with

 Gudrun Erla of GE Designs

Elvira aka Quarantine Quilt

A couple of feathers using the same yardage strategically placed

Tried my hand at a modern quilt....

Eidos by Modern Quilters Guild

Made my version of Caryn King's Chicken...

Pattern tested for Tarlee Quiltery...

Brilliant

A few bags from Emmaline

A jellyroll rug out of Farm Sweet Farm fabric

Lady Diana for the Cherrywood Challenge 2020-2021

Gone Camping by Coach House Designs

My version of a cat I saw at Houston Quilt Festival one year.

Another Emmaline bag as a class with my friend Trudi

A wholecloth quilt with a backing from Northcott called Whispering Pines

My Trendtex challenge 2020 for Canadian Quilters Association

A little Zebra kit using some backing fabrics

This Judy Neimeyer star... 

It's supposed to be Ice Castles but something went wrong.

Still in this state as it did not go where I wanted it to.

Aztec Skies by Taralee Quiltery

Antelope Canyon in Full color

2020 was a very strange year.

We managed to not contract Covid so far...

However I am pretty sure I already had it in November 2019.

I have asthma and chalked up my inability to breathe to that.

We went to Vegas and by the last day I asked if they could push me in a wheel chair.

I could not keep up.

I had many moments that I thought I was going to be found dead by my family.

I started to inform my family where my inhalers were at all times.

I even started to write up a will as to what my family should do with all my 'stuff''

Our youngest made me go to the dr and had x-rays, 

Something was going on in my left lung.

I was put on a nebulizer with some drugs for quite a few weeks.

I have been wheezy ever since then but feel like I will live now.

Was never tested for Covid... wish there was a test to tell you if you had it.

It doesn't matter at this point.

2021....be good to us...please!

I miss travelling, hanging with my quilting buddies, and my family.

I miss hugs.

So sick of elbow pumps.

Until the world returns to normal...

I will be in my sewing room stitching up a few more thing!

Auld Lang Syne,

Christa

Three Dudes Quilt in Missouri Star Style

I have been chomping at the bit to do something

 with

 these new strip sets we just brought in.

The colors in this set are so striking with some black yardage.

 

I knew exactly what I was going to do with them.

The Three Dudes Quilt Shop in Arizona originally made this pattern

but

Jenny Doan of Missouri Star 

and

 The Man Quilter - Rob Appell

Made a video to demonstrate just how easy it really is!!

Just click on the video about to get the pattern. 

I quickly cracked this pack of strips 

and 

began arranging in to sets of dark and lights. 

Sewed them together and cut them to size to be resewn together.

It gives you a couple of colorways for each set.

They are stacked in opposite directions and sewn together

And cut again diagonally in both directions.

Simple...Then you have a mess of blocks to play with.

Actually I had started on my design floor

but

The grandpup is over and he is a galooop.

A tank on 4 legs......

Bull in a china shop....

You get the idea!

The grandkids can't come over in lockdown

but 

no rules around pooches.

This has forced me to FINALLY put up my design WALL

The possibilities are endless!!

I will be here a while...

as I decide placement of these blocks.

To be continued....

Christa 

Rue 1800 by 3 Sisters

Speaking of roads...

 The road is long for my package from sister...

She only lives in Calgary

 but

 this package has some serious air miles!

She mailed one box for my parents 

and

 one for my family on November 29,2020

(at least its still the same year)

Mom got theirs in about 5 days...

Mine?? It's taking the long road home.

It has been to 10 different stops, twice to the each province

Tannis says it's on the move again!

Hoping the glass that was in this box is not shattered at this point!

The teller put the wrong postal code in the computer

so

 not sure if it will ever arrive till someone reads the real address!

Oh well...

I am not going anywhere!

I stumbled on this picture in my phone today.

These were the shelves at our Walmart in April.

Seems like years ago and still unbelievable really.

Who ever thought we would experience hoarding for fear of missing out.

I didn't hoard toilet paper,flour or yeast...

We live on the farm....we are always stocked for any emergency!

But I did buy this kit of Rue 1800 by 3 Sisters 

when

 the lockdown began.

I finished in the Fall but haven't quilted it yet.

It is pretty muted 

so some quilting could really give it some life.

I need to thank my friend, Peggy for her tip on how to keep an ironing board clean.

She suggested to cut waxed butcher paper to fit your board and press it in place.

Just change when it gets too used.

I swear my blocks are so much flatter!!

What a great tip!!

I can't believe where this year has gone.

It's only 6-8 weeks before these little cuties start to arrive again...

This little tyke turned out to be the cutest heifer

She was a keeper!

Where the heck do the days go??

I have to thank everyone for their kind words on reading my blog...

I also realize I am writing to a trapped audience!lol

Glad to hear you have been entertained!

Christa