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A new season .. is new. We welcome fall and I have to say it is my favorite season of the four. 

The brisk air today made me realize it is time to put 

                                        the sandals away. 
                            When I came home from work Gerald had made  

a fire and the coziness made me bring out

the knitting. Nothing complicated .. a cable scarf. 

My manager has a sweet grand-daughter and the focus in her room is 

"babushka" dolls. 

I was able to find an embroidery design for her quilt. 

                                               here is the center of the quilt 

                                                            Three little Babushkas

                                        here it is all finished.

I mentioned in an earlier post I had attended a workshop while I was in PEI to make the Serenity 11 purse, 

 it was a hit at the guild so a few members got together to make  one. They are all beautiful.

                          I changed the style a bit and made    

                                  this one from the Amelia pattern. 
So it will be back to the sewing room but also the knitting projects. 

Oh my!

I have really been off the radar as far as blogging goes... But I am never far from my sewing room. I managed to finish that mystery quilt for the Guild's challenge and it is off to the quilters to be hand quilted... Yea! As I mentioned before I can only post it in March after it has been revealed to the members for our open house. 

 Our parish church, Sacré- Coeur   needed a new banner and  

 I made this one 

 Here you see the back.. Jesus is love♥ 

I made the second Serenity Bag... 

Well the season is changing and it is time to close the pool. 

We try to prolong the summer evenings with a backyard gathering around the fire pit. S'Mores are roasting beautifully for everyone to enjoy!  

My favorite season is the fall and so I don't mind closing the summer. Everyone is back to school. Both daughters are school teacher and DIL as well and son is the IT- tech for Tri-County school board .

Here we have Laurène and Ariane ready for their first day back..

This is 

Miss Émilie's first year 

Here she is getting on the bus for the first time... Literally that is a big step for a little girl!

 Here she settling down in the classroom.. Her teacher? 

Tantie Yvelle♥

More of summer 2013

Some more beauties at the quilt show..

This one and the one below, belongs to Kaaren from 

http://thepaintedquilt.blogspot.ca

Absolutely G O R G E O U S

Yoyos!! This next one is very old and in perfect shape. When this family moved into a new house in 1942 they found this quilt in a trunk in their new home.

 

There is no tag on it to indicated just how old it is or by whom it was made. This is when I realize the importance of labeling my quilts, as they will be antiques some day   :(  

This next one certainly has the Acadian flavor

It is off to Ottawa.

And this one so scrappy..my taste.. 

I love it .. it was exquisitely hand quilted 

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And another one of those that makes one drool 

All hand appliqued and hand quilted.

There were many more beauties but I did not get to ask for  permission to post their work on my blog. Next year you will all have to come to see this work at its best ... "in person" . Attendance at the quilt show was amazing. We would have an average of 120 visitors a day. It was so much fun to chat with all these people . One noon hour I came home for lunch from the quilt show and hubby noticed I was quiet and not very talkative... I just responded I had talked to over 60 different people in the span of the morning . I was literally all talked out! He was amazed (LOL)  :)  

The quilt show will be featured in the Saltscape magazine. A few members of the Guilde Acadienne de Clare  were interviewed also.   

So when we hit the beaches and sand dunes of PEI 
I had lots to say. 

Grand-père and Miguel 

I told you we had a Tufts Family Reunion 

Here everyone is setting up for the family picnic. 

The girls, (sisters and sisters-in-law) entertained with a few songs.

There were some sad times as well. 

 Our parish Priest Pere Hyacinthe was transferred to a community in Gatineau Quebec. I gave him a quilt I had made as a parting gift . We miss him! 

 My to-do list for sewing  is growing and I look forward to the fall so we can get into a routine. The Fibre-Arts Festival in Amherst will soon be here and again this year my sister, Simone and friend Elaine will be going and will attend Karen Neary's workshop  yea! :)  This year in Amherst there will bean added attraction ..
 Mrs Pugley's Emporium  :)

Busy times? Oh yea!

But a fun busy.

Going back to July it started with the Tufts Family reunion which was a great success. The count for members of the family in attendance was 118. 


Then I move on to the quilt show. This is the yearly quilt show at the Sacred-Heart Church in Saulnierville, NS. 

The church was radiant with its array of colors .

What a fun week!

Over 200 quilts were registered and all of them deserved a blue ribbon. Someone asked me why we did not have judges to judge the quilts, my answer,"they are all deserving of the highest award".

Here is some eye candy of that event.

This gorgeous beauty was all hand made!  

All hand appliqued and hand quilted.. Absolutely gorgeous    

Another hand appliqué and hand quilted. Couldn't help but drool...

Here you see the hand quilting.. absolutely gorgeous.

This next one is a very special project  

made by my grand-daughter Laurène. This was her first quilt

made at the age of 12  and she was proud to display it but so was grand-mère. 

  

Next, I move on to... v a c a t i o n

The whole family went to PEI (Prince Edward Island)   

Here we have all the girls on a" girls night out"  ..

dinner and the play .. Anne of Green Gables

and here we are in the sand dunes of PEI

I took time to attend a workshop while on the Island at
 the Quilting B and More. A beautiful quilt shop  

where I made this bag ..

I also worked on my mystery quilt while at the cottage and it is coming along quite well . I can only post that one in March . It is a project of the guild, which will resume its meetings September 4 . Wow! how time flies. When we closed the doors in June it seemed like eternity before we were to meet again and here it is already in two weeks . The quild will extend its meeting hours, this year.  Every other Wednesday we will meet from 1:00 pm ( insread of 6:30pm) to 9:00 pm. There are lots of activites planned for this coming sewing season and I am looking forward  to getting the show on the road. Seeing all the members will be soooo exciting!   

It is nice to go on vacation but I enjoy coming home and I went right to town with the first on my agenda, my BOM.  

Here is block #4

I am really into bags

 I made this one from  fabric I bought from
 Mrs Pugsley's Emporium. http://mrspsamherst.blogspot.ca

and grand-daughter Laurène was the recipient of it as it is her favorite colors. 

I am having computer problems and I have all my photos on that computer which will not allow me to write anything on my blog`s post :( grrrrrr 

 I managed to get this post done on hubby`s computer but I would have lots more eye candy on the other one. Oh well at least I am back on the blogging scene. I have been able to keep up with most of the blogs I follow and I get the feeling I was not the only one busy this summer. It was nice to meet followers of my blog at the quilt show and hopefully I will be more dedicated to posting now that I am getting back to a routine, It is back to work for me Monday and after 3 weeks off I can say I could get use to staying at home. I have a date in mind for retirement and I think it will be OK. :)      

Saturday evening and all is well!

 I didn't have a big list this week... but lots of little interesting projects.

For our summer challenge at the guild we will be making two blocks for when we reconvene in September. I am not known to procrastinate ..... so mine are done.  

Blocks "Hugs and Kiss" will be used to make quilts for  the Mental Health Unit.

Also in September I will be doing a workshop for our Juniors quilters and so I decided to do the sample.  

2½" squares put together and hand quilted with Pearl Cotton makes for a cute cushion. I am certain it will be a big hit.

I haven't put my knitting away .. I guess because the weather has only been summer like in the last two days working with wool was not a problem.

I am making Crowl scarves ... I enjoy working on these when Gerald reads to me during our quiet time after dinner.

Speaking of reading I picked this book from my reading shelf ...

I call it "just for fun" reading . 

 

Today we had a Junior workshop at the guild ...

I know...  the guild is not meeting until September but we committed to doing two workshops for the Clare Recreation Department and this is the first one of the two.

15 new quilters on the horizon... made a raggy cushion. Two of our Juniors who are more advanced made beautiful pencil cases . It was a hot day but everyone had fun! The next workhop is August 17th.

  

Lots of events on my calender so I may not be sewing too much. I have my Bargello strips to sew together which is perfect to work on when time for sewing is limited..

One of the events on my calender is coming up in two weeks.

This year we are the organizers for the

Tufts family reunion.

 

Gerald and all his siblings.

The list.....

I have always known that lists work well for me so last week-end I decided to make a list of the projects I wanted to get done.

  1. Finish the machine embroidery quilt                         

  2. Finish the blue and yellow Bargello                          

3. Bind the Labryinth Quilt                                         

4. Make three labels for the finished quilts                 

          5.Cut another Bargello for DIL                                             

6. Make 4 blocks for the Guild's Mystery Quilt          

      

Machine embroidered and quilted.

 I started with just the white blocks and when I put them together I found the quilt was too light so I selected my favorite patchwork block the "pinwheel" in the "Northern Solitude" by Holly Taylor

Not only was it Quilt-as-you-go.... but design-as-you-go also. The embroidery design blocks have a "machine" quilt design to match .   

Blue/Yellow Bargello

  The Labryinth 

 The hand quilting by Linda Gaudett is absolutely gorgeous 

This is one of the labels done for the quilts

The Brown Bargello strips are all cut  and ready for sewing...

This is the mystery quilt I am making in the guild. It will only be revealed in March 2014 .

On to the guild news now...

We have ended our regular meetings for July and August but we did manage to finish a beautiful quilt for the Mental Health unit at the Yarmouth Hospital.  

Shown in the picture the members who did a fantastic job in hand quilting it

Sally, Clara, Irene and Lennie.

Now we focus our energy on the Quilt show... 

A wonderful event starting July 29th to August 2nd ♥

at the Sacred Heart  Parish Church Saulnierville NS

Hope everyone has a very Happy Canada Day.

Speaking of Canada Day....

Check out Karen Neary's blog for a new and exciting Canadian pattern coming out soon...