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This is the place I try to make my creative visions match the physical world.. watch while I sometimes fail and sometimes succeed!

Friday, August 19, 2011

Camper Quilting

So it's been three weeks or so that we've been living in the camper in our friend's back yard in Fort Saint John, BC. We were hoping we'd find a place this week, with two applications into property management companies but no such luck - neither of them finished approving the application so I guess it will wait until next week.
In the meantime, I pulled out some fabrics and in my limited amount of space starting cutting fabric for a Christmas quilt with my baby go! I have a space about.. 18" square to work in, if I push my laptop to the other side of the table.


 Here is my helper, working hard! Casey has been enjoying her stay here, playing with our friends puppy every day. I'm not sure what she will do when we leave here! We might have to get her a playmate :)
The place we are hoping to get is expensive but it's only for around six months, when we hope to buy a place here and I can start working on the perfect sewing studio haha! Until that time, if we get the place we're hoping I'll have more space then I will know what to do with, as we don't have any furniture and this place is HUGE.. so big we'll probably only live on the top floor and the bottom floor will remain empty!

Monday, August 8, 2011

Some Oldies But Goodies!

This is a quilt my grandmother made for me when I was born. My grandmother in a lot of ways, is my quilting inspiration.


 You can see how she reused something else for the inside of the blanket.
This is a table cloth cover she crocheted. Again, she made one for each (female I think) grandchild (and there are plenty of us!)
 She made quilts for every grandchild. I loved my quilt (not this one) but unfortunately one of the fabrics completely frayed and ruined the quilt. I begged for another one and got this lovely, completely scrappy quilt.

Thank you Grandma!