Ah, back to almost normal...

After a very busy summer, I am almost back into the swing of work and sewing/quilting. The distractions were all great ones - an anniversary/graduation celebration and a wedding. But now it's time to get back 'real life'.

This small crazy quilt piece is my July BJP - before the beads are added. This has been an interesting process even thought I am REALLY far behind at this point. I haven't even started June or August and here it is Sept.

I was going to put off starting July - even though I knew exactly what I wanted to do because I didn't have June done - then I remembered Robin saying that there are no BJP police and I jumped the line...... I do know what I want for August and will prepare the base for that one in the next few days. All of the bases will be crazy patched, it's the embellishments and stories that will change.

This is also becoming an ever changing work in progress. Each time I think I have worked through all of the kinks something seems to happen and I am back to re-thinking. Right now I am back to trying to figure out if I want to be able to display these pages as one whole unit or do I want to display them as individual pieces? Initially, I had decided that I wanted to be able to hook them together into a 'whole quilt' using the borders as a form of sashing. The problem is finding a border that will suit the different color that I already have in mind.....and until I figure the single vs the whole out I can't finish the edges......a proverbial Catch 22.
The next blog will have some pix of the piece with some of the beading done and an explanation of the fabric/color choices......

It is with great pride that I introduce you to the beautiful Bride and the handsome Groom!!
I wrote in my previous blog about our daughter Katie getting married this summer. Here she is with her handsome husband Jimmy.
We couldn't be happier for them!!

Where has the summer gone??

In my last post I thought that I had life in hand - I didn't. What I thought were bruised ribs were actually broken ribs and from there an entire new set of problems arose. But all is finally well and I'm back to about as normal as life gets.....



Since that last post I attended the Vermont Quilt Festival.www.vqf.org. This is an annual trek for me - some people go camping I go to Vermont. The show was as wonderful as usual and the time away was rejuvenating.



Once I was back it was time to get into the serious work of having a large party to celebrate our 25th Anniversary. Since our two children had also just graduated from their respective universities we decided that we would celebrate that event as well. Katie received her Honors B.Sc from Western here in Ontario and Mike received his BA from TRU in BC. Whew!! The icing on the cake was the upcoming nuptials of our daughter Katie to Jimmy McLean. Talk about a month of events. All went well and we all had a lot of fun!!

The picture of Katie and Jimmy will appear in the next blog as I am having trouble figuring some of this blogger stuff out.

I am also going to post my BJP in another blog as it too is in another form....this techie stuff is great when you get it but the learning curve can be steep for us non-techies.....

Be right back