Turtle Time!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

"Sew".....I think I may finally have life under control again and be able to start crafting a bit more regularly again and that will likely be GREAT for my mental health.  

Over the past 8 months I have lived in FAST FORWARD.  I have purged, packed, purged some more, staged my house, sold my house, packed and purged, moved, unpacked, purged and in that time written and passed successfully TWO national re-certification tests for work.  Every ten years both exams fall in the same year ☺

Friday after my exam I was draaaaaaiiiiiiiinnnnnnned.  I may have actually slept more than 6 hours last night for the first time in several months.

Today I had scheduled to attend a Collage Quilt Class at the Fort Saskatchewan Quilt Guild with the purpose of finishing a collage quilt that I started last spring when there was only a little bit of chaos in my life.  Finding the quilt proved harder than it should have been because back in July when I packed my collage stuff I put all my collage stuff with the Christmas decorations because the class was scheduled for the weekend I would decorate my tree.  Except,.....I may have changed up my Christmas Tree and did not take out the decorations.

"Sew" like a typical Kathy thing......I showed up late after finding my collage.

Here is the progress I made today:

Kitty approves "sew" I know it must be a good quilt.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

GO Day

Good Late Evening Internet Friends!

Today was finally a GO Day for us.  We were up early (okay 0900 hours) but it is Spring Break Week.  Household chores and lunch and then off to the mall to shop for a teenage boy who has out grown all his clothes.  Getting a teenager (even mine) to the store is a feat and finding clothes is another.

As of now I can report that a new pair of Nike sneakers was obtained along with 12 pairs of Nike socks (buy one pack get second pack 50% - could not leave that behind).  Then it was on the Hudson's Bay where thankfully Levi's jeans were on sale and there was a good selection of tops that my son would actually wear.

Next it was on to Evoolution to pick up some flavoured olive oils.  I am all out.  I also wanted to pick up a bottle for a friend as I ran short on Steam a Seam so she cut me a meter from her box!  I was very grateful and since she likes to cook (and makes wonderful soups) I thought this would be a nice treat and something she would not have:

I got a bottle of Garlic infused Olive Oil for her (everyone loves garlic) and also picked up the staple flavours for our house - dill, and butter along with truffle salt that tastes fabulous on popcorn and well just about anything.

This evening after dinner and with my meter of Steam a Seam I set about finishing my Seawell the Turtle:

Placed on his background ocean (or swamp as my son calls it - too much algae):

A close up of the eye:

I did a Google check on Turtle Eyes and was "creeped out" by what I saw so I gave up and decided to use my bubble batik fabric to make the eye.  He looks like a sleepy turtle and I am okay with that!

Tomorrow I will fuse Turtle together permanently and then start to work on the background!  I have BIG plans for this turtle.  🐢🏡

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Just Keep Swimming....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Today was another sort of lazy day "sew" not a whole lot of anything accomplished other than I did have my afternoon nap 😸😺

After dinner I played with my collage again and here is what I managed to complete:

Will try to start on the head and finish the "grout" on the shells tomorrow...

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

"Sew" Much Fun!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

It was Collage Class Day today at Purple Katz!!!  A road trip was involved "sew" that made me happy as well.

Here is my progress for today:

Seawell is doing swimmingly in his new ocean 😁.  I found this batik fabric when I picked up my kit at Purple Katz the other day and thought it made the perfect ocean background.  

Using batik fabrics has been a huge leap for me because up until recently I had not used batiks.  The reason largely being that I had not used them and when I pointed out a more experienced quilter than I that her points were really off on her blocks she informed me that batik fabrics stretch and if I knew more about quilting I would know this......well...now that I have used batiks for the Wedding Ring Quilt and this collage quilt I am excited to use batiks!!! (and batik fabrics do not stretch......shhhhhh).

I am hoping to get some serious progress made on this quilt this week and then show you what I have planned for him.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Like a Herd of Turtles Across a Summer Fallow Field...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

"Sew" my Seawell Turtle Collage Class at Purple Katz is tomorrow and here is my progress for today:

I traced a Turtle.....Kitty approves "sew" we are good!  Now to get ready for class tomorrow. 🚗  I am literally moving on this project like a herd of turtles across a summer fallow field (an expression my family used when as children we were not moving quick enough).  ☺

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Cut!!!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Well, after a busy day of I am not sure exactly what other than "Oh, look, I should do that" and then getting distracted I decided to start on my Quilting Class for this weekend.

I have been wanting to make one of the many Collage Quilts by Laura Heine.  On my one of my cross border shopping trips I had the opportunity to stop at her shop and see some of these quilts and immediately wanted to make one.

Fast forward to this weekend when finally all things lined up so that I could attend the Collage Class at Purple Katz Quilting.

I have chosen to make Seawell The Turtle.  This evening I started to cut out the collage pieces but realized I have NO idea what I am doing, so I am going to stop here and wait for class. 

TAH DAH!

I think this is going to be "sew" much fun and there is a brilliant idea for this quilt in my head and a plan as to where this quilt will go that I cannot wait (but will have to) share with you.  

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy