Thursday, September 25, 2014

Message for Janice in Ottawa

Hi Janice, Please email me...I have a question for you, OR if you are coming  to the Guild's Needle Arts Fair in Kingston on Oct 4...be sure to come to my booth and see me.
Balych@kos.net

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Diversity in beer

I got this far in my Christmas present for David and I have to admit to being tickled by the word within a word. What celebrating divers has to do with beer, I don't know but it gave me a laugh.

This of course it what it is supposed to say. There are numerous beer filled containers to be added and the WDW thread really does make it look like beer in the glasses.
This will make a companion piece to the other Ink Circles pattern featuring 99 bottles of beer, that I made for him a couple  of years ago.

Saturday, September 13, 2014

New finish, new start

So here is my latest finish. I am afraid that my rotation went out the window last week while I concentrated on finishing Paul's stocking.
Then of course today I started something new...just 1 new start Beth... And it too is a Christmas present. I will post a picture once I have more than a few stitches in it. So far it doesn't look like much.
Today is such a cold miserable rainy day though, I likely will move along on it.
Whether I will get back into rotation mode remains to be seen.

Kim and her husband came by on Thursday to pick up our quilt squares. I was kind of sad to see the go but it will be wonderful to see them again made up into quilts for this worthy cause.

Friday, September 5, 2014

How did I miss posting these???

These  two blocks were stitched by Beth and her daughter Heather for the Mountie quilt project...I somehow missed  posting them but here they are now...aren't they stunning?
I hope I did not neglect to show anyone else's work.


Thursday, September 4, 2014

Mountie quilt project

What am I ever going to blog about when we stop collecting these squares???
Well that is a problem for another day...Here is the latest batch stitched with love by generous needle workers....
From Teresa K from Brampton
From Teresa's friend Britta, who felt she had to do something for the project
From Darlene in Markham
A second square from Anita in Brighton
Fran, one of our Friday stitchers
Mary is also a Friday Stitcher
The two squares above came from members of the Quinte Needle Arts Guild
Tricia from the Cataraqui Needle Arts Guild Sent the sweet old fashioned lady and 8 quilted squares like the one above.

Everyone has been so generous with her time and talent for this very worthy cause. I understand from Sharon that Kim will be calling in to pick up the squares for her husband to take out west within the next few days. As she receives progress reports she promises to send them along so I can post them and we can all pick out our squares in the finished quilts.

Thank You all so very much










Tuesday, September 2, 2014

More quilt squares

Kim will be coming to pick up the completed blocks sometime in the next few days so I want to post pictures of the rest of the ones I have received from so many generous stitchers.
Anne C from Kingston
Jose from Kingston
Two copies of these adorable ducks from Mary Ann D also from Kingston
Another square from Jose
Clare's square. Clare is from Tottenham
Judie's block. Consecon.
Brenda from Belleville stitched this rose.
This amazing ink circles square came from Janice R from Ottawa. The colours used are all colours from Mountie uniforms and have special meanings.Itwas great meeting Janice last week at  Stitching Day.

The ladies who have been mentioned in these blog entries who are from Kingston are all members of the Cataraqui Guild of Needle Arts. THey have been extremely generous with their time and talent. Their annual Needle Arts Fair is at the Senior's Centre in Kingston on October 4 from 10 AM till 3 PM.

I have a few more to show in my next blog. Till then...thank you all.