Saturday night Autumn arrived and Sunday was the first full day of Autumn. But what happened to September? This has been a busy summer for me and I've not had much time to post.
The New Westminster Esplanade aka Quay was in full bloom this year as always.
Love seeing the Dahlias putting on their colour blooms arrive.
We has a lot of sunshine with some rain at times and the worst fire season ever.
A view thru the lobby window.
September brings our guild meetings again and my friend Ethel was once again a featured speaker. She was one of the early members of the Fraser Valley Quilters' Guild and also helped for the Canadian Quilters' Association. This is one of her first hand pieced quilts using cardboard templates.
I love the soft colours and the ghost blocks that you can see pieced in this lower photo.
This was a self portrait of Ethel, her family has a long English history of being warriors.
Some of her family lived on the North Shore which has some of the wealthiest people living in Canada. Her grandmother raised chickens and this story tells of them getting into the fermenting raspberries. Ethel was a former school teacher and made some mistakes in the printing of the story. She went back with her red pen and corrected them much to the horror of some of her guild members!
This is Ethel's version of Cheri Payne's free basket quilt. Ethel added a word each month. Sadly Cheri passed away this year but what a lovely tribute to her.
Japanese Anemone spotted along the quay.
Cyclamen but notice there are no leaves.
I love this tree, I don't know the name of it but check out the buds.
Which become these blossoms...but there's another surprise that will soon arrive.
The succulent jellyfish are so spectacular.
I added a bullion frog to my Sue Spargo piece.
Bought some bee inspired fabrics.
Couldn't pass up this colourful one.
Hard to see but the scissors have small bees on it/
I love these hexagon boxes.
After some stormy weather the skies cleared for some great views.
Looking west after taking the photo to the east.
RiverFest celebrating the Fraser River happened on Saturday and the work boats came out for a parade.
The surprise this year was this huge container ferry spewing water from it's canons.
This guy was having too much fun, they help to form the log booms.
They are very agile and almost unable to be tipped.
The honeysuckle smells so lovely.
Now the cyclamen has leaves.
Sunday I made a little sketch.
Then I enlarged it.
Then I sewed, and quilted it and voila a 6" mug rug!
Last night was the Harvest Moon, such a gorgeous sunset.
A wider shot.
Buildings to the east coloured by the sunset.
Older couple enjoying the sunset.
Flash picture of the rising moon.
No flash.
Looking west at the gathering colours deepening. Flash
No flash.
Catching the small tug helping the log boom navigating the bend in the river. Flash.
No flash, closer to the orange/yellow colour of the moon.
Block 10 of Simple Folk.
Block 11, needs some dots added.
Block 12 needs an eye.
1-9 photo shopped together.
4-12 all together. There will be a pieced alternate block that I've not chosen colours for yet with a nine patch corner stone.
The Grasshopper waiting for this month's birds to be added beside and below the flowers.
And that is about up to date.
5 comments:
You've had a lot going on. September has seemed to fly by as well as summer. Hopefully, fall will last for a while before the snowflakes make their appearances.
Great posts! I love every picture thanks
Good to see you posting again, this summer seemed to fly by.
I love that chicken quilt, so fun.
Debbie
I like Ethel's basket quilt with the addition of the words. So interesting.
You have such a talent for photography! I loved your friend Ethel’s quilt showing and boy have you made progress on on your projects! I have never seen the brightly colored bees 🐝. And the Henie boxes....swoon.... looking forward to seeing you!
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