Challenge Project Reaveal

Here is my finished project reveal.  It is an odd size of about 18" x 20".  It is fused and machine appliqued in layers.

  I started on Monday and it was finished by Thursday, it is now at Lorna's Quilters' Dream Quilt Shop at 2726 West 38th Vancouver.  She will be open on Saturday for her annual sale and showing of the challenge quilts.  I'm planning on going and see what everyone else made the them this year was Texture, which I missed completely but my pebbling and Japanese rust silk obi fabrics helped qualify my piece nicely.

 Here I've place the moon and rust sky highlights and planning where to place the tree.  You can notice that the ground has a strip cut out of it as these were remnants that were kitted for our use.

 Here I've quilted the sky and given a curve to the ground which is pinned in place.

 A reverse look at the back of the quilt.

 A closer look at planning where the tree will go.

 Tree in place but needing to be quilted.

 The moon is made of two pieces a batik for the shaped piece and a woven Japanese fabric for the circle.

 Reverse side.

 Closer look at the tree and moon.

 I quilted the tree first and then did pebble effect for the ground.

 Here is my original sketch I did in October when I thought I'd add some pumpkins and notes of which fabric would go where.

 Yesterday afternoon we had a bit of a snowstorm.  I took these pictures and short video with my iPad. The snow was swirling around the courtyard and almost going sideways.

 Looking toward the river.

 To the gazebo.  It continued to snow and we have close to ten inches or so.

 I hope this works for you, it's a video I shot on my iPad.  I find it only seems to work on desktop not mobile devices.

Some Stitch and a Snowy Sunday.

I made my A Homespun Christmas piece into a pillow the design is by Cheri Payne. Cheri has a Facebook page called Quilts by Cheri~Friendship where you can join and get some of these patterns by clicking here to ask to join.

 I also made on of her Christmas Trees with round snowflakes and added a Crescent moon.

 Here is another of her snowman designs.

 Another one.

 And a head that was part of a pieced SNOW with the head to be the O and the rest pieced.

 I thought they looked cute in this Let It Snow box I got.

 My Buttermilk Basin Tree and Cheri's in the box.

 Then Cheri's in a Snowman basket.

 I woke up about 0630 on Sunday morning to see a dusting of snow in the courtyard.

 Then looking towards the river.

 Just before noon I went for a walk and saw snow and sleds on the Quay.

 One of two cross country skiers.  It was snowing during the walk.

 One of the many decorated condos along the Quay.

 Trees starting to be covered with snow.

 Five Robins in this tree.

  A bit closer look, you can see their red breast feathers are plumped up.

 Got a better picture of this one in another tree.

 Looking down the brick walkway with the snow coming down.

 These palms have been along the Quay since I moved here in 1988.

 Peeling Bark Maples looked pretty with the snow covering it.

 A view looking into my condo complex.

 Looking from the foyer across the now snow covered ice on our water feature towards the river.

 At about 3:30 I went for a second walk the snow carried on most of the day and it was blowing around with the wind.

 The cherry trees at the front looked very lacy covered with snow.

 Ice was forming in the river.

 One of the city maintenance workers with a John Deer mini bulldozer clearing the brick walkway.

 Snow was accumulating and we had between 4-6 inches.

 One of tugs out doing a job in this weather.

 The palms were getting very heavy with snow.

 One of the Peeling Bark Maples.

 This one looked so pretty and lacy.

I woke up about 6:30 to the sound of rain which was promised.  But there is another dusting of snow and we may get more but sunshine is expected by afternoon.  We will have to see how long it lasts.

Icy Crystals!

Yesterday morning I noticed that there was frost on the Plexiglas surround on my balcony.  I have a lattice work trellis that was framing some of the area and here are the pictures in the rising sun of it.

 This was at the side of the frame, quarter triangle very quilt inspired.

 It looked so pretty against the background of the snow and garden behind.

 This portion was more icy than crystal.

 The next panel looked like there had been drops of water and a spiderweb and hadn't yet caught any of the sunshine reflecting from the opposite side of the courtyard.  The snow and walkway can be seen.

 Then I realized that I could hardly hear the waterfall on the water feature.

 Here you can see the ice on the lower pond is both clear and white where some of the snow is gathered.

 There was barely a trickle of water coming down the spillway most has frozen.

 Clear blue skies for all of the day yesterday and again today.  We may get some snow again on the weekend with our temperatures dropping down to about -6C or lower and only reaching about zero or lower during the day.  Very atypical for us 6C is closer to normal for us.

 Here is the finished stitchery with stems and printing, I'm making it into a pillow.

 And the back, a few carry overs but very clean and neat.

 I also have a few more in the works also designed by Cheri Payne ready to be mini pillows.