Grey Sunday morning but the cherry blossoms are in bloom.

It's another grey morning on the west coast the rain started up again this morning but the bright spot are the cherry blossoms in the courtyard.


The weeping trees are a deeper pink and they have a double blossom.


On Friday I received some more camera blocks this one is from Nancy Chan.


Beckie Stewart made this batik beauty.


Debbie Miller who owns the local quilt shop The Needle and I made this one.


Tricia Brown my twin eleven years and a day apart made this one. She also co-ordinated everyone who participated.


Sandi Bajcar chose to capture the lens as it was closing.


Lynne Fanthorpe made me this red camera.


And to finish off my first red flannel spool as a companion block to the wool calendar blocks. The next two are cut out and started to be stitched. Each spool block is a different size or sizes and colours.


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Heart swap, cameras and Spring is here!

Here is a photo of all the hearts I received from our latest Mary Lou Weidman yahoo group swap.

 We were told to use pinks and reds for the hearts and black and white fabrics that read more black than white.  Some people pieced their hearts with strata or some chose to use on fabric for both halves or two different fabrics.

 I love how all those blacks work together.

 I chose to make strata and used four different black and whites as background.

 I was on a roll and made several (10) extra that I've added to this second picture.  I just popped all the hearts up on a design wall to take a picture and now the fun begins to figure out how to put them all together.  I may add some more as I have a few partial blocks done and them will have some fun playing again with how to put them all together.

 On Monday at my wool group three friends turned up with more birthday camera blocks for me.  This first one is by my friend Debbie Matthews.

 Ethel Snow made three!  One for herself with some lovely words to enjoy.

 One for our friend Shona Kelly who moved from Canada to England to Australia and back to England.

 My friend Sandi Hill made this beauty for me.

 Ethel also made this one for my mom to sign...is that not so sweet.  My mom doesn't do the Internet so when I'm travelling Ethel relays messages for me and they have lovely chats together.

 Here is a grouping of the most recent blocks.

These join the others I received for my birthday here is a link to them.
This is a picture of three of the cherry trees in my courtyard this morning, they are a deeper plum pink rather than a soft pink.  I noticed yesterday that they are breaking out in bloom just in time for the first day of Spring.

 My view towards the river, love the three gents out for a brisk Spring walk and enjoying more cherry blossoms.  Welcome to Spring on the west coast of Canada, the day of my dad's birth.

Birthday surprise...

On Sunday I had dinner with ten friends and was surprised with some lovely quilt blocks they made for me. Today at guild some other friends added to the collection. I've not been told how many people were invited to make these blocks but the guidelines were to use bright colours. If you visit my blog very often you may have noticed I love photography and quilting and Tricia figured out a way to "Capture the Moment" for my special day. Hey, that just might be the quilt name when I get it together.


They were also asked to sign their blocks on the camera lens.


My friend Tricia who co-ordinator this swap and handed out instructions and the black and white background.


She set March 11 as the deadline to hand them in so I guess I have more to come.


Opps! I just noticed this one has one of the pieces flipped.


Here are four together.


The blocks are 9" x 11" unfinished.


I think this is going to be a lovely project. I just may have to make some photographs to add to the cameras. Thank you everyone who has participated in this project.
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