Happy New Year

Hope you all had a great Christmas with family and friends. We had my husband's family here Christmas Day, all 20 of us, including the newest addition, our 6 month old great nephew. The next day we were at my sister's where we did our annual handmade gift exchange, this year it was tree ornaments.

Here are some of the ornaments we exchanged...

This winter has been very cold, -30 celcious has not been unusual! I'm not a great cook but this has been a soup making winter.

I have sewn a lap quilt top using Amy Butler fabric

And a wallhanging using solid fabrics

I got a nice surprise of beautiful gerbera daisies from my husband which helped warm up the cold days.

Fun times at gimli quilt retreat

It's already been a month since our quilt retreat in Gimli, Manitoba! We had a really great time, I think there were 25 of us, celebrating 20 years of quilting together! The weather was pretty good, it was quite windy but I managed 3 little walks along the beach to collect beach glass.

These are some photos of the beach and harbour area...

The women who organized this years weekend put together some pretty amazing prizes, including a collection of batik fat quarters, which I won!

Here are some fantastic women and their beautiful quilts!

Felted wool projects

As it starts to get colder, I like to get some felted wool projects ready to work on in the winter. I like to do blanket stitching will I watch cheesy shows like American Idol on TV.

I've wanted to make a wallhanging of our house for quite awhile so I finally designed this one that I will work on this winter.

I've also been having lots of fun making these felt pins with my scraps.

It started off with two and has been growing!

These are what I have made so far! Wish I could rotate this photo but I don't know how!

Summer fair entries

This August it was time to enter some items again in the St. Vital Agricultural Fair. My friend Mona came in from Vancouver, again and my niece and nephews and even my mom entered for the first time. We all won some ribbons and a little cash.

My felted wool wallhanging won a third place ribbon.

Mona's quilted wall hanging got a second.

My mosaic won a third place.

My mom's pillow won a third place.

I won first place for this photo, taken near Climax, Saskatchewan.

I won a first place for this photo I took of my peonies in my backyard.

My niece won second prize for her watercolour.

My nephews won some ribbons for their drawings!