A Wonky Bits Day

 First I have to show you that my 1st PhD Challenge Project is DONE!!! Yahoo!!! FINALLY!!! Only 5 more to get done by the end of June!!! Yikes! 8-)

"Holly Jolly" Quilt

Disappearing 9-Patch

Leftovers/pieced backing...

Now for some Wonky Bits Show & Tell

Pd finished her 6 Oriental fabric place-mats, and is working on at table runner to go with it...

 Lp made a pair of pillowcases with scraps from a
Hexagon Quilt she is making for her bed...

Lp's wonderful Springy table topper...

Kn's Knit made from some very interesting yarns...

Front

Back

Kn's finished quilt. Click on the photo to see how the quilting looks in the border. She used a variegated  thread... Love the effect...

Hope you all had a great Thursday!

Myra

PhD Binding & Laundry Days...

 Seems I just get caught up with laundry, and it is time to do it again... Getting very uninterested in doing the laundry... Cheap disposable clothes would be nice for a change... LOL!!

That is what I was up to yesterday, and will continue again today... OH JOY!!!

Laundry and doing the binding on a PhD...

 I got quite a bit of the binding done yesterday, so I am hopeful to get it all done up today so that I can post it as "DONE" on the PhD Blog later... Then it will be a mad dash to get the others done before the end of June... Nothing like leaving them till the end of the challenge!!! LOL! But that is how I do things! Always last minute, under pressure... 8-)

Our Easter Brunch set out on Sunday...

 The family, minus me in photo, 

and minus Mr & Mrs Farmer (Wisconsin)...

Little Momma to be, in back on right...

 No one ever thinks to pick up my camera to take photos unless I ask them to, so it always looks like I wasn't there... 8-(

This is DH's friend Daryl's new toy. 

He dropped by on Sunday to show it off...

We've been having lovely weather here! Temps in the double digits (C)... It is nice to be able to sit outside and enjoy a cup of coffee... 8-)

Have a great week everyone!

Myra

Baby Sweater Knitted...

... and all it needs are buttons and a baby! 8-)

On to my next baby project... and my PhDs! 8-)

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Anyone ever hear of the Peek-a-Boo Block? 

Carrie has a small tutorial of it on her blog. 

Go check it out!

Anyone need great applique instruction? Have a visit here! Erin, of blog "One Piece at a Time",  has wonderful tutorial of her methods, and has the BOM "My Tweets" going on right now!!

 Myra

An Easter Card for You! 8-)

Home from the retreat...

We had another wonderful weekend of food, laughs, and stitching...and sleep! A few of us really love the mattresses at this cottage! 8-)

 Here we have the workshop area...

 Cutting table along with a peek
of the mealtime table.

 Loft with some wonderful WIPs...

 Added WIPs later in the evening.
The 2 at right & 1 below are PhD items...

 The snow "WAS" all gone, but Friday night
it started coming down...

 ... and Saturday morning all was covered & sitting in the trees... It all looked lovely & peaceful...

One friend was working on her BH Mystery...

One was machine embroidering horse heads for a quilt for
a relative...

She was also working on
this piece...

 This is a donation quilt in the making by another friend...

A young mom that works at the camp where we rented the cottage, came by to show us the quilts her mother had made for her 3 children... 

They are adorable...

Here we went for a walk to see the camp's horses...

Notice the snow was all gone AGAIN?! 8-)

It was cold out though...

I'm so proud of the progress I am making on the baby sweater!!! First time following a pattern!! Making the hood just now... 8-)

Guess what? I'm getting excited at the prospect of becoming a grandma... It takes me a while to adjust with life's changes... 8-)

Have a great week everyone!

Now to get caught up on some visits!

Myra

Gone for another retreat....

 Yup! It is that time again!!! 

Another small retreat weekend...

 Hope you all have a wonderful,
productive, and safe weekend!
Will share my weekend with you all
on Tuesday sometime... 8-)

Myra

Popping in...

 Still alive, but not spending much time in front of the computer at all lately, thus infrequent posting, and blog visiting/hopping... 8-(

The gals at my quilt group have been busy making scarves with this new  Frill Seeker acrylic yarn by Estelle... There is about 8 of us busy with it, in all different colors...

Here Jr is working with it...

 Halfway done...

My stop at the Yarn Shop got me these, 

and I've already finished one up! 

The blue one is for friend Barb...

My finished creation 

modeled for you...

On the quilting front, I went to Barb's Shop to rent the quilt frame set up again for another PhD project... Once we figured out some skipped stitches and thread breakage problems, 

it was smooth sailing... 8-)

I am hoping to finish up the binding on it at another quilt retreat this coming weekend... 8-)

Here, front and back of a "for Baby" 

Crochet Book I recently bought...

 

 I was looking for a book of simple baby knitting, but couldn't find what I liked... yet... and thought that I may be able to create a couple of these cute projects for my expected grand-baby... 8-)

Spring has definitely sprung here! The snow is almost all gone now, though it is still quite wet out when walking the fur-girls... 

We are also experiencing/expecting, more of our rivers to flood in our city/province, so sandbagging is in full swing. We ourselves will not be affected...

Hope you are all keeping well!

Myra