A Buddy Retreat , More Tops!

 The sewing group I joined when I first moved

to northern Alberta no longer meets but

we still manage a retreat each year. 

I took along the second hopscotch box

to work on.  There were about 1/3 of

blocks made up so I had a pleasant afternoon

stitching away on twosies to get it underway.

Then, I arrived at the edges. 

The original pattern shows a confetti like 

border but I wanted the blocks to flow 

into the border and appear to be floating. 

That meant the blocks touching the edge 

have to have the border fabric added. 

There were three choices for the border fabric. 

 Once again the winner was the one with

enough quantity!  It was going to be tight

but the math didn't lie. 

The winner was sliced up,

 

and all the edge blocks were modified to

 

flow into the border. 

Only a few snuck by without their border

partners, but they were soon altered. 

Tada!  Here it is in all its wonder. 

I am not sure if the center really floats but the 

thought was nice. 

The border fabric was the perfect amount!

Just a few scraps remaining!

Now I have 2 hopscotch tops to quilt! 

Onward to the pinning table!  I have more pins!

Stay safe and sew on!

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Mountain Rest Stop

 I took a small hiatus and hung out in the 

beautiful Alberta Rockies for the weekend.

My YS (youngest son) and his darling wife ran in the

 grizzly paw Mountain Trail Marathon.

1800 runners over 2 days at the 

Canmore Nordic center. 

We enjoyed fantastic weather, 

lots of camaraderie and the kids both 

finished well in their classes.

The Young Buck of the family actually 

ran all five legs of the marathon and finished 8th in his class,

so overachievement all the way around!

We managed to get it all four seasons in one weekend.

Saturday morning was cool and fall like.

Later in the morning it was still cool 

but beautiful like a spring morning.

Early afternoon was bright and sunny,

without too much heat for the runners,

The evening began to cool off 

with a tiny spit of rain by dinner time.

A perfect day for running through the woods.

The next day we awoke to.... Snow!

We walked thru the beautiful town of Canmore 

and had a delightful lunch at a café. 

Truly a wonderful vacation.

Now on to the stitching!

The cover is coming off and 

I'm going to start working

on decreasing my personal backlog.

First up will be that adorable little owl quilt.

Horizontal stitches across the quilt,

will run up to each of the owls.

The owls will be outlined and 

maybe accented with one line of echo quilting.

A nice complimentary binding and it should be done!

Happy Stitching!