Happy New Year to one and all! We wish you a year full of aloha and prosperity! As 2024 rolls in, Sue has created a wonderful watercolor calendar for you all, full of nostalgia and whimsy as teddy bears frolic throughout the year. This year, Sue has created corresponding embroidery patterns to go with each month’s illustration. Digital downloads of…
Have you got a crowd coming for Thanksgiving dinner? Let your guests know where to be seated with these pretty printable Thanksgiving place cards available for free in my shop as my Thanksgiving gift to all of you. I found these cute little card holders at Michaels: ere are the mini clip boards with the…
It may seem a little late to be posting about a calendar for 2023 since we’re already almost 3 months into 2023. But getting this together for you took me longer than I expected. I started to work on the watercolors for each month in August of 2022.As mentioned in the post called Pattern Sale with a Purpose, I suffered…
Dear readers, You may have noticed that Sue hasn’t posted in a while. Our family has been trying to cope with multiple tragedies since the end of 2021. On December 21, 2021, Sue’s daughter, mentioned here on the blog as DD2, passed away in a car accident on her commute to work. She leaves behind her partner, young son, mother,…
Happy Monday! With fruit canning season in full swing here in southwestern Ontario, I thought this week would be a good time to share this vintage Workbasket embroidery pattern for a variety of summer fruits. Cherry season has passed and they’re kind of pricey to buy enough to can anyway but I’m planning to get a case each of pears…
Since today is Family Day here in Ontario (as well as in Alberta and Saskatchewan,) I decided to get a little creative with this week’s vintage embroidery pattern. In my best handwriting, I wrote out the words Family and ‘Ohana (Hawaiian for Family) and then I used the flowers from this vintage Workbasket alphabet to create two pretty motifs to celebrate this day dedicated…
I’m so excited to share my version of September’s blocks for the In Our Garden BOM. This month’s designer was Pat Broe from Life in the Scrapatch. Isn’t that the perfect title for a blog about quilting! This month’s applique block is all about North America’s favorite fall fruit… the pumpkin. You may have seen an in progress shot @supermomnocape…
33 years ago today, Dave and I were married in a Friday evening ceremony in the chapel on Camp Wainwright (now known as Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.) Happy Anniversary Dave! I can remember thinking as I walked down the aisle after exchanging vows that I was the luckiest girl in the world. And now 33 years later… I know just…
I had so much planned for the first two weeks of the new year and yet here we are half way through week three and I have so much to catch up on. I had a horrible after Christmas cold and lingering cough that has zapped my energy levels. I get as much done around the house as I can…
Ohhhhh… I had such fun yesterday meeting my Santa Sack Swap partner Debbie! We met at Cora’s for a late brunch and didn’t leave until after 1 pm. We just found so much to talk about. Debbie is such a sweet person. I even got to meet her lovely daughter, V who had come along to keep her mother company…
