More for myself

I am writing this more for myself. If it helps someone , good!

I want to write about all the people that are very sick, the dying and the ones that passed. In my everyday work, I meet, treat and get to know a lot of those people. I want to help them sooo much but I can not. I am uncomfortable with most but then again I try to follow my guts, my heart when I deal with them. Trying to kid myself by saying I will get use to it, no more. No one can get use to any off what I see in the hospital. I am now more of the listener type. I do not try to convince it is going to be ok, I do not try to find comforting words, I mostly listen. And...the person actually tells me how I should act. Maybe not necessarily in words but you listen to someone not just with your ears!

When someone is dying, do not act like they are dead already or even worst do not act like they are fine. Just be... They are scared, so please do not be. They are the same person as before. Act like you did before.

Another snow storm

Again!

Like they say, what's new?

We got snow again with strong wind.

Barely made it to work this morning and it was worst coming back!

Rough night with my phone that never stopped ringing . Mike left around 3 in the morning...

He must be tired.

Spring should be here!

Have a good Sunday .

Finally sunshine

Sun!🌞☀️⛅️

Any sun we will take it.

Mike got a windshield for my ctx...

I haven't tried the bike yet. I told him not to install the windshield yet, I might not need it. They are talking about a very late spring. I do not know if I will be able to try the bike before the 9th of May!

There is so much snow!

Trying to put a picture of both windshield available for my bike.

Basting a quilt with q snap

Basting is probably for me the most annoying thing in quilt making and yet so important!

I have a probleme of space on my table, on the floor and the size of my quilt.

The quilt I want to baste is 90 inches square. I have a table yet smaller than the quilt and I wanted to use it with clamps but my clamps won't clamp because thickness of the table top to great.

On the floor with masking tape... The only space usable( big enough) is the living room but with wood flooring I do not want to mark it with pins scratches.

I looked on line for basting on q snap frame. There is mention of it but not much and often with quilt tack or tread, not pins.

I did use the q snap with tacks but what a lot of fun removing the tacks after....😣😩 and I had shifting and puckering of my backing. So no tacks.

Pins it will be and on the q snap.

So what I did first is find and mark center of backing, batting and top. Of course getting rid of wrinkles using best press if needed.

Put center of the sandwich in center of q snap. Help of another person nice but still feasible alone.

Make sure before pinning every layers is taut .

Then pin

Center is now done. Here picture of the underneath 

See no wrinkles.

Then shifting the quilt to pin the rest and voila!

Hope that works.

Happy quilting!

Renee

Still snowing, still quilting

What a boring blog, you guys might think.

Here I am talking to you about adventure, and the blog mostly talking about snow!

Well, if you missed it in previous blogs, the adventure starts on the 9th of May.

So right now the only thing going on is snow. And lots of it.

So I sew.

I will pin grand illusion today to get it ready for quilting.

Right now I am washing the backing. That thing was so wrinkled that I hope with the dryer to get rid of some of the wrinkles.

So it is snowing

Hubby was able to fall asleep.

Worked around the clock and might have to go out again before the morning.

Because it is snowing again,

Someone tell me, will it ever stop.

More snow on the way😭

Ok

I wonder if my biking trip should be a snow mobile trip!

We were pounded with 40 cm of snow! Come on we are in the middle of March . Give us a break.

Mike is working around the clock and had to put on hold the making of our luggage racks.

Mine will be a simple one, but still he needs time to do it.

Now I am certainly looking forward to May . Still a bit scared. 

Stay tuned.

Renee

Here it is!

Snowy, sewy days

Finally was able to complete beautiful quilt top.
I am making Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt, Grand Illusion!
Sorry for no pics yet😳
I have to learn how to put some in blog...

Travel

Hi!
I am starting this blog so who wishes to can follow me on my travel.
I will be travelling on my brand new motorcycle with my hubby trough all the usa and part of canada on a seven week trip.
So here it is first post.
I have to say that right now in New Brunswick one last blast of winter. It have been storming since this morning.
Hope that it is last storm.
So hope you are ready for our trip...
Renee

Travel

This will be where people who wants to can follow me on my trip