August 30, 2024
If you are wondering why I’m doing another improv piece when I said I wouldn’t, I was working on the two cards in tandem. They are slightly different, but neither one is like the way it should have turned out.
Happy Birthday Ron
Emma
For our monthly sewing day in August this was my project.
I would have thought I had enough four patches and squares pre-made but that was not the case. I had a few larger four patches that I was able to trim down but for the majority of them I was starting from scratch. I had the small squares in my stash though so that gave me a head start. I’m re-thinking my scrappy projects; I’m trying to make them a bit more organized. I had the border strips on my cutting table from another project so I dug in my bins to get the red squares.
After everything was organized actually putting the project together was quite easy. The quilting is very simple – no thread colour changes involved.
While we were discussing each other’s projects I realized I had missed one project in my alphabetical listing so I guess that one (Carol) will be my next project.
Written as I Remember It
Author: Elsie Paul
I’ve know about this book for a long time and I’ve had it on my bookshelf for several months. I think I was putting off reading it because I thought it would be difficult.
Much of it was difficult to read and, at times, it made me very angry. The colonial treatment of our First Nations was horrible. It takes a very special group of indigenous people to forgive us for what was done but none of us should ever forget.
Elsie is in no way judgemental in the book. Her mother was a residential school survivor but from a young age Elsie was raised by her grandparents. Elsie is named after an aunt who was taken to residential school but when she became ill she was sent home and died only a few days later. Elsie spent two years in residential school but her grandparents moved to the bush whenever the scoops were taking place. They only returned to their village after the “quota” of children had been filled.
There is no way to rate this book. I’m going to leave it on my shelf with my other important books.
Happy Birthday Tracie
August 15, 2024
I’m definitely more of a “pattern girl” than improv but I thought I’d give it a try. It worked out okay but were I to do it again (and I won’t) there are things I’d do differently.
I was late getting this card in the mail but I hope it isn’t too late for Tracie to get some of those final summer rays.