
I am so well cared for! First my daughter brings yarn for me to crochet (see post on Isolation Crochet) and then this care package from my dear quilting friend arrives in the mail. She couldn't bare me not having a quilt to work on.
Rob and I normally spend most of our year in Central America doing volunteer work. This has been the case for 8 years, so we no longer maintain a home in Ontario. When home for about two months at a time, we stay with family and my sewing room is at my moms.
Well enter Covid-19 and thus we exited CA to be home for various reasons. Due to isolation and social distancing my family very graciously set up a travel trailer for us to live in until things change.
My mom is 91 so no one goes in her house, so no access to my sewing! With not much room in a trailer, my sweet hubby shifted a few things around, my daughter lent me her machine and I have my happy place.

Package of gorgeous fabrics.

Box contained, 27 fat quarters, only need 20 but Esther wanted me to have choice, thread, pattern, fabric for lattice and borders!

Final selection

Let the cutting begin!

Kitchen table in the trailer serves as my cutting table. Seats along the one side hold box of fabric and my yarn for my afghan. If you look close you will see my supply of snacks behind on shelf!

Ironing, ironing and more ironing

All cut and ready to sew!

My new sewing room!


Notice the afghan under construction in the corner. Boxes of supplies, iron and small tabletop ironing board stored underneath.




80 of top unit, 20 each of other two to make 20 blocks in total

Two main block sections pinned and ready to be stitched. I tried to mix them up to give good fabric variation in each block. Although not perfect, I am happy with final selection.

All 25 blocks stitched and pressed. Before adding the sashes I have to decide whether to do traditional construction for quilting or do quilt as you go.
Seeing this is being done in a small space, I am really leaning toward quilt as you go perhaps doing primitive stitches.

Blocks laid out on my mother's spare bed. I switched them around many times to get a layout I was happy with.

Using various shades of brown to beige embroidery floss for quilting.

Using a double bed as my base to quilt from. Not using a hoop or frame as basting stitches have layers flat and firmly held together.

Diagonal rows

Few pins to help guild my stitching row.

Photo shoot in beautiful Kincardine Ontario park!



My completed COVID-19 quilt!