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Many Canadian quilters are participating in Blogathon Canada from November 18-23, 2013. Blogathon Canada is hosted by a wonderful Canadian Quilt Shop in Toronto–Sew Sisters Quilt Shop.  I personally can speak to both the quality of the fabric and service provided by Sew Sisters as I placed my first order with them recently.

We are kicking off Blogaton Canada on the West Coast in the province of British Columbia.  Today’s blogs are hosted by Holly at Holly’s Red Bike in Vancouver.

Adventures in Life

What comes next?

Stacey in Stitches

CReate the PoinT

Quilting Fun

sew bossi

the zodiac quilter

aRt by Rhonda Forbes

there & back

Eclectic Gnome

Sit back and enjoy visiting my fellow Canadian Quilting bloggers!  Such talent!

Visit Sew Sisters’ blog page to link up with the links for this week.

We are puppy sitting our daughter and son-in-law’s dog this weekend.

Our daughter took this picture of Sarge just before they left home to come to our house.  Sarge is packed and ready to go!

BLACK STACK’N WHACK HEXAGON II

This is the second Stack’N Whack hexagon table topper that I made.  This top is now finished to the flimsy stage.  Refer to the blog post on January 13, 2013 for details.

I was inspired to take out a wool candle mat kit after our last quilt guild meeting and finish it.

During our March Quilt Guild meeting, we enjoyed a trunk show from Uschi Greiner of Wool Penny Rugs.

Pattern source:  Bareroots

Today was the annual Christmas lunch for our Tuesday Quilting Group.  Many years ago when my daughter was small and participating in Rhythmic Gymnastics on Tuesday nights, I joined a small local group of quilters.  I passed the time quilting with friends while my daughter spent her time with her friends at Gymnastics.  As quilters, we never gave ourselves a fancy name–we just called ourselves the Tuesday Night Quilters.  We always met at Dot’s house.  The friendships grew over the years and eventually all of the members of this group were retired (except for me) and not wanting to go out or drive so much in the evenings any more.  The group changed to a Tuesday Day Group and continued to meet at Dot’s house.  Although I don’t make it to the meetings any more because the girls meet during the day while I am at work, they still include me in the annual Christmas lunch/dinner.  This year, because we were meeting for our Christmas lunch just days after my birthday, the girls arranged for a birthday cake.   What a great way to spend a birthday–surrounded by quilting friends!