Life is what happens

Isn't that what they say?  Life is what happens while we're busy making plans?  Something like that anyways.

I was so looking forward to our local Blackberry Festival - a week long celebration of this tasty little berry - and  planned out a few things to go see.  A quick trip to the island on Thursday, back on Friday no problem.  Wednesday morning we got the call we had been waiting on for many months.  My in-laws were accepted into an extended care facility and we finally had the date - August 22.  Wow - we really had to move fast.  Our trip lasted a few days longer while we started to sort through their apartment.  Over 60 years together and almost nothing thrown away.  My mother in-law had even kept a receipt for a dress she had bought in 1994!  So far the oldest we've found is the paperwork for a house sale in 1973.  We're back over next weekend to help settle them in to their new home and sort some more, and probably back a few times over the next month to clean out the apartment.  I can only imagine how hard it is on them to have to part with so many treasures.  They spent 16 years in Inuvik back in the 60's and have many, many wonderful carvings and artifacts made for them by their native friends.  Amazing.  Although a little apprehensive they are both looking forward to the move which is good.

I have been updating my store as well so I've been kept pretty busy with things other than quilting.  I am going to set aside a couple hours today to sew just to get life back into perspective!

Thanks for the welcome :)

Hi Alice and Nina, thank you for your welcome to Powell River :)

We are settling in quite nicely - and looking forward to the upcoming blackberry festival, at least I am! My sewing room is set up but the HQ16, table and frame are not. Once we have some of the reno's done on the new (to us) home we'll be setting up the whole system but that probably won't be until late fall.

Anyone interested in learning more about the HQ16 are welcome to email me at baileysquiltinghq@shaw.ca and I'd be happy to answer what questions I can. It's a great machine even though I've nick-named him Harry due to the many harried moments on the learning curve!

We've moved

After almost 12 years of living in the bustling, hectic, crazy busy lower mainland of BC we had the chance to move to to a much smaller town and we jumped at the chance. It's been in the works for a couple of months and now we're here in beautiful Powell River and loving the much slower pace, gorgeous scenery and friendly people. We've bought a house and will have possession of it in a few weeks so although my sewing room is up my quilting machine is not and won't be until renovations are done to build the quilting studio in our new home. We're renting a home on the beach for the summer and even though I do have some work I must (bad word) get busy doing learning to relax, walk on the beach and enjoy the sunsets has been our priority!


these are taken right from our front yard - that's Vancouver Island in the distance.

More quilty things to come. I have been feeling the urge to quilt these past few days and I want to share something called 'Kilometer Krazy' or 'Mile o' Minute' for those of us State side. It's a way to reduce your scraps - honest!!