My new Sling Bag

For the longest time I wanted to make the sling bag, a pattern by Amy Butler. I finished the last stitch at midnight and it's packed with my tour guide for London UK. I am leaving in a few hours and first I  will visit my mom in Germany . London calling a few days later for a girl's weekend and we are taking a workshop at Loop.

A nice big zipper pocket and a second pocket with a magnetic button.

Hello

Hello, I am still here. I will be on a plane very soon. Did I not turn out so cute?

I am a little bunny pin keeper sitting on a velvet tuffet.

My cotton tail made out of a rose coloured silk ribbon.

Happy Mother's Day!

A day at Mosport Motorsport Park

Forget about quilting, this was a day out with my son at the race track. Perfect sunny and dry condition to experience the R8 Audi for a lap at the Mosport car race track.

I never met so many happy men making it "their day" to rave up some fast exotic sports cars.

Some enjoyed to speed in a police car with sirens on.

There were no speed traps or pedestrians - just the driver , the instructor and the roaring sound of the engine.

Here is my son getting ready -  helmet mandatory !

A little bit of blue

Cross my fingers - this will be the weekend for gardening up north.

The Perfect Zip Bag for a Perfect Birthday

A friend of mine is celebrating her birthday next week and I just finished the Perfect Zip Bag by Elizabeth Hartman for her. I used Lotta Jansdotter's Glimma canvas and Basic Grey purchased at
  The Workroom.

Inside the little surprise...... the nano i-pod in lime green with her favourite songs.

This is a great pattern which offers different styles to make.

Sunday morning pleasure

Forget about gardening that's how it looked driving up to the cottage.

Lots of snow flakes at the end of April and waking up by -10C/14F.

My Sunday pleasure crocheting granny squares

&

coffee.

Toronto Vintage Clothing Show

It finally stopped raining and I went for the first time to the Vintage Clothing Show here in Toronto. Ontario and Quebec dealers showed vintage fashion, jewellery, lace, linen and quilts at the Artscape Wychwood Barns . This former streetcar maintenance building is now a heritage site and offers a cultural hub for artists.

Re-living the 50's 60' 70' and on........

This embroidered blouse brought back memories, I think it still hangs in my closet in Germany. I will check it out next month on my visit.

I fell in love with that blouse-  if only the price tag didn't have the 3 in front of the twenty five it would have been mine! ( $325!!!)

thimble collections

cupie dolls

yarn in a dreamy powder blue

I left the show with a lost soul of a stuffed animal, some fabric from the 70's and a children's coat hanger.