Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Friday, June 17, 2011

Weekend shop hop in San Francisco

Hello everyone!  I'm back from my weekend shop hop in San Francisco with friends.  Although we went to scout out fabric, we did manage to take in a few sights as well.  The first thing we did Saturday night was head over to Fisherman's Wharf.


Had to check out Macy's too!

And take a cable car...that's a must!


Admired some art...

...and architecture.


Happened upon a street festival in the Haight district.


People were rockin' out to the music.
 
Found some hippies...



...and met these two lovely ladies from Tibet who graced us with a chant and blessing...isn't that wonderful? 


And saw the silver man...he must have been boiling, it was such a hot day!


Here's one of the shops we went too, Britex on Geary street.  We also checked out Mendel's in the Haight, Fabrix and the most wonderful store of all, Discount Fabrics.  I think the name says it all! :-)


I bought fabric...
 
...and fabric...
 
...and more fabric...


...and boots!!   Be sure to check out Sue's blog for more photos of our weekend.

But I still didn't buy as much fabric as Marilyn did...she wins!

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Saturday in the sewing room

Hello everyone!  I am supposed to be in Red Deer, admiring all the beautiful quilts at their quilt show, but mother nature put a halt to those plans with our very first spring snowstorm....today only of course.  Temperatures are supposed to get back to normal tomorrow and I imagine most of the snow will be gone by Monday or Tuesday.


The scene from my sewing room early this morning.
 Looks like I'll be spending some time in my sewing room today - yoohoo!

Cheers,
Mary

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

thank goodness for friends!

Hello everyone!  Hope you had a super day.  I need to give a great big thank you to Sue for inviting me over to her house today.  We had a wonderful time sewing up scrappy blocks and chatting, the time just flew by!  Sue made up a lovely lunch, as she always does, and I ate too much, as I always do! 

Enjoy!
Mary-Frances


The scraps are on the table and we're ready to sew!

Here's Sue's first block...it's awesome!  I love it...it almost came home with me ;-)

Here's some of what I did today.

Yum, homemade cheese scones and raisin scones...there was even whipped cream and jam for the raisin scones.  How awesome is that?


Egg salad and a lovely multigrain bread for sandwiches.


And here's my little contribution...chocolate cake...no meal is complete without a little sweet...don't you think?