This past winter was absolutely frigid. Even long, well established shrubs, and perennials had a hard time.
This American lilac with a beautiful blushing pinkish purple flower had been at the house as long as we owned it and probably long before. This past winter was a hard one for it as you can see from the amount that we pruned out that was dead.
The dog has been so good this weekend so I took her for a long walk around the hidden lakes trails. So hard!
Now Scapa and I are relaxing on the couch.
before my concussion 10 years ago, I was a pretty avid quilter. After my concussion, most of my energies were focussed on work because work pays the bills. Great thing about your brain is that it is plastic, and things that you want you will often achieve overtime and with effort. So one of the things I started doing two years ago is getting back into quilting. It turned out I had quite a number of quilt tops in my stash that needed to be quilted. This past weekend I have spent some time doing just that with support from the team at Bears Paw quilts here in Whitehorse.
Before quilting 
After quilting 
The piece pictured it’s actually really interesting story. The patchwork is a piece that I pulled out of a free bin at Gold, Rush Pawn this past February. The backside is a printed panel that I got at Granville ferry, wooden spool the year before last in February. And the batting is a woollen one from Carstairs custom woollen Mills in Alberta. I wanted to use these pieces together as an experiment to see what I need to do to be able to use those woollen quilt bats from Alberta. I want to support Canadian! The key is lots of extra spray glue, and basting . I hand basted about every 10 to 12 inches. Then I also quilted it slightly differently than I would with a cotton batting, I worked from the edges, one end to the other. I think it was a success.
