Framed Nine-Patch Flimsy

I have been able to do a bit of sewing.  Not much, but at least it's something.

July has arrived and the new colour for the rainbow challenge is blue.  I can do that.  I have lots of blues.

But before I play with my favourite colour,  I want to show you my framed nine patch flimsy.  I found these blocks in an unmarked box when I was looking for something else.  I have no idea when I started them.  And I don't remember what I was going to make.  There were 15 blocks altogether.   Each block will measure 10 inches finished.  I decided on a four by four layout.  That would give me a 40in by 40in  quilt.  Big enough for a baby or perhaps a wheelchair quilt.  So that meant I had to make 1 more block.  And since it was June and the colour of the month was purple I made a purple one.

And here is the whole quilt top.  I hope to take it from a flimsy to a completed quilt soon.  Next week I have an appointment with the eye specialist.  He will decide if eye glasses of some kind will benefit me.  I hope so.  It has been a long time since I was able to see anything either up close or in the distance.

CANADA DAY!

 Don't get me wrong.  I am proud to be Canadian.  I love this country.  As an immigrant I am glad to be able to live here.  There are lots of other places in the world that are much worse. 

At the moment there has been a lot of controversy over whether or not to celebrate Canada Day.   It is felt that celebrations should be called of in a gesture of reconciliation and solidarity with indigenous communities.  Native peoples have had to deal with a lot of grief. /It has been a hard time for them.  I agree that it doesn't seem fair to celebrate when so many are hurting.  

Yesterday 182 more unmarked graves were discovered at the site of a former residential school in Cranbrook, B.C.  More are expected to be found.  We have become a country divided each time another unmarked grave is found.  People are reeling from this news.  Not just indigenous people, but others as well.  I know I am. 

Indigenous people have a lot of healing to do.  But we all have to share the blame and help them heal.  That is if they trust us enough to let us help.  And we have to heal ourselves.  We have to acknowledge history, but we also have to move forward.  History cannot repeat itself.  

In order to support both Canada and Native people, I have decided to make some orange rail fence blocks today, to join the blocks I made earlier in red.  Red for Canada.  Orange to honour Indigenous People.  

They look very similar, don't you think?  

I hope we can acknowledge Canada's 186th birthday, even if we don't actively celebrate it.

HAPPY CANADA DAY!