Good morning, If you’ve admired felted wool ornaments and have always wanted to make some, there was a good article on Quilting Arts Gifts, 2008 by Judy Coates Perez. She has re-posted the tutorial on her blog; http://judyperez.blogspot.com/. Let me know if you make some. It reminded me I had made lots of felted wool…
I thought I’d share with you an article that my daughter Sabrina sent me from the Philippines, where she’s been working for the past 5 months. I found it very enlightening and amazing; it says something about following your dreams: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/parenting/parenting/view/20101201-306248/From-Argentina-to-Alaska-and-now-Manila–if-only-Immigration-would-allow-them I hope you enjoy the article. I, for one, am counting the days ……
It is -30 degrees Celsius in the city, very, very cold. Looking out my window I can see the sun is coming out, although it is not going to get much warmer until the end of the week. It has been snowing a lot too, so everything is white, and sparkly which is good to…
A couple of weeks ago I started working on a new quilt. Pieced this time, which I haven’t done much of in the past few months. But, of course, me being me, I couldn’t just decide to piece squares or triangles. Nope, not me. I had to design this really complicated quilt with all kinds…
Welcome to day 1 of daylight savings time. Woke up this morning to a beautiful sunny day, although the rooftops are white with frost. It is going to melt, as the weather report forecasasts a high of 12 degrees C today, but … snow tomorrow, on Tuesday and on Wednesday. We shouldn’t complain though, it’s…
Good morning from a beautiful morning in Calgary, It is the beginning of October in the city; the leaves are changing color, turning the city into a golden spectacle. At home, the trees have gone from a deep red to gold to oranges, ,and all the colors in between. It is a lovely day today,…
Latest news: “The Blue Door” was accepted into the Pacific International Quilt Festival quilt competition in Santa Clara. The festival runs from October 14-17, 2010. For more information, go to www.quiltfest.com. Keep quilting. Ana
The rain has been falling here in Calgary for a couple of weeks now. Somehow, when we were not watching … Fall arrived and is here to stay. It even snowed during the night on Thursday, so we woke up to houses covered in a sprinkling of snow, and cars covered in white … I…
Hope everyone had a nice Labor Day weekend. The weather sort of cooperated (at least part of the time) so it was a good weekend all around. I decided to take a break from the city yesterday, and drove to Canmore. When I got onto the highway, and started heading west, I realized that the…
Good afternoon, SAQA’s benefit Auction 2010 is just about a month away. There are 288 gorgeous works of art up for bid at prices from $750 to $75. We need to let everyone know! So I am doing my part by posting it here. Go to www.saqa.com, and click on “News and Events” at the…
So now I can tell you to keep an eye on the next issue of Quilting Arts Magazine (August / September 2010). I believe it will be on sale on August 3rd. There is an article by me titled “Creative Play with Discharge Paste”, and I found out the other day that I am the…
Ahhh! Vancouver … I decided to jump on a plane for Vancouver on a whim. Linda and Laura Kemshall and Catherine Nicholls were going to be in Vancouver for the launch of the new Thr3fold book and I decided to go. My friend Aarol met me at the airport and we had a lovely morning…
Well, I am going to try this for the third time today. I just lost this blog … again! So, now there are two of them out somewhere floating in the outer regions of the web. This is a new domain, and it has been somewhat frustrating to say the least. Oh, well … here…
Good evening, I am finally trying to get my life back together after a hectic couple of months. I did move into a new house, and did a lot of packing, cleaning, culling, unpacking, more cleaning, more culling. CQA came and went in the city. I had a great experience teaching, and hope to be…
It’s me again. Here’s the second piece I sent for the Quilting Arts Calendar Challenge 2010 “Flavor of the Month”. This one was not selected as a finalist, but thought you’d like to see it. It is called “This is my mother” and it is for the month of May, in honor of mothers everywhere:…