It’s hard to think that Christmas has come and gone. We seem to prepare for it for months in advance, and all of a sudden … poof! the presents are opened, the food is eaten, and we are left with memories, and photos, and lots and lots of wrapping paper on the floor. Sabrina arrived…
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…