Check out the link to Quiltersmuse.com for a posting re one of my quilts with ‘words’ or writing on it (August 28th posting).  I have been catching up on past postings on the quiltart digest and noticed a call for ideas about how people use words on their work and thought of this piece ‘2008 Revisited: Retirement Angst’.  It hasn’t been posted anywhere yet and this is just a teaser shot as I would like to...

As a follow-up to all the postings on Dale Ann Potter’s FB page about her dream of traveling by RV and teaching as she goes, I decided not to delay any longer with this posting.  It’s been planned for a while but I thought I should wait until everything was tidy!  This may be a bit of a ramble and I’ll try to group info but here goes! My Mobile Studio We have been traveling full-time in our motor home since January 2009 and...

Over the weekend I continued to work on samples until I ran out of suitable fabric – plain enough for the stitching to show but not totally plain.  My machine was cantankerous, making new noises and not making perfect stitches so I was glad that I had booked a visit to the service man Gil at Rumpled Quilt Skins in Okotoks.  Not next door but this store comes highly recommended by a friend back in Ottawa.  What a banquet of quilts to view...

I’m finally back at my sewing machine.  Thanks to surgery and physiotherapy, the wrist is working fairly well, although my coordination is not what I’d like it to be.  So I designed my own therapy to work on that! I started about a month ago when I tackled a task I had talked about for two years – documenting the built-in embroidery stitches on my sewing machine.  Somehow the computer images just don’t tell the whole...

Back in the winter I undertook to make a couple of crib quilts – one for a niece’s baby and one for a new grandchild expected in July.  The baby quilts were finished earlier in the spring and one delivered in March when we were back in Ontario.  I was using a pattern ‘Twisted Triangles’ that I found on allpeoplequilt.com.  I just checked and I can’t find the instructions but the link shows the original pattern...

I just found this really neat site for an on-line quilt festival and thought I would post an entry. There is a first time for everything!     My entry is the wedding wall quilt that I made for my son and daughter-in-law a few years ago.     Under the guise of making a scrapbook for them, I asked them both write the story of how they met and under another pretense got a copy of some of their digital photographs. Where I...

We’ve been back in Alberta now for the past week and I’m madly trying to sort and sift the interior of the motor home to simplify life after my surgery next week. On top of that I had to fit in a couple of days for the tax man and make a number of trips for medical appointments – not all mine.  Add to that refinishing a piece of furniture for a nursery…  The weather was a balmy 20C when we arrived but Alberta has been...

Labour Day weekend is usually a quiet one around our house but not this year. I came back from holidays with a long ‘to do’ list! Top of the list was to prepare for a fiber art gallery show that I made a commitment to earlier in August. The first night back was a meeting with the group of artists who are cooperating. In July I was fortunate to have the opportunity to hang a solo show in a local Book Shop and have been very pleased...

Back home tonight. What a busy ten days we have had. First a smooth flight with wonderful views of clouds and the fields and forest below as we flew west . . . Then a walk down Stephen Street in Calgary under wonderful blue skies . . . a rodeo in Airdrie . . . a visit to Drumheller on a day when the thermometer registered 40 degrees Celsius and a brisk dry wind was blowing . . . An afternoon in Banff amidst the glorious Canadian Rockies . . . A...

We arrived in Calgary last night to a warm welcome from the ‘grand-dogs’! This morning we are taking a lazy start as we are still on Ontario time and our planned trip downtown is best left until after the morning rush hour. I wonder what adventures today will hold. The last couple of weeks were a real scurry and culminated in a marathon photography session so I could record the T-shirt quilt before it was packed for delivery. Here...