Research and Stories
This is a place where I can share some of my research pertaining to early settlement and family histories intertwined with the story of Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. I’ve been researching and writing for many years and want to make some of my work more widely available.
This blog was originally designed to share my artwork and creative activities during the years when I was exhibiting widely. My art has now taken second place to refining and publishing some of my research, but I have left the art posts available for perusal.
Whatever your interest might be, enjoy, and provide feedback if you can.
Diane
Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on June 9, 2010 in Featured Flag, This And that! | 5 comments
Well the jokes on me! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on my ‘challenge ‘ entry for the Fast Friday challenge, only to discover that it is blog postings I subscribed to, and not the group itself! And it’s a closed group to boot!Oh well, I’ve completed my first fiberart journal piece I guess. With my dominant hand in a cast for the past month, I’ve spent a lot more time than usual surfing and found this group that gives itself really great monthly challenges. I’ve been following this...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on May 24, 2010 in Books & Art Journals, Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts | 6 comments
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 didn’t have photos, I used logos or paper-piecing to create blocks. Because New York City figured...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on May 2, 2010 in Featured Flag, This And that! | 1 comment
I’m finally home after a delightful visit with friends from my Ottawa days. Vikki and Gayle thanks so much for enticing me into more than my planned activities! Dinner Thursday night with Dena Crain, a textile artist from Nakuru Kenya, was such a treat. And it was so much more fun to work the market mall with others while comparing notes. The quilt and quilt art exhibitions was exhausting. In addition to trying to assimilate what I was seeing, my head was in a constant whirl of ideas for new projects of my own. Can you tell...
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on April 29, 2010 in Featured Flag, This And that! | 0 comments
Here’s the view referred to in the last post. I had to share it. Just as I went to upload, it disappeared from the post and I couldn’t find a way to add it after the fact.
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on April 29, 2010 in Crochet, Knitting and Knotting, Featured Flag, Fibre Art & Quilts, Wearables | 0 comments
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 experiencing a series of wintery storms that are bring much needed moisture for the growing season....
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Posted by Diane Miller Duncan on February 10, 2010 in Crochet, Knitting and Knotting, Featured Flag | 0 comments
I’ve been lying low for a reason – I am reduced to typing with one hand and one finger due to a broken wrist shortly after my last post. Hopefully, surgery later this year will correct the resulting problem. In the meantime I have experienced 12 weeks in a cast, visits to specialists, travelled half way across the continent west to east and back again to finalize the sale of our home and then halfway across the north and south axis to our winter destination in search of some sun and much needed R&R. All the above to say...
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