Mixed Media/Fibre Art, Kansas Sunset – Waiting for a Breeze © Diane Duncan 2014
My roots in sewing and stitching are never far below the surface, in fact, I’ve become like one of those aerial plants with my roots exposed! Although I work in a number of media – I like variety and one media informs another – I always return to fibre!
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 which has more emphasis on the ‘twisted triangles’. I chose to emphasis the lights and...
read moreI 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...
read moreWe’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....
read moreLabour 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 with the feedback and the sale of a large piece. I discovered that there was another opening for the...
read moreBack 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 visit with new friends in Wilderness Village RV Resort just outside Rocky Mountain House, multiple...
read moreWe 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 is the final product – and it was well received! Side one…. and side two…. ...
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