This jacket is a favorite and I love wearing it!  The initial ‘fabric’ was created in a ‘stack and whack’ workshop at Quilt Canada in Ottawa previously and incorporates four batiks.  I created a jacket pattern (my design) and determined that I would use black fabric as a foil for the patterned fabrics.  Once the surface was pieced it was layered with a light batting and the jacket is lined with another batik.  Each...

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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...

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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...

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