2014

This is the last blog post for the year! Instagram had been such a timesaver winning over blog entries. But the year 2014 had so many highlights I am grateful for. I was travelling to Germany, Ireland , a trip to New York with my son, a week with my husband on Martha's vineyard and I could sew.
I was checking through my iPhotos for this year and here are some of my finished projects.

The trip to the south of Ireland was amazing. How lucky was I to spend time with my sister and girl friend in the beautiful Bantry Bay to paint.

 The Bantry House

Our teachers

Flora Bowley, Pauline Agnew ( the brain behind this event) Melinda Cootsona

and Tara who captured the true essence of each of us on camera. Thank you!

In September my son Max graduated and is driving next week to British Columbia.

So we never know what the next year will bring us. 

But walking the earth I have met incredible people.

Welcome 2015!

Spacedust Quilt

Solids or almost solids oh yeah!

That's the result of fine tuning one colour to the next.

This pattern is by Tula Pink and the amazing quilting was done by Jo from Supposecreatedelight.

A very slow beginning of joining shades of colours.

The back looks like a zentangle doodling !

This quilt was for my son, the last one in the family to get a quilt.

Who is next?

July

31st !  The last day of July and I haven't updated my summer weeks. A sign that I was busy. Here are the highlights.

Summer camp at the workroom with Lizzy House

This is always fun, I did it last year and I signed up for the castle treasure quilt.
I am still working on it but one thing I know you need lots of space to lay it out.

First block done - coffee refuel 

Lizzy gave us lots of moral support to keep us sewing and Jacqueline supplied flatter for the ironing station.

 The assembly.

Celebrating another year of happiness!

Cloud chasing and taking photos of saffron yellow canola fields.
I love photography and would like to learn so much more.

Flea market shopping with my friend Nancy

...and I finished a quilt for a young girl which was packed and on the plane last night!

I am so pleased  how it turned out and it was quilted by Heather from Campground Studio.

This was one of my favourite blocks and and the final show&tell in the field.

Sitting all these hours behind the sewing machine I was ready to spend a couple of days at Jack's Lake.

Living at the moment and taking it all in. Swimming, canoeing and enjoying good company.

                                                                                                                        XOXO

New York City

The days are flying by and it's almost over a week that I took a four day trip with my son to NYC.

An on-line offer, hotel and flight, that I couldn't resist we booked our room at the King & Grove Hotel, a boutique hotel on the 29E29Street close to the subway. Flying out of Toronto at 6 in the morning and arriving at 8 we took the Staten island ferry to view the Statue of Liberty.

A visit to the new Word Trade Centre and the memorial of the Twin Tower which was very emotional.

A visit to the Leica Gallery.

Re-fueling with coffee and cupcake.

Lucky us, the first Friday of each month free entrance to the 

Neue Galerie.

Located at the Upper East Side at Central Park. Free nights means the line to get in stretched 2 blocks long!

This Gustav Klimt was sold for $135 million and makes it the most expensive painting ever bought at the time.

For any fabric lover PurlSoho is a must stop like seeing the Time Square. Travelling with my son that means for me the time is ticking and be fast. I know time means nothing if I am in fabric stores.

  Purl's curated colour bundle of fabric which is so hard to open!

Evening walk over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Sunday morning in Central Park to get some quiet time.

( just kidding...)

If you see this dessert you know that you are in Little Italy....

No trip is complete with a visit to the Grand Central Terminal.