As part of the cultural Olympiad in Vancouver the Quilt of Belonging is on exhibit at the Surrey Art Gallery. Thanks to the information on the book of the same name costumes of Canada's Aboriginal peoples worn in the opening ceremony are familiar .The Challenge quilts mentioned below are on display at the Fort langleyHistoric Site. This is Gail de grosbois's entry
Professional Groups
National Associations
Local Guilds
February 23, 2010
February 16, 2010
February 13, 2010
In late September I attended a quilt show in Ste Sauvere QC and appraised a wonderful group of small quilts made as a challenge between Langley Quilter's Guild of Langley BC and the Laurentian Quilters. The idea was to depict the 2010 Winter Olympics and include the five rings and their colours. Licienne used thread drawing to show the city of .langley quilters chose olympic symbolsVancouver
February and the Olympic flame which went through Montreal West two months ago has arrived in Vancouver. Since then I have spent hundreds of hours hand quilting a white work quilt for our sons September wedding and hope to have it finished by the closing ceremonies of the games. It was a cold day in Sept when I held theflame shown in my white hat.
January 05, 2010
Happy New year Schedule for 2010
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The coming year will be an especially exciting and busy year for me as both sons are engaged. We spent a wonderful Christmas with them ,how great to have girls in the house.Attached is a picture of the 6 of us taken at our holiday brunch. I started off the new year by trying to spend 5 hours a day hand quilting the whole cloth wedding quilt for son Phil whose marriage to Laura is Sept 3, in St john's ,Newfoundland. Laura and Phil are on the left.
I started the new year by returning with Anna left back, to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
on Monday to remove the quilted decorations some made 20 years ago by
Courtepointe Quebec Quilts members. Note the spiral tree skirt designed by Lilly Lam and made by members of the Westmount Quilters who passed the tree decorating task on to our group this year.Shown here are Orion also on left ,of the
West End Quilters group, president Sandra Jones is on the right , taken after decorating this years tree.
I have also attached my scaled down schedule for 2010. in addition to wedding planning etc hubby and I are planning a trip to London in early spring so I can attend the Quilt Show at the V&A museum , the largest decorative Art Museum n the world. Two days in the museum will probably not be enough.ok signings,Appraisals,& lectures
Friday January 22
Open House Courtepointe Claire
Bpok signings and Appraisals
Boul Dagenais Ouest
Laval Québec H7T 1P8
(450) 628-9950
February 1
The Country Quilter Richmond ON appraisals
613-838-5541
Ottawa Valley Quilt Guild Ottawa
lecture: What Comes around Goes Around. 613-838-5935
April 28-May 1
Quilt Canada- Calgary
Telus Convention center
Show and walk up Appraisals
Daily book signings at vendors Quilters Haven514-605-7845
May 18 St Jacobs ON Appraisals
May 19
25th Anniv Waterloo Quilt Guild
Evening lecture
Appraisal location to be announced
May 27-30
Salon 2010
College Andre Grasette
10001 Cremazie East Montreal
My January schedule of finishing UFO's is challenging as usual since I am also comited to doing two challenges, at least I have the design in my head, now to transform it with the given materials.
This winter I hope to get to enough yoga classes to dump more weight, have to fit into those mother of the groom dresses. Hope to do enough down hill skiing to break in my new ski jacket a lovely purple and white cheater patchwork design ,after 20 years I decided to retire my old ski suit. I promise pictures on the ski slopes lots of snow here.
December 23, 2009
Christmas has almost arrived in Montreal. The Christmas quilts are on the beds ,presents are wrapped and house and tree decorated ,just waiting for sons to arrive home with our future daughter-in -laws.To spread Christmas cheer I have attached pictures of some of my Christmas aprons,part of a lecture i gave at the Beaconsfield Christmas luncheon Have a wonderful Christmas and best wishes for health and happness
December 08, 2009
Christmas quilts
The Beaconsfield Quilters Guild had an exhibit of Christmas quilts the last weekend of November. A few of our members brought large and small holiday themed quilts to the display at the community center. This lovely heritage home was really decked out for the season as the Olympic Torch will be visiting there Dec 10,2009 .The center is heavily used so for security reasons we could only have the display on the weekend. Thanks to Julie Tessier for organizing us. We took in $1000 which will be donated to The Gazette Christmas fund.
Pictured are the antique quilts which I provided . This necessitated the sewing of more hanging sleeves ,at least they all had labels . I really try and get sleeves and labels attached to my recent acquisitions before they go to storage. Two of these quilts were at the NS exhibit this past summer and one was exhibited for the first time. The red and white checked crib quilt is a pre-printed panel ,machine quilted. Fun to know that a hundred years our grandmothers took short cuts too.
