End of Summer

Another summer has gone. at least this one brought better weather to Nova Scotia.  It is always difficult for me to leave family and friends to return to friend and husband  in  Montreal. As I closed the cottage and packed my unfinished quilt projects on the last day of summer I had the wonderful experience of a farewell salute form a bald eagle. He flew over the cottage  gliding on the updraft along the bank and to my delight turned around and repeated his flight..My quilting time was kept to a minimum ie, sewing sleeves on quilts and making a few pillows for the cottage. I did manage to get last years Mystery Quilt completed , started at a Timeless Stitches workshop during River John days in 2008 it was machine quilted by Gerene Chisholm on a state of the art Gammil The pictured quilt will travel to Calgary in October so almost lawyer eldest son Phil can use it as a donation to fund raiser for the Children's Legal Education and Resource Center.   

The Century of Stars quilt exhibit was well received at such a lovely facility. During the summer I  attended a number of Book Signings for Canadian Heritage Quilting  the last in  the east was held at my alma mater Mount Allison as part of their homecoming, 
September 20.

Part of my apron collection was displayed at the Northumberland Quilters show in Pictou in early August. I was also to give a brief talk at their Sept. meeting where I gave the last gallery talk at Museum of Industry about the quilt collection as it was being professionally photographed and closed the meeting with a brief explanation about the apron collection.  Although i promised to take August off I also had a small display in Wentworth as part of the Blueberry festival This time with the help of my cousin Ellen we mounted a display about our grandmother Annie Giles and the family quilting traditions.
Please note that during the summer some of my fellow appraisers worked very hard to get a new web site up on Appraising Quilts please check  quiltappraisers.org   for information about the appraisal process and locations for certified appraisers

    My fall schedule is also posted here and I am looking forward to seeing many of my Quebec quilting friends at the annual meeting of Courtepointe Quebec Quilts. This year I will have a table and be there signing and selling the book. Nicole will join me as well so we hope you bring your quilts to the Monkland Center  NDG on Saturday.

Currently I am getting ready to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving in Calgary with our son Phil and our daughter- in -law Laura and her parents. i am en route home form a wonderful seminar in San Jose where I visited the oldest quilt Museum n North America and listened to great research papers presented by like minded Quilt researchers. it was great to see so many of our AQS Appraisers. I am pictured here with Juie Siebler one of my favorite California Quilt dealer who shared some amazing California made quilts with us , unfortunately no pictures of quilts allowed.

I will soon be back in Montreal where I will be completing appraisals on the amazing quilts made by the Laurentian Quilters group as an exchange with an Abbotsford BC the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.