Dimac Quilt

Schedule 2009-2010

Book signings, Appraisals, Lectures

May 30
West Island Quilters Guild 
Church of the Resurrection
99 Mount Pleasant, Pointe Claire QC
514-631-4448    

June 20
Mariners Quilt Guild Exhibit
St Vincent de Paul Parish Center
Dartmouth, NS
902-462-5539

July     
Fort Point Museum
LaHavre, NS
Aprons through the years
901-543-2140

July – Sept  opening July 1
A century of Star quilts exhibit
Museum of Industry, Stellarton, NS
902-755-5425   *

August 7 & 8 2009
Northumberland Quilt Show
Decoste Centre, Pictou, NS
 902-351-3033

September 18
Homecoming
Owens Art Gallery Mount Allison
Sackville, NB       

November12 
Art Focus lecture
Behind the pages: Writing the Canadian Heritage Quilting  Book
Westmount Library, Westmount, QC

Book Signing at Maison de Calico

March is here and fortunately my winter project, a large Log Cabin Quilt is almost pieced, a wedding gift for a summer wedding . I Also made a couple of quilts  for a new charity here in Montreal, Philou a respite care facility for handicapped children.

I Started the year with a couple of book signings. The January one was snowed out, but in February twenty-five people joined me at Maison de Calico, the oldest Quilting supply shop on Montreal Island for tea and scones while I told the story of writing Canadian Heritage Quilting and showed many of the vintage quilts used in the book.

The Spring issue of Canadian Quilter had a nice review of the book as well as instructions for making Mom's Ship of Dreams quilt, shown in the book but not patterned there. I have started to get quilts ready for their trip to Paducah, KY in April, since Canada Customs likes to know what I am taking in and out of the country.

I will be giving one of my new lectures "What Comes Around Goes Around",  as well as teaching two sessions on edge finishes.  Just realized that some of these quilts have been in my collection but slipped through the radar in regard to appraisals, sleeves and labels lack of them that is so amin the process fo doing that. I cannot put a value on my own quilts but hopefully will get some of the appraisers attending the show to complete the appraisals.

We are traveling south when the snow stops so I have some hand quilting projects lined up finishing one silk project and starting a n appliqued pillow top.

I will be appraising and signing books at two quilt shows in may, on may 30 I will be at the West Island Quilt show in Pointe Claire. Plans are almost finalized for the summer in Nova Scotia. I hope to get there by mid June.

Book Signings, Appraisals and Lectures 2009

February 8,  2:00pm
Sunday Afternoon tea
Trunk show quilts in the book
La Maison de Calico
Pointe Claire, Quebec
fee $10
reserve
514-695-0725

April 22-25 
AQS show
Paducah, KY
Edge Finishes Workshop

May 1-3
Beaconsfeld Quilt Show *
St Anne de Bellevue, Quebec
514-695-8249

June
Aprons through the years
LeHavre, Nova Scotia

July – September
A century of Star quilts exhibit
Museum of Industry
Stellarton, Nova Scotia
902-755-5425

August 7 & 8
Northumberland Quilt Show *
Decoste Center
Pictou, Nova Scotia
902-351-3033

November 12 
Art Focus lecture
Westmount library
Westmount, Quebec
514-937-6391

Schedule for Book Signings 2008

November 21, 11am-9pm   Town Hall, Montreal West, Art etc
November 22, 10am-4pm   Westminster and St Jacques

December 5, 10am-12:30    Country Quilter
December 6, 10am-12:30    Country Quilter, 3444 McBean, Richmond ON. (near  Ottawa) 613-838-5541

December 13, 12am-1:30    Quilt Classique 63D Donegani Ave, Pointe Claire, QC 514-630-8885

Book Release

Dear friends family and associates,

Karen Neary and I are happy to announce that our book featuring stories about  heritage quilts with original interpretations and instructions on how to reproduce them with modern methods is for sale at a book store near you.

Karen is also willing to ship an autographed copy to you. contact her at http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/sewkaren

Follow my blog  and I'll update you on the locations of signings.

Fall Quilt Shows in Montreal

The round of fall Quilt shows is almost finished in Montreal area and  snow has been seen! The leaves are falling as you can see, in our Montreal backyard. I am wearing my red pieced jacket  one of my 2008 projects completed or almost ,still plan to do more embellishing. Finished it  in time to wear it to the Annual General Meeting of  Courtepointe Quebec Quilts .

2008 was the 20th year that quilters from all across Quebec met for show and tell etc.. Everything is done in both French and English so a number of years ago I came up with the idea of doing a mystery quilt  during the proceedings. Now every year we get the  measurements of fabric in advance to bring to the meeting , the instructions are followed and by early afternoon the hand pieced blocks are assembled and placed on a design wall. A few guilds help out  with assembly and it is  Long Arm Machine quilted by one of the 10 members who have  a special machine and volia, the raffle quilt is ready  for next year.

There is a picture of  me with members of my Beaconsfield Quilters Guild group who made the trip to Montreal's South Shore.it was a lucky day, most of us won prizes. I now belong to 4 Guilds so it will indeed be a challenge to do three quilts for the guild challenges in 2009.

First Quilt Show of the Fall

Fall is here and I am back in Montreal starting the round of fall quilt shows. Spending this weekend in delightful country just south of Montreal but close enough to see the Green Mountains of Vermont. The enthusiastic group of 125 French Canadians fill a large hall with quilts many of them hand quilted, every fall.

I Only appraised one vintage quilt but did an interesting applique one called Blossom quilt made from a McCalls pattern purchased by the makers Aunt in 1939 for 35 cents. There are 2 raffle quilts and I am pictured with the Guild president and my appraisal student Nicole who is also an excellent translator.

Northumberland Quilt Guild Show

Here I am in the ATV studio getting "miked" before the live interview. The memorial quilt I made for family friends from a young pilots clothing is in front of the table and my latest wool star quilt is on the right.

Quilts made by other members of the Northumberland Quilt Guild are throughout the set. They arranged the interview and I am working at their show Aug 1&2.

Summer in NS

I have been busy tending my flower gardens and roses so no time for quilting. Weather is grand so I am able to take my daily swim. Late July is Home-Coming week in the village, so it will be busy and I am giving a lecture on quilt Appraising July 23 at the local Library.

I  finally received the new craft table, ordered at salon 2006 from Horn Company.  I plan to start cutting fabric for the Mystery quilt workshop I will be attending next week. Spent part of this week preparing three heritage quilts, all red and white signature types, for a display at our Salem United Church, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary the first weekend in August. Digital images of the quilts will be posted soon.

Leaving St. John's

Greetings from the Edge of Canada, St John's,NL. After a week of viewing quilts, learning new techniques, networking, appraising a few quilts and generally being immersed in the quilting world of the Canadian Quilters Association, we are reluctantly dispersing. Thanks to the Cabot Quilters and their families pressed into service to help at the white glove stations and serve tea and buns, etc... Some of us are heading around the bay as they say here .

Yesterday I was fortunate to meet one of my sons ,his girlfriend and my husband to view icebergs and breathe the cool salty air, here is a pic of my NL roommate and best friend, Anne Kaufman, preparing to walk down signal hill.