the one to choose the title for our next challenge.............

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is Patricia!!

Good luck and have fun with the choice!

I hope to submit the first one and perhaps even the second when and if life goes back to a slightly slower pace.

Enjoy

Pam

Exhibition News

I am happy to announce that two of my pieces, in fact my most personal and meaningful pieces, have been juried into Sacred Threads, a show in Washington DC in July. These are "Remembering my Family: A Holocaust Memorial Quilt" and "Catharsis".

Also my latest collaboration with Marion Perrault, "Globe of Light" was voted Best of Show at the annual Beaconsfield Quilters Guild show, where we also displayed our 12BTD work.

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Aubergine preview

Naughty - but nice.  I can't believe I have finished two pieces and there are still weeks to go.  And to top it I have enjoyed making them.  The first was a bit of a cop-out so I challenged myself to 'try harder'.  Here's a tiny window on the two pieces.

I have finished my Straplines piece as well - and submitted it - so the die is cast.  It was very difficult to photograph.  I have found before that white is not an easy colour.  Frustrating when I know that the photograph is so important.  Time will tell - end of May is when they have said they will inform us.

Hilary

12 by the Dozen at the Beaconsfield Quilters' Guild Show

Heather and I hung 21 of our pieces at the show this weekend. These were the 4 challenges from the past year: Fine Living, Threads, Jubilation and Encore by the Montreal members of our group (Heather, Helena, Dianne, Michele, Colleen, Pam and one piece from honourary guest Lauma Cenne). They were viewed with great interest by visitors and looked great. Note the black webbing straps,Hilary, made with your instructions a couple of years ago.

Piste cyclable en oeuvre

Heather Dubreuil, Villaggio Toscano

Michele posted about this project a few weeks ago, and now I'm happy to let you know about the official opening of the "Piste cyclable en oeuvre". Fifty-four artists of the region were chosen to make a piece that was then photographed and printed on a six-foot tall banner. These vinyl banners will be hung as kilometre markers all along the Soulanges bike path: fifty-four banners, back-to-back, and twenty-seven lamp posts.

Michele Meredith, Along the Path

About 100,000 visitors cycle, walk and roller-blade the path every year, and these banners will be installed for four years. The promoters say this is Canada's largest outdoor art display.

The original works of art will be displayed in different venues around the county all summer. The vernissage is on Friday, May 3, 6 - 10 p.m. at Pavillon Wilson, 48 rue Principale, Coteau-du-Lac, and you are invited! The gallery show continues until August 28.

Aubergine Teaser

I have been pulling out fabrics with aubergine in them plus the odd contrast.  I was amazed at how many fabrics I had with this unusual colour in them.  That dark one is the best aubergine I have seen and is also a Heide Stoll Weber fabric.  Those of you coming to Birmingham this year will have the opportunity to lust after her fabrics - expensive but some of the best hand dyes I've come cross - and you have to be at her stand on the first day for the best selection!

And just to tease - I may or may not use any of these fabrics!!!

Hilary

REVISITING

I am reposting a picture of the work as I cannot remember what I called it and it is too far back.

It is 5 individual strips, 5 individual challenges , all whole cloth with various surface designs and techniques.  The first strip completed is the one on the right and the challenge was 'revolution' and my inspiration came from two pieces completed by Sheena Norquay that I saw at the Birmingham Quilt Show a few years back.