The May swap finished and I got some lovely fat quarters from my swap partner and embroidery scissors and chocolate and a charm pack that I really love. My partner was in Kingston, Ontario. I sent some chocolate and fancy shoelaces, a swatch recorder and fabric. I also made her a pickle block because she has a blog named Pickle Block. This block is paper pieced and tricky to make. It was also the first block to be made in the red and aqua swap.
I also participated in the Porkchop fabric square swap. Flossie got this exchange organized Seven sets of women exchanged packages of 25 fabrics cut into 6 inch squares. So you end up wit 200 different fabrics. Now to decide what to do with them.
Poppyprint (Krista) suggested I go to the Lions Gate Quilters Quild Show in North Vancouver and it was amazing. The leaf quilt detail is from a quilt Krista made entitled Autumn Dyes - I love it. There were many outstanding quilts. This Salmon by Pam Cove caught my eye too. I was to meet Krista for the first time but she was always one step ahead of where people thought she was. Hopefully this week we will connect at the first meeting of the Modern Quilters Guild being held at a new sewing lounge called Spool of Thread.
I had two friends travel to Vancouver and I was so pleased to catch up with them. Catherine traveled from Burlington, she and I were in Planning school together and then we worked for while in Burlington on each others maternity leaves and then together in the Planning Department. It was great to exchange info and hear about each others children. My friend from high school Liz travelled from Ottawa and we had a great day - non stop chatting and laughing. Now that our children are mostly grown we are finding time for ourselves and looking forward to new challenges in the future, in the next stage of our lives.
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