Good Monday Morning everyone...
The clouds are screaming in all around us here in Kingston and yes, we will see the remnants of IKE this day - a hugely serious storm that has affected many of my friends from the QUILTART List and the International Quilt Festival crown including Karey Bresnehan who is the Founder of the Festival in Houston each year. Good wishes for a speedy clean-up and return to some semblance of regular day to day life to all...and yes, we are feeling the pinch of the gas price increases here in Kingston. Yesterday, $139.9 and growing. Please don't forget with all of this doom and gloom that we have wonderful friends and skills to lean on in difficult times. Call a friend today, make some great stitches into a small quilt that has been languishing on a shelf or get to the sewing machine and create ART! Take time to make a special dinner for your family today - maybe start the fall season with an old favorite soup recipe and use up some of the things in the freezer!
The clouds are screaming in all around us here in Kingston and yes, we will see the remnants of IKE this day - a hugely serious storm that has affected many of my friends from the QUILTART List and the International Quilt Festival crown including Karey Bresnehan who is the Founder of the Festival in Houston each year. Good wishes for a speedy clean-up and return to some semblance of regular day to day life to all...and yes, we are feeling the pinch of the gas price increases here in Kingston. Yesterday, $139.9 and growing. Please don't forget with all of this doom and gloom that we have wonderful friends and skills to lean on in difficult times. Call a friend today, make some great stitches into a small quilt that has been languishing on a shelf or get to the sewing machine and create ART! Take time to make a special dinner for your family today - maybe start the fall season with an old favorite soup recipe and use up some of the things in the freezer!
This morning is the opening Fall 2008 meeting of the Cataraqui Guild of Needle Arts - the local Embroiderers Guild, and I will be going to re-join this group of avid stitchers. A "next step" on my journey to re-claiming my former life when hand stitchery was a part of my every day life, and time was more precious and available to me. I have made some small strides toward "retirement" and hope that soon the reality of being home all day and doing what I want and need to do will actually be a part of my life. I look forward to seeing old and new friends this morning and getting into the swing of spending first and third Monday mornings at Edith Rankin Church on Bath Road in Kingston. Come join in on the fun. Keep in mind that the Guild is working very quickly now to host the National Seminar of the Canadian Embroiderers Association - May 2009 I believe, at St. Lawrence College. Membership is around $80 for the year and includes membership in the National organization and the receipt of four issues of their Newsletter/magazine. The meetings run from 9:30-3:30 with stitchers sharing brown bag lunch break and some "learning time" with a lesson in a particular stitch each meeting, afternoons with a dedicated class chosen by stitchers who wish to participate, or just time to stitch among friends. Come play...
Good News... our DESIGN FOR TEXTILES course at St. Lawrence College is up and running with nine students - THANK YOU to everyone who decided to come out and join us. This will be a very productive and enlightening term for students in Janice Van Dijk's Photography Courses, Tine Barnes/Zahra Husain's Silk Painting Course, Beth Abbott's Fibre course on Tuesday evenings and our Thursday night Design Program. This is really good news for our stitching community! Special thanks to Barb Rushton, Denise Sokolsky and Seymone Armostrong for sticking with the program and heading very quickly now toward their graduation. Huge Hooray.... and we will be experimenting with all sorts of great techniques this fall, including design elements in black and white, some stitching of Journal covers for small written records kept during this 12 week adventure with design, the creation of "deconstructed screen printed" cloth and more complex layering techniques and some collage work which is always a fast and exciting process.
Don't forget that FIBREFEST Kingston will be running this coming weekend at the FRONTENAC CULTURAL CENTRE at 711 Dalton Ave., Kingston. This weekend of quilting is sponsored by our local shops, The Quilters Choice, The Perfect Stitch, Wilton Creek Fabrics and Garden Thyme. Registration is still available and you can contact the registrar, Karen McGee at kmagee5@sympatico.ca for more information. The Lecture with Joen Wolfrom is Friday evening at 7 pm, $25 at the door or register at the shops mentioned above. Hope to see you there.
Now off to Guild and work and then a week watching the skies... the storms are headed right over us, and the blue skies this morning may be deceiving us into a lull of complicity. Here is hoping the forecasters are wrong and we will be in "fall season" which is a cherished right of passage for many of us!
Happy Monday..
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