You Can Blow Out A Candle, But You Cannot Blow Out A Fire

Is the title of of the latest piece, which is coming along. It's finally moving ahead because I decided to try to sneak in a small piece to finish and mail out before christmas. So, of course, this piece that I had been working on over the last many many months starts YELLING at me to work on it, ONLY it. Silly, eh? Even sillier is that I feel grateful that it's finally talking to me. Do I show you a picture? It is far from finished, definitely in an awkward stage. ok, here's a bad snapshot from the webcam:

It did give me a chance to realize that the small piece is not the right piece for the person it was intended for, so there's that.

Yesterday I had a lovely day with my WOW group of women. We mostly chit chat and do our own little show and tell - I spent most of the day cutting papers for a Judy Neiemeyer quilt - not really artsy. But they helped me with fabric choices and how to deal with one fabric that stood out from the rest. It's a safe place to bounce ideas off of each other and show off works-in-progress. I am ever so grateful to be part of this group!

It's December?!!

 yeah, um, that was more than a week, wasn't it?

I have been working on some Quilty stuff - playing with paint and color (the green wrinkly stuff is tape). This one is coming along slowly, but it's getting there.

I'm also working on a traditional quilt, well 4 of them actually, for use on beds (imagine that). It's not like riding a bicycle - there's lots of stuff I've forgotten - so those are also going slowly and not always in the forward direction.  

After Thanksgiving, I brought my daughter back to school and on the way home I stopped at two Art Quilt exhibits. One in Clifton Springs, NY at Main Street Arts which was lovely - lots of bright colors and sparkly bits... I would feel very much at home with that group! And I also stopped at the Schweinfurth Art Center for the Quilts=Art=Quilts exhibit. Gorgeous. Plus, there were quilts by people I had taken classes with: Carol Trice and Maria Shell; one i had taken classes from: Wen Redmond and a friend who dyes gorgeous fabric, Mary Ann Gallaher, her fabric was used in one of the pieces! Sadly, no pictures were allowed, but there are photos on each website. Go if you can!!!

My husband, son and I went to London for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who convention! 

 We met up with Alex and Kevan and were lucky enough to have dinner with them even! (If you find yourself in need of Who memorabilia, THIS is the place to find it)

I so want to make a copy of Idris's dress - I took a lot of close up pictures. One of the costume designers was nice enough to turn it around for me so i could get a good look at the back. All of the Who people were super nice and generous with their time and talent. They seemed to love showing off their work to the audience and being appreciated and adored for their work!

 We sat in on a panel with 5 of the original Doctors, !!!TOM BAKER!!!, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. It was fun to listen to them reminisce.