I received a supper nice email from Joyce Witt this week. I taught for Joyce’s guild, Gems of the Prairie, in Peoria, Illinois a couple of years ago. Joyce purchased a couple of my patterns while I was there. She finished “Midnight Floral Fantasy” and entered it in her guild show. Below is a picture of the quilt that Joyce sent me.
Joyce won three awards! She won Chairman’s Choice, Vendor’s Choice and Viewer’s Choice. I don’t think there were any ribbons left for anyone else!! Way to go Joyce. I am so proud of you. Not only did the quilt look great hanging before the judging but when the judging was over it even looked better with all of the ribbons attached. (The 4th ribbon was for the machine quilter who quilted this for Joyce.)
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I made 2 trips to Virginia to teach this week. The first trip took me to the Reston Quilters Unlimited Guild. Jamie was my guild contact and she did a great job getting everything organized for my trip to her guild. This was a fantastic group of ladies. Here they are hard at work.
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On my drive home from Reston I got in a bit of work traffic coming out of the DC area but since I was listening to a good audio book I did not even care. I finished Michael Connelly’s book ‘The Fifth Witness”. This is another in the series on the Lincoln Lawyer. Since the movie, The Lincoln Lawyer, came out this past year it is even better reading about the Lincoln Lawyer because I just think of Matthew McConaughey! (with his shirt off!) In this book Mickey Haller (the Lincoln Lawyer) has fallen on some difficult times. There is not much criminal work coming in so Mickey decides to go back for some classes and starts handling defense on foreclosures. Then one of his new clients is accused of murder and let’s say Mickey is back into criminal work. The book had interesting characters and an interesting ending.
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And now I go back to Virginia. This trip took me to the Haymarket Quilters in Aldie, Virginia. Again, I forgot to take photos while I was there. I hate that I forget. I get so into teaching that it just does not cross my mind to take photos in the classroom. I thought of it when I was in the car on the ride home.
Pat was my guild contact and she had everything extremely well organized. The lecture and workshop were held in Haymarket, Virginia’s Town Hall. I had never been in Haymarket before and I have to tell you I would like to go back when I have some extra time. It was a really cute little town. The guild has a wonderful quilt they made for the Town Hall hanging right inside the door. It made the room very inviting. Thanks to all the ladies there who made my trip to Haymarket a good one.
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Here are a couple of photos I took in the back patio this week, in between the rain!
I watched this beautiful monarch butterfly and recalled a few years ago when Joe and I traveled to central Mexico to witness the migration of the monarchs. Amazing how they annually migrate from the North to the mountains of Mexico. Below is a photo we took while on our trip to Mexico. There were millions of monarch butterflies. It was one of the most incredible sites I have ever seen.
This week I am off to Gorham, New York. Talk to you when I return.
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