2017 Retrospective: Fourth Quarter

October

In Ohio to study with Nancy Crow.

an evening bonfire at the Crow Barn

One of John's beautiful winesap apples.  It looks like

a deconstructed screen to me!

One quarter of my bullseye

dahlia from Nancy's cutting garden

a trip to Amish country the weekend between workshops

an Amish farmer 

doing my presentation

late night drive back to my airbnb in Granville OH

another construction in-process

my critique

Urban Garden Selvedges

quilt market prep underway!

free pattern giveaway

Monarch Migration 

Celebrating Bizzi's 13th birthday with Chuck and Ellie before I leave for Houston

and Quilt Market

I made 2 succulents for my Schoolhouse door prizes

Schoolhouse presentation at Quilt Market

putting together my booth in the RJR booth at Quilt Market

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November

A visit to the Van Gogh exhibit that I co-juried for Cherrywood Fabrics

Jamie and I pose before our curator pieces in the Dinner At Eight exhibition

A blowout on the way back to San Antonio.

Very disappointing.

Another finish.

Thanksgiving in Iowa with the family.

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December

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A freak 2" snowfall in San Antonio.

I might have been the only one who wasn't all that psyched about it, but still,

I do appreciate how people feel about it since most haven't had to live with it longterm!

Tim and Bizzi have a conversation

I learn to make tamales

family over for a day of swimming and cooking in the 

outdoor kitchen

A family walk on the "river reach" between the Pearl and downtown.

Happy New Year!

May 2018 be a great one for all of you!

2017 Retrospective: Third Quarter

July

It's hot!  The Allium are now all dried out and I still love them just as much.

The SAMQG comes over to have a party/meeting at my house.

To Lowell for the opening of "Threads of Resistance".

My daughter and friend Michele are present.

Friends at a post-opening reception.

Later that same evening I flew to the Netherlands.

and you think your parking spaces are tight..!

A Mandrake?

The Goldfinch, my favorite painting, housed in Mauritshaus in The Hague.

I noted that it has "pride of place" now that it has become famous since the publication of the book 

of the same name.  Prior to this, it was hung above a doorway in a very nondescript location.

It is now in the same room as "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Vermeer.

Rooftop view from the apartment where my husband and daughter were living for 6 months

during a project.

A harbor tour of Rotterdam, which has some of the most gorgeous 

contemporary architecture.  The city was totally destroyed during WWII

The original headquarters of the Holland America Line.

To Amsterdam for the day.  A visit to the Rijksmuseum.

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August

Home from Europe and back to work on another quilt.

Nests & Vessels #1

a workshop to learn how to make 3D succulents

I flew to Santa Fe and met Tim.  He was invited to give  a program on 

painting and optics in the 17th century at the Santa Fe Institute.

Home again and a birthday....

Tim gave me this floating bouquet.

The garden grows.

I get a surprise package containing several letters my father wrote to a friend during 

his flight training in WWII.  I was so emotional about it.

It was like getting a bit of my father back!  And to read his letters written

as a young man.  It was special.

The beauty berries ripen.

Hurricane Harvey makes landfall as a Cat 5 and looks like it is headed straight to us.

We certainly dodged a bullet but everyone knows what happened instead....

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September

My beautiful fabric line arrives.

I love how it turned out!  Urban Garden drops in early March 2018.

Look for it!

I love this so much.  I saw it in an airline magazine.

Jamie and I go to Hamilton MO for the 

Missouri Star Quilt  Company birthday bash.

It was quite the deal.

Jenny Doan

And, amazingly enough, I reconnected with Lori Rognlie.

I took care of her 33 years ago when I worked as an RN in L&D in Topeka KS!

She just happened to be in Hamilton MO for the event!  How crazy is that?!

It was one of those special moments for me.  It is a small world.

Back on a plane out of Kansas City and on to Columbus, then to

the Crow Barn for two weeks of study with Nancy.

my "home" for two weeks.