MERRY CHRISTMAS

To all our family and friends, Bill and I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

 

 

 

 

 Happy Holidays!

Jan Krentz Workshop

Time moves slowly, time moves quickly!  November 5th seemed so far away until the calendar turned the page and then the 5th was here before we knew it.

The Umpqua Valley Quilt Guild brought in Jan Krentz, a well known, published quilter, to give a workshop.  Chris and I had signed up for it months ago and never thought the day would ever arrive.  But....it did.

 

Didn't take long to load the back of the car with the needed supplies...yep, sewing machine and one little bag of material, rotary cutter, lots of enthusiasm, and a set purpose in mind.  How little I knew of what to expect from six hours of working with Jan!

 

 

Chris and I arrived a bit early and soon had our design batting sheets in place. (Notice there are no sewing machines in place!)

 

 

These are two of Jan's quilts to give us inspiration!  We had a couple of group sessions with Jan and her presentations.  She was a wonderful instructor and shared a wealth of information and hand-outs.

 

We were fortunate to have a large area to spread out in.

 

 

Chris and the start of hers (to the right).

 

 





Mine without the foggiest of where I am going with it!

Sharon with a clear vision of what she wants.

 

 

It was a wonderful day and who would have thought that a room full of ladies could spend six hours cutting and playing with placement of fabric and be so happy.  My biggest surprise was that none of us ever got to the point of bringing in a sewing machine and sewing one single piece of fabric!

Happy Designing!

Happy Halloween

 

It's that time of year again.....boo, boo!

Happy end of October

Gone and back....

How fast time can fly when you are out and about.  But the main question is why do we not do it more often as we so love the coast and the ocean and the beachcombing and just being away for a few days.....

We left Wednesday morning and had two nights reserved in Gold Beach.  This left us plenty of time to take a few roads less traveled and now that summer is over the beaches were just about empty.

And we had windless sunshine on the first day.

One of our favorite stops is in Port Orford.  The big rock is "Battle Rock".  There is also a quilt store here that never gets passed by.

There is no way to take a bad picture of the Oregon coast, not even from the balcony of a motel room in Gold Beach.... by this time we already had driftwood and rocks in the back of the car!

Thursday was spent heading up the Rogue River out of Gold Beach.  We had stopped by the Ranger Station for a map of the old growth trail that was to be our main destination and while there just happened to mentioned in conversation the question of 'what are agates?'  The gal was nice enough to look over the few we thought were agates from the day before and WHOPEE three of the many rocks were! 

Okay, back to the trail....

 
 


 

 

 

The trailhead was 2 miles off the main road and was one lane the whole way as we wound our way up....once at the trailhead there was only one other car in the parking lot.  Trail was a 1 1/2 loop trail and when we returned to the parking lot the other car was gone.  We never saw or heard anything! 

 

 



 

 

A ways up the Rogue River...the mail boats use to go from Gold Beach to the town of Agness to deliver mail.  Now the Jet Boats do the 63 mile round trip with tourists... 

 

 

 

An old tug boat sunk at the mouth of the Rogue River.

 

 

Friday morning we headed down to Brookings as our southern turn around point before heading home.  The fog was in but the coast was still pretty....

 

 

 

 

Happy travels.





2014 NW Quilt Expo

Pure Eye Candy:

 Jean Wells - it is always exciting to get a close up look at one of her quilts.

 Our very own Georgia French (OR SAQA member)!

 

The finger of 'god'!  Must be my sister????

 

 

The center of this quilt was actually a panel which made me look twice.  It was very well done.

 



 

The camera kept flashing 'low on battery' so was never sure how many more pics I was going to be able to get.  All the quilts entered deserved to be seen here as eye candy.... BUT what a fantastic day!

To share this with my daughter and sister made for a perfect day! 

So many quilts were left without a picture being taken .... you just had to be there to appreciate the awesomeness of the displayed quilts.

(we won't talk about the vendor purchases!!!!)

Happy love of quilting!