Baby, Ballet and a Quilting Workshop

  

  Brooklyn Kate born May 5th, 2011, 3 weeks early, but doing very well! - a new baby grand doughter.

 

Ballet has finished for the season.

                        

Two friends and I went to an Art Quilting Workshop with Liz Faminoff for 3 days in Armstrong. This is Liz'z sample

                           This is my quilt ready to be stitched. Everyone choose their own backgrounds. The fabric for the flowers was in a kit and was mostly shaded fabric. The flowers were cut out using the lighter part for the top of the poppy and the darker parts for the bottom. There was 2.5 hours of homework the first night, cutiing out endless leaves.  It was an intense workshop, but we all had a great time!

Deep Lake Hike April

Signs of Spring

goldfinch near our feeder

Spences Bridge Geo Trip April 8

Pictures from a recent day-trip to Spences Bridge

The pelicans are back at the marsh on the Old Merritt Highway. They don't live here, but pass through for feeding.

                                                        bridge on the old KVR line

                                                           tunnel on the KVR

Weaving Projects

I finished 3 coral chenille scarves with supplementary warp accents. I kept one for myself.  18epi 2/8 and 4/8 cotton with some tencel and orlec threads. Woven with a single strand of chenille. The coral chenille was from Cotton Clouds.

2 sets of 8 place mats and a runner in Summer and Winter, cotton and orlec

getting ready to do tea towels from 100% boucle in 5 colours.

Dewdrop, Tranquille

The other day we went for a hike in the Dewdrop, Tranquille are. The ground was still soft after winter and the grass was just starting to grow.

view of the Thompson river from the Red Lake Road

big horn sheep near Tranquille

view of Kamloops lake from the top of the bluff near the train tunnel while doing Mollie's Reach cache

                                                      Mollie's Reach 

As seen in our backyard

A red tailed hawk has been trying to make a home in the gully behind our house. Today I got it perusing our (empty) pond. It doesn't get much peace before the neighbourhood crows start harassing it, but it has been hanging around for about 3 weeks.

WIPs Landscape Quilts

I have 5 landscapes of Rocky Mountain scenes underway at the moment.

I finished 10 landscape cards that I made mostly to try out my new sewing machine.

                                                new Bernina especially for free motion

Sunday Hike

view of Tranquille on the way

Sunday was a warm spring day finally and we enjoyed getting out for a hike up Cinnamon Ridge to the hoodoos. There were 2 caches in the area, lots of cactus and the ticks were out. The grass is just starting to turn green and the snow is receding on the hills.  We ran out of time to do the other caches further up. We'll come back another day for them!