Exciting, exhilarating and Exhausting

Whew!! I survived yet another weekend of lecturing at the Creative Sewing and Needlework festival in Toronto, Ontario.

It's one of those amazing experiences that take a lot of prep work and a lot of 'show' time but it's also a great time for renewing and rejuvenate the creative juices. I have yet to attend the show either as a consumer or an artist and not come away without at least one new idea, thought or process. Sometimes I wish that I had come away with only one. ;-)

To those who attend my lectures - thank-you, you are the reason that I continue to get invited back and the reason that I love to do what I do. For the most part what I do is quilting but it has taken on new directions in these last few years. Especially since I have found ways to combine a new passion with an old one - beads and sparkles with quilting. Your feedback and continued support help keep me fired up !

It's also interesting how at one show I can see a technique and see no potential in it and at the next show it sparks a whole new thought process......I'll let you know how it goes and if what I saw in my head works out in reality...if it does I have found an interesting way to get shimmery water into my quilted landscape pieces.