Chicken Dreams

Spain redux! Ole!
My good friend, Rosario, sent me this wonderful video from her brother who is an ambassador for bicycle manufacturer, Strida. Strida makes an artfully designed folding bicycle which is part of the collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art. This video was taken from the perspective of the two-wheeler!
It is a creative tour-de-force of the art scene during the annual Spanish quilt festival. The video highlights the patchwork festival at the most picturesque sea-side town of Sitges, Spain.
Be sure to check out the "thumbs up man!" During the show there was a rumor of a romantic entanglement with this handsome man guarding my exhibit and me, but none of it is true.

Chicory on exhibit at QBL

In Up State
For the next week I'll be in Syracuse NY teaching at QBL (Quilting by the Lake). We are at a brand new community college, Onondaga, with beautiful dorms and great classrooms. The students are raring to go and I'm looking forward to meeting them and working with them for 2 classes. The workshop, Fusing Fun, lasts 2 days and Fuse and Tell lasts 3 days.
I hope to last 5 days.

Housing Department #20

Fibrations
One of the organizations I belong to is SAQA, Studio Art Quilt Associates. It's an international group whose mission is to educate and promote the art quilt as an art form. As a SAQA member, I'm eligible to enter many art exhibits that travel the world.

This quilt, Housing Department #20, was recently juried into Fibrations, a traveling SAQA exhibit that premiers at the Yellowstone Quilt Festival in Cody, Wyoming (Sept. 11-13). Then it's off to the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, CO (Nov. 6 - Jan. 31), the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Quilt Festival of New Jersey, and the NQA show in Columbus, OH.
Sometimes my quilts travel more than I do. I wonder if they can get frequent flyer miles?

Colorado Tunnels

At Altitude
Grand Junction, Colorado is one of my favorite places. Not only for the beautiful landscape, but because I have fun relatives here that feed me well.

Tomorrow I give 2 lectures, one in the morning for the Sunset Slope Quilters and in the evening, the Colorado West Quilters. I only hope I can survive all that singing. Being a low lander, not only is singing at altitude a challenge but thinking at altitude is a challenge. Wish me luck!