After spending a couple days in Winnipeg with
new quilter friends at the Manitoba quilt guild, Friday I flew with our
polar bear tour group up to Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay.
Serendipitously, Paula Nadelstern and I arrived in Winnipeg the same day, and I got to have lunch
with her and sit in on her Kaleidoscope class, where she was previewing her new
collection "Palindrome". Wow, what a gorgeous collection! We'll have
it in the warehouse in about a week, and I can tell you the dreamy metallic
blenders are just as irresistible as her fabulous multicolor designs!
Next week on Nov 20, I will be giving a presentation for Quilt Manitoba, on the
Modern Quilt Movement in North America as well as a slide show on the Houston
Quilt Festival 2013. The event will be from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM in the
'Embassy E' room at The Victoria Inn (near the airport). There is no charge for
this lecture.
One of the things I really enjoyed during my short time in Winnipeg, was the amazing
amount of murals on buildings all over town, created by local artists. There
are over 500 of these outdoor paintings! Talk about a city supporting its
artist community!
I am writing this late Friday night, because we are leaving at 7:30 am Saturday
and will be out on the tundra for 8 hours, looking
for polar bears! Today we
saw a bear on the way from the airport to the hotel, got our Passports
stamped with the Churchill Polar Bear stamp, we saw a big Inuksuk on the shores
of Hudson Bay, had a lecture while visiting the Eskimo Museum, we listened to a native Dene elder tell her story about her life's journey, and then I came back to my room and watched a red
fox and a couple white arctic foxes run back and forth all night outside my hotel window.
