{"id":183,"date":"2013-11-16T21:02:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/hello-from-polar-bear-country"},"modified":"2015-03-07T00:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:06:59","slug":"hello-from-polar-bear-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/hello-from-polar-bear-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Polar Bear Country!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> up to Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay.<\/p>\n

Serendipitously, Paula Nadelstern<\/a> 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!<\/p>\n

Next week on Nov 20, I will be giving a presentation for Quilt Manitoba, on the
Modern Quilt<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

One of the things I really enjoyed during my short time in Winnipeg, was the amazing
amount of murals on buildings all over town<\/a>, created by local artists. There
are over 500 of these outdoor paintings! Talk about a city supporting its
artist community!<\/p>\n

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<\/a>! Today we
saw a bear<\/a> on the way from the airport to the hotel, got our Passports
stamped with the Churchill Polar Bear stamp, we saw a big Inuksuk<\/a> on the shores
of Hudson Bay, had a lecture while visiting the Eskimo Museum<\/a>, we listened to a native Dene elder tell her story<\/a> about her life's journey, and then I came back to my room and watched a red
fox<\/a> and a couple white arctic foxes<\/a> run back and forth all night outside my hotel window. <\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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