And off to New York and New Jersey!

Yes, can you believe it, I really did just come back from New Brunswick and here were are leaving again, it was a fast 4 days at home. And yes, spring has finally arrived in Calgary, we were all despairing that it would never come. It has been a long cold winter.It was just truly great in Sackville, New Brunswick at Mount Allison University for the EAC Seminar. I met just the best ladies, we had 4 fun and learning filled days of stitching. I love how the classes pan out and we all learn from each other. I had a day on Prince Edward Island and got to sit in the garden at Anne of Green Gables! Now I am off tomorrow to teach at Where Victoria's Angels Stitch and wow what a project that we will work on, I am very excited to show them. No hints! But I love it and it is very dear to my heart. Then next weekend I will be at Golden Thread Needlearts and another wow project - okay maybe one hint, I totally love this one too, it has my love of fonts/alphabets in it! I am working my fall classes..... and on the other pieces that will add into the Garden Secrets series that started with One Key, Two Tulips at Nashville, then One Bird and Three Bees in April, and now we will have 5 more in the next months to come in the Spring/Summer type feel for a total of 9. The ones that were seen in the Needlework Retailer ad - Three Poppies and One Acorn have a fall/autumn feel, so I decided to make it 2 sets of Garden Secrets as the colour choices just lended themselves to a seasonal theme. Happy stitching, jeannette

A busy Spring

Yes, can you believe it, I am leaving again very early Monday am. I think I just got home didn’t I? It sure feels like it. I couldn’t write upon return from my fabulous trip to Toronto and Needleworker’s Marketplace and then the Stitchville USA Spring Fling as I would have only spouted off my feelings of complete overwhelmingness(is that a word?)…. I took alot on and was really feeling the pressure, but….. YAY! I am almost done, and not a moment too soon as I leave in the morning for Sackville, New Brunswick and EAC Seminar!! How exciting! We shipped our boxes this past week… with my nails all bitten off because the fabric was delivered at only the very latest day it could; but come it did; although Pat at Lakeside and I were having fit with the border keeping the shipment way way too long…. oh it was an awful feeling. But all is good. I can say that now, so I can write without feeling sorry for myself anymore.

The events in Toronto and Minnetonka were totally awesome. I think just the best part of both was so many of you stitchers – are repeat attendees ( if you know what I mean! …. I love seeing you again that’s what I mean!) and took the time to come to either event and I just love that we can continue where we left off and share our lives for those few days and feel the sense of belonging that the stitching gives us.

So it’s off to seminar and meeting stitchers at the Maritime event. What a treat. I get to go see the Anne of Green Gables house, which I have always wanted to do ever since I designed Atlantic Seaboard in which the Heirs of L. M. Montgomery foundation so kindly let me use the house in the design.

The 2 new pieces for Where Victoria’s Angels Stitch in Clifton, NJ and Golden Thread Needlearts in Rochester, NY are beyond my expectation! I am so so excited for you to see. They both turned out so special and I am delighted.

Check with Pam at Red Apple Stitchery for a celebratory pattern of her 20 years in business! It’s applicious( okay I made that word up too!)

Looking forward to meeting you all again or for the first time. Don’t hesitate to come and talk to me, it’s what it is all about…. our shared love of stitching.

Jeannette xx

Spring!

I am just putting some finishing touches on things to take with me for the Needleworker's Market in Toronto and then on the event at Stitchville USA. It is all exciting. My pile in the office will be cleared today and that will be great.I wanted to post some pictures. One is of Paoloa Botti's work out of Luxembourg on My Stitching Album. I love how she put the titles of each page on the opposite side to show it. The spine is beyond what I had imagined, and well just the whole vision, it is just magnificent. Enjoy!

I do have more stitcher's work to load and if this works well I will try the others too!