Sharing our stories...

I joined the Quilt Alliance a couple of years ago 

when I thought it would be fun to head to Quilters Take Manhattan

Since that time, 

I have met lots (!!!) of wonderful people,

made some great friends...

learned a lot about the quilting world 

and

I even entered a little quilt in their contest!

To top it off, 

they have a really great mission too!!!

Check out their video...

(if you watch it all, you may spot me helping out!)

and so...

I will keep creating and telling my stories

(my latest project is well underway!!!)

Great friends from afar.....

Several years ago, I began following a blog of a group of twelve fiber artists who met online and shared an art journey together.

Eventually, one of its founders, Diane Perrin Hock, offered to help create new groups of those interested in beginning a joint online art journey... and so, I became a member of Tangled Textiles!!

Over these last several years, as a group...

 

we have grown to be friends...

 

we have gotten to know each others' styles....

 

shared our lives ...

enjoyed some laughs ...

shared our sorrows...

 

some of us have met in person...

 

and we have evolved as artists...

 

All of which make for great friends--

even if we are physically distant. 

  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

-Marcel Proust

...and I am blooming!

Hop on over to our blog to see all of our beautiful art and our latest challenge!

My 500th post!!!!!!

Hard to believe!

It all started here one fall day in October 2007...

I began blogging!

The idea was to chronicle my quilting journey as it fit into my every day life.

I named my blog with the name I had given myself on my yahoo account.

You must all know the story by now...

too many Lisa's,
settling in upstate NY
and voila!

Hey, I became so famous that I had my own bus!

(yeah right!)

The first quilt I ever blogged about was my Elvis quilt

And when I wasn't blogging about big quilts
I was blogging about smaller stuff to swap with new friends on flickr.
 
 I blogged about my first doll quilt swap that I entered...


(and boy did those swaps become addicting!)

I introduced you to my family...



(and how they have grown since this photo was taken!)


Nature Boy

and some of his quilts...

A teenager with lots of stuff
and her quilts...

(the first bed quilt that I ever made!)

and last but not least,

Sugarbaby (the former "Sloppy")

and her quilts...

And my,

how I have grown too!!!

Well not taller 

and I have been working on not getting wider too!!

But I have evolved...

I have gone from simple...

and scrappy...

to wonky...

and free pieced...

tried some solids...

 and more recently,
 worked on more free form...

And now,

there are all the other areas of media 

that I have added to my repertoire

painting...

art journaling...

monoprinting...

hand dyeing...

and even some homeschooling on the side!

I might even be found striking a pose on my blog...

hoping to find myself on the front of a Wheaties box ...

appearing incognito as the infamous garbage bag fairy...

and often,

on the floor of my sewing room...

And even though I am constantly getting older

and older 

and older...

I have managed to get faster!

Yesterday, I shaved 1 minute and 28 seconds off

my time from my last 5k run

(and this race started at the bottom of a hill, no less!)

But what makes blogging so much fun is that
blogging has opened up a whole new world of friends!

I appreciate you all!

I am grateful for the inspiration and friendship

you have brought to my life!

From my clean (ha,ha!) studio...

to yours....

Thank you for popping by!

Is anyone still out there?!!!

It seems that a little time has passed since I blogged last!

Readers come
and
readers go

but I always seem to return.

I just haven't had much time to post

nor much to post about lately.

But it seems that I am up to my 498th post, crazy as it seems (!)

so it was high time that I blab a bit.

Sugarbaby and I went on a little trip

to my homeland


(the great WHITE north)

to check in with my family


(Ottawa at night)

see a friend


(Michele and adorable Milo)

visit some sites

(the National Gallery of Canada)

but

I am still journaling every day this month for NaNoJouMo

(it's day #27 of 30!)

I am still piecing this pinwheel quilt

(and discovered that I need to make 11 more pinwheel blocks! ...sigh)

I am still making crumb blocks for my Crumb Along quilt

but now I am wondering
how I might celebrate my 500th post....

Got any ideas?

Gotta run...

and get back to my regularly scheduled life!