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First Day of Summer/Summer Solstice Haiku Challenge:
The first day of summer is Thursday, June 21st. Can you write a haiku for June 21st that says it all? The haiku has 5, 7, 5 syllables for each line and the lines don't rhyme. I will post all that come in and if you insist without the author's name. I have several that will work but to be fair, I'll write a new one, therefore we will have exactly the same amount of time to deliver the haiku. Email them to me by end of June 20th. A prize is a possibility if you can out haiku me!
All I can say is impressive! The collection is posted here. You get to decide which haiku says it all! Send me an email to vote for your “one” favorite by end of day, June 21st. I added mine in the mix to keep this competition fair. I will announce the winner through the musing list and yes there will be a prize. Thanks much for being a good sport and taking the haiku challenge. To a fantastic summer!
Colourful Stitches' Newsletter
Well sort of, it’s more like my musing. What's a musing? That's anyone guess, I'll make it up as I go along. I plan to send two types of emails: Haiku for today and What's New for Colourful Stitches. You can read or delete at will based on the subject line. Let me know if you want some of your friends added to the list or you're getting multiply emails or you want off the list. I'm crossing my fingers that I get no bounces. (Click here for sign-up)
Summer Workshop Series
Come quilt with me and be part of the inaugural workshops supporting my up coming book, Quilts: Unfinished Stories with New Endings. Workshops will be held in Churchville, MD at Holy Trinity Church’s Parish House, 2959 Level Road (RT 155), from 9 am to 4:30 pm. Send me an email if you want to register, cost is $25 (includes the pattern).
June 16, 2007, Crazy Ann: This block can be found in antique and eclectic scrap quilts during the 30s and 40s. Once you see it, you tend to see it everywhere. I started my love for this block with the collection of 25 antique blocks pieced from shirting, more specifically, very pale and delicate shirting. My rendition reminds me of summer’s heat and slurping Tootie Fruitie water ice. Get excited and use the boldest of your stash! The blocks will be made using Triangles on a Roll paper.
July 14, 2007, Lemoyne Star: Oh boy, don’t even think you’re doing “y” seams. We’re going to get pass this fear and move forward with ease using my “proven” technique. It will be painless, I promise. The blocks finish to 7” and are set with alternating squares and the whole thing is on point. The Lemoyne Star angles are 45 degrees and we will use a special ruler. Once you mastered this quilt, doing the Carpenter’s Wheel is a piece of cake, if we have time, I’ll shown you how.
August 4, 2007, Spider Hexagon: Old fashion and striking is all I can say about this graphic quilt. It combines the best of the 60 degree angle shapes. Got scraps and bits of fabric? Cut from the whole scrap box and a few larger pieces from your stash. You can get to a large quilt in a hurry and it will look like you took years. Learn to use the Super 60 ruler.
I am now conducting a middle school / high school program (Grade 8 and above), "Something to Say: The Art of Writing Haiku Poetry". For younger students, I perform readings and discussions from The Dream. If you are interested in scheduling a visit to your school, please contact me!
Something to Say: The Art of Writing Haiku Poetry
Can you craft one thought, in just one breath, using just seventeen syllables? I bet you can. It's fun, easy and so more like math than English. In just a few minutes, I'll help you master the wonderful art of haiku poetry. This is a hands on workshop designed with you in mind, because I know you have "something to say", so say it in Haiku.
Grade 8 to Adult
Free Stuff:
FPI Publishing and Colourful Stitches are proud to announce our first Internet sales promotion for:
We would like to see the books in every state in the union by December 2006. So to encourage you and your friends for spreading the word, visiting the our website (and purchasing), we are offering a FREE hand-dyed Silk scarf to the first person by state to order the Gift Set (The Dream and Poetry and Patchwork) through the shopping cart.
A very nice PDF ad sheet of each book can be viewed below:
Always In Colourful Stitches....Gyleen
Free Block of the Month : Canal Street Tiles starts in March 2006. Our plan is to post the first month in March. It will contain the supply list and instructions for piecing the block's border. April will have the first tile block. This will be a series of 12 months. We plan to so something special at the end for all those who ventured down Canal Street with us, but it will be a surprise.
A Dream Project
FPI Publishing is committed to providing you with the inspiration to read and being a "do-er". Just in case you don't have time to sew your own Dream Quilt, what about making a coloring book? Or a scrap book? Or a story book? For a great kids activity, click the link to a free down load of the sketches from The Dream. You can add your own "picture shapes" by tracing Mom's cookie cutters. The possibilities are endless. Basic supplies include card stock for mounting the pages (don't forget to add one for the cover), glue stick, safe scissors (make sure Mom's helping), pencil for tracing the cookie cutter shape, crayons to add the colour, hole punch and ribbon (to tie it all together for book). Don't forget to sign your name on the cover!
Recent Publications
Quilt Almanac 2007, Spinning Wheel, pg 26.
Quilt Almanac 2007, Anything Goes, pg 70.
Quick Quilts,
issue #80 , Savannah, pg 48.
Check out some of the Colourful Stitches Student's Work!
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