On Thursday evening I demonstrated  hand stitching on paper techniques at the Vancouver Guild of Fiber Artists meeting. Their “wrap up for the season” meeting included card making, strawberry shortcake ( yum!),  tea and a hat parade as the grand finale. The members visited different stations around the room for inspiration and ideas and then got to work making cards. Supplies were brought in and the members of the guild could dip and create! They could make as many cards as they could get done in the allotted time as long as one “Thank You” card was made and donated to the guild for future use. What a great idea and a terrific way to gather handmade cards to thank teachers and speakers who visit the guild.

Everyone got right to work , most wearing their hats!

Judy had little strawberries on the side of her period hat.. and Anne Love dazzled in her spring “outfit”.

The evening was great fun, the strawberry shortcake was delicious! and the guild now has a collection of cards ready to go!

Thanks for organizing everything Judy, I had a great time!

On Saturday morning I loaded up the car and headed to Whistler for the Whistler Valley Quilters Guild Quilt Show, so more pictures to come in a day or two!

Catherine

PS I heard from the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project 2011 that my sketchbook has been added to the digital library! My book can be viewed  at

http://www.arthousecoop.com/library/910.

Art House mentions that it takes about 20 minutes to upload the entire book to the site, but it didn’t take anywhere near that long for me to view the book, it loaded really quickly!

Catherine