Good day everyone. Sometime in the summer months, I submitted an essay to Quilting Arts magazine, in response to their call for “The Last Word”. The Last Word is, not coincidentally, on the last page of each issue of the magazine. The subject matter of the essay was, basically,  “What is your quilting legacy?”

Amazingly, my essay was chosen to be published in this month’s issue! December, 2018. I was so delighted when Vivika DeNegre the Editorial Director of the magazine (which is owned by F+W Media) contacted me to let me know my writing and photos would fill the last page of the last issue of this year. Yippee!

It’s a curious thing; to write about what one would like to leave behind when they are no longer here. Can quilts become your legacy? Will your loved ones appreciate the meaning behind the quilts you have made? Is there a little piece of your heart that resides in each and every quilt you have ever made?

If you’d like to get yourself a copy of this month’s Quilting Arts magazine, you may do so here –

https://www.quiltingcompany.com/store/quilting-arts-december-2018-january-2019-print-edition .

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I’d love to hear about your quilting legacy! Leave me a comment and I will read it.

Thanks so much.

Kim

In honour of the snow

we are having another contest on our Facebook group page, Quilting for Kids. If you love to quilt for your children and/or grandchildren, why not join us? You can do that by clicking here.

Once there, you can enter the contest by reading the first post. The contest is open until the end of December, 2018.

The prizes are a fabric bundle containing ten fat quarters and a copy of the December issue of Quilting Arts magazine.

 

So have some fun! Enter our contest. You may just win!

Kim

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving everyone. After having a few beautiful sunny days, we’re back to snow on this Monday. Big, chunky, fluffy snowflakes falling again. There’s really only one question to ask – Why?

On one of the nicer, sunny days in late September, our son’s memorial bench was installed by the City of Calgary. I couldn’t wait to get over to the park and take a look!

We walked through the ravine.

Past the Crowchild Twin Arenas, where this little guy had burrowed a home into the side of the hill and found himself a great spot in the sun.

Once at the park and playground, there was Mike’s bench, just where we wanted it to be.

The bench overlooks not only the playground, but also the baseball diamond and a really beautiful vista.

We chose this spot for Mike’s bench because he was so very happy playing in this park…behind the houses where we used to live. He and his friends, especially his little buddy, Sanjeev so loved this place.

Sitting there in this beautiful, peaceful place I just cried and cried.

We were so grateful to have found the exact place where Mike’s bench should be. Hopefully, lots of kids and their parents will sit there while they’re at the playground or playing baseball or walking their dogs. It’s such a privilege to be able to remember our lovely son this way.

Kim

Good day everyone. Thank you so very much for stopping by.

For the first time ever, I was gobsmacked at  the grocery store! Yes, it’s true. I was aimlessly walking the aisles at Co-op, sauntering here and there when I decided to stop in the “greeting card aisle” and have a peek at the latest quilt magazines…Quilting Arts, Easy Quilts and Modern Quilt magazine. But, my eye was drawn to Quilter’s World magazine with the lovely autumn colours on the cover. It was so fall-ish! So warm and inviting.

Standing there, my shopping cart filled with eggs and veggies and jujubes, flipping through the pages of the issue, I stopped with a jolt on page 57. “Quilting in the Canadian Rockies” by Kim Hanson! What was this? My article? This was the first time ever I was surprised to see my own written words. But there they were in black and white.

I had written the piece for Quilter’s World’s Winter 2017 issue. Unfortunately, they had run out of space for that issue and my article was “shelved”. That had never happened to me before, so I didn’t know what to expect. I was paid, but would my piece ever be published? I really didn’t know.

So here it was, much to my delight and surprise. I worked hard on this piece and loved writing it. I got to drive out to Canmore

several times to visit with quilters in the area, to photograph them and their quilts. I met Leah and Dean Murphy, the owners of The Sugar Pine Company, a destination quilt shop nestled in the Canadian Rockies. They were lovely and I got some great shots of both of them and their wonderful quilt shop.

I met Jillian Roulet, an art quilter of distinction. Her quilts are unique, impressively creative and little jewels of art. She lives a “mountain” lifestyle, in that she lives among the evergreens in the forest, the deer in the front yard and essentially creates every day.

QW also published a photo of my quilt, which I call Carina. It had previously been featured on the cover of one of Annie’s Publications.

I am extremely grateful to both Carolyn Vagts and Barb Sprunger at Quilter’s World magazine for their guidance, expertise and finesse. Thank you ladies!

Kim