Sierra Mountain Quilters Association

Happy New Year! I hope this coming year will find you healthy, happy and feeling creative. Your sewing area doesn’t need to be as a neat as a pin to create and neatness isn’t necessarily an important New Year’s resolution. With that said, I’m looking forward to seeing your creativity on
display at our May quilt show. There is lots to do until then and I hope you all pitch in to make our show a success.
Happy New Year
Betsy

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I had a wonderful trip to Africa! It’s difficult to describe the impact of seeing so many animals, previously only glimpsed on TV or in a zoo, roaming around freely and ignoring us completely. People we met seemed content with their lives in spite of lacking most of the modern conveniences we take for granted. We also greatly enjoyed visiting an elementary school and interacting with the students.

“My” kids had a wonderful time looking at pictures and videos in my phone, especially a video of my 18- month-old great-grandson trying to feed himself. We visited a workshop where single mothers and survivors of domestic violence make the most beautiful hand-shaped, hand-painted beads which they make into jewelry (check out kobetough.com). The clay is harvested locally, soaked and cleaned, formed, painted, and fired – all by members of the collective. What a wonderful example of people taking something nearly useless, and turning it into objects of art and beauty! In a sense, isn’t that what we, as quilters, do with many of our projects – especially when we are using scraps and odd bits from our stash? Bev