It's been over a month since I posted last. Been very busy! Our anniversary was July 5th and we took a little trip to the Robison York Herb Gardens in Ithaca, NY. I've been there many times, but not since they revitalized the gardens. What a lovely job they did. We also went to Baker's Acres nursery, which is just north of Ithaca. Tremendous gardens and wide selection of plants. I came home with many new things for the garden including a hardy gloxinia, acanthus and lavender mint.
Middleburgh, NY has started a farmer's market on Friday afternoons and we have participated as a vendor. Really good turnouts.
We had a garden club tour the gardens and it was a lovely group indeed. Lots of interested, interesting ladies. As they were leaving, a reporter from the Catskill Mountain Guide magazine showed up to do an interview about the gardens. The August issue should hit stands soon and I'm eagerly awaiting to see what was written!
Then, I was off to the Maine State Quilt to teach for a few days. Never mind driving through horrendous rainstorms, tornado warnings and hail to get there!! White knuckle driving, to say the least. On the way up, I decided to take a side trip to Avena Botanicals and Deb Soule's gardens there.
Be still my heart! Deb has created a magical fairy world of plants and I was lucky enough to experience it. ~sigh~Green Spiral Herbs was asked to set up an herbal display for the Schoharie County Fair, which is running this week. We were happy to oblige. Saturday, I will be on hand to answer herbal questions.
Wednesday, I had my interview with David Winston to see about getting accepted into his 2-year herbal study program. The answer is yes! I'm pretty excited about this. I've done other herbal studies, but am looking forward to this particular program. Hooray!
Today, I found out my crazy quilt wall hanging, "Birds of a Feather" won an Honorable Mention in the Hoffman Challenge. There were 579 entries. Considering I didn't put a single quilting stitch in this "quilt", I think I did well. It is entirely hand pieced and hand embellished/embroidered.
5 comments:
I've sort of wondered why you've been so quiet, but it's good to see that it was a happy chain of events.
Congratulations on all of your achievements!
Yahoo! What a beautiful quilt and I'd love to see it in person. Maybe if things work out I might make it to Kansas in November. I have my fingers crossed ....
Congratulations Betty! Your CQ is awesome!
Beautiful quilt (quilted or not)!Congratulations on your win! We may get these quilt judges trained yet!
Well, I see you haven't lost your touch. The Hoffman challenge CQ is wonderful. I love the variety of stitching. Not surprising it won an honorable mention. Looking forward to seeing it in person one of these days soon.
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