A potential Studio guest wanted to see some handmade journals, so l dug out some that I have made over the years. In the process, I found a travel journal that I made back in 2018 following an amazing three-week holiday in Canada and Alaska in honour of our 25th wedding anniversary (and the cashing in of an endowment mortgage policy). I don’t appear to have featured it on the blog before, so here goes:
It’s not just photographs that can prompt reminiscences of a wonderful holiday… Following the success of my USA quilt, I decided on our recent holiday to visit any quilt shop within driving/walking distance of our location at the time, with the intention of buying a kit illustrating an aspect of the holiday. This is the first that I have finished of the two kits I bought. It prompts memories of a horse-drawn carriage tour of Stanley Park in Vancouver. We had a stop off at a collection of totem poles as part of the tour.
The kit is from Quilts with a Twist bought in the Rushin’ Tailor quilt shop in Skagway, Alaska and featured a laser-cut fusible applique totem of an eagle and a bear. It included all the fabric required for the 18″x 40″ wall hanging to be completed. It took just over a day to finish.
I found the laser cut applique easy to use. If it wasn’t for my laser cutter recently dying I’d be having a go with my own designs…
