Utah-New Mexico Vacation – Part 2

Bryce Canyon National Park was our favorite park that we visited on this trip.  The scenery at Bryce takes your breath away!
These pictures were taken from various view points in Bryce Canyon.


This is my husband–standing on the edge of Bryce Canyon.

In the gift shop at the entrance to Bryce there were some quilt kits to make your own souvenir of Bryce Canyon.  The kits contained the photo blocks and the pattern.  You have to add your own batik fabrics to make the block sashing and quilt borders.  I picked up one of these kits.

Who knew that you could find something quilt related in a National Park?

Utah-New Mexico Vacation – Part 1

We recently returned home from a holiday to the U.S. – a 20 day tour (Sept 21 to Oct 10) that took us south of Saskatchewan through Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico and then back north through Colorado, and the Dakotas to Saskatchewan. 
With two cameras between my husband and I, we managed to bring home over 3,000 pictures.  It has taken me hours to sort through those pictures to choose just a few to share here on my blog.  Even though I thought I was just picking a few pictures, I have ended up with 11 posts! 
This was my third tour and my husband’s first tour with Ryjo Tours out of Tessier, Saskatchewan.  http://www.ryjotours.ca/index.html

The scenery on this trip was constantly changing.  We often looked out of the window as we were travelling to see the most interesting landscapes. 
This picture was taken near Grand Junction, Colorado. 

When we were in Moab, Utah, we visited Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Dead Horse Point State Park.

This is a picture of Balanced Rock in Arches.

This is a picture of the famous Delicate Arch, also located in Arches.  This is the rock formation that is on the Utah state licence plate.

This is the view from Dead Horse Point State Park.  You can see the windy roads that the Jeeps and ATV’s travel on to explore the canyons.

These pictures were taken in Canyonlands.

This was a picture I quickly snapped as I was getting back on the bus after a lunch break in Richfield, Utah.

The next two pictures were taken at Red Canyon, just outside of Bryce Canyon National Park.

Harrison Mills Quilt Show

This weekend was the annual Harrison Mills Quilt Show.  A small group of quilters–The Stitch and Rip Group–meet weekly in the hall to share their love of quilting and once a year, in October, they host a small quilt show featuring the talents of local quilters.  This is a fund raiser to support the upkeep of the hall.
 
 
This year, I entered six quilts.
 

1.  Lap size All About Halloween

2.  Pumpkin Warm Wishes

3.  Halloween Contemporized Country Squares

4.  Halloween Scrappy Log Cabins (on the left and Contemporized Country Squares on the right)

5.  JR1600 – Ladybugs in the grass

6.  Bear Paw

Line Art / Skinny Strips and a House Warming

Tonight was the housewarming party for our daughter and her fiance.  They took possession of their new house on September 1, 2011.
My daughter had expressed interest in my Line Art / Skinny Strips flimsy when it was on the design wall so I quilted it up and presented it to them as a housewarming gift.
This was the quilt that we worked on in August during Linda’s PAR-TAY.  http://silverthimblequilting.blogspot.com/2011/08/third-fab-birthday-par-tay-of-2011.html