The Cloth Shop, Granville Island, Polka Dots and Flowers.

My favourite quilt shop where I took my first classes has moved after more than 25 years in the same location.  They are now located down on Granville Island in Vancouver B.C.

 Follow the signs and they are easily found at 1551 Johnston Road on the island.

 Maria and Barbara welcome you to their new shop.

 They are having fun decorating it and the doors had just opened a few minutes earlier.

 The shop is full of colourful fabrics and helpful books.

 Their fat quarter wagon is tucked into a natural light corner.

Love the light blue walls with the cream and white accents.

 Check out the displays high above you, love the lamb.

 Kaffe Fasset has come and taught at their shop several times and they have a lovely display of his books and fabrics.

 Sharing a smile and a few words with their customers, still setting up displays.

 Around the corner is the large Public Market with lots of fresh vegetables for purchase.

 Lots of fresh local seafood.

 Lots of berries waiting to be taken home.

 Tarts from Stuarts Bakery if you are too lazy to make your own.

 Lots of vendors with wares for sale.  These are Pots & Panzies by Nellie Vlaar; I love all the polka dots with black white and strong clear colours.

 Crows and Scottie dogs, two of my favourites.

 Tea for one?

 Great serving bowls and unique designs.  Check out her website at www.gidva.org  Next time I visit something will be coming home with me!

 Love the signage around the market.

 The Salmon Shop is one of the original vendors along with Duso's Italian foods.

 My on line Mary Lou Weidman group is doing a polka dot teacup exhange.  Here are some of my inspiration.

 Two more with the reverse theme.

 I couldn't pick just one colour so I decided to make mine rainbowed coloured.

 Hints of strawberry teas to be happening soon.

 Poppy buds ready to break forth into bloom.

 Here is a yellow one!

 The Fraser River is tidal, here is a sand bar in front of my condo.

 The tulips are on their last days.

 Look at all the colours.

 Yellow and pink almost look like feathers.

 The classic tulip shape with a splash of red.

 Peonies in full bloom already, with more promising buds.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Kaffe Fasset Lecture and Workshop

Friday night I had the opportunity to attend a lecture on colour with Kaffe Fasset.  Saturday I had an all day workshop with him and Brandon Mably.  It was a wonderful experience to spend time with these two creative gentlemen.

 They suggest using a grey, taupe or cocoa coloured flannel as a background for your design wall.  Here is an early start on the piece I was working on.  I didn't do a lot of pre-cutting before class.

 This is my neighbour Lynn's piece.  She has a circle theme going on with some  of her fabrics.  It was fun to see how different people placed their fussy cut florals.

 Across from Lynn was Ione who had some luscious reds and orange florals in her piece. 

 Across from me sat their friend Yoshiko, she had some amazing large florals that I wish I had found.

 Farther along from us was this lovely pastel piece by Marilyn.  It looks so cool.

 Here is my piece after lunch.  I decided to interview some different corner stones.  There is a mottled black in the top left, below it is a turquoise blueberry print.  To the right is a batik of green and turquoise bubbled on a black background and below a blue/green geometric print.  Right away I knew the turquoise was too light and the black made holes.  The is idea is to create a snowball shape of circles.

 This is Kathleen's piece, she has a great print of Brandon's called scribble that will be her cornerstone.

 Here is Lynn's piece with a great red cornerstone fabric.

 Ione pieced a terracotta cornerstone.  Here piece is just lovely.

 The room had a small children's corner that utilized.  That border fabric would look great on either one of the quilts.  It is pencils laid end to end designed by Kaffe.

  A lovely yellow and orange quilt.

 The room was alive with lots of florals and colour! 

 This gal chose to use some bold graphic fabrics along with some black and white.  She has a black and white cornerstone in the top right and a green one in the right middle area that she is considering. Oh I just noticed a mossier green one in the middle left side also.

 This one has some more life-like florals used.

 Gaye stared with only 6 fabrics.  Kaffe took her fabric shopping to expand her stash.  At the end of the workshop there was a door prize of some fabrics and one of his books.  Gaye won it!  Lucky girl.

 This gal and her friend were only using greyed Thimbleberry/Jinny Beyer style fabrics.

 The room had lots of space and light in it.

 Everyone was busy cutting, auditioning, creating.

 Piles of fabric were all around.  Options were welcomed from everyone.

 This started out as one quilt and became two!

Yosiko's quilt on the left, mine in the centre and Lynn's on the right just before we packed up for the day. It was a long but fruitful adventure.  We were so glad to be the first stop on his 5 week lecture/workshop tour finishing in Houston.  Many thanks for Barbara and Maria from the Cloth Shop for hosting this event!