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Breast Cancer Quilt Exhibit, Canada

The link below will get you into the Stratford, Ontario exhibit, there are two others traveling across the country. Stratford is a small city in southwestern Ontario and this exhibit was started by a survivor. It's well known and people from all across Canada donate quilts they've made for the auction to raise money for cancer research. If you go to the fourth page, you'll find # STFD-62, Francoise Bebbington, Emblems of Hope and Peace. The design is my Canadian Provincial Wildflower design and is a wall hanging size. It was machine quilted which doesn't show up on the screen but is exquisite. www.thequilt.com/exhibits/index.html

Driving to Stratford, about an hour and a half from home, took the backroad route through Mennonite Country and today, most farmers were out tilling the land either by machine or, more specially for us, by foot behind two draft horses. The old order Mennonite don't use machinery. We saw little children in straw hats, women in their dresses and bonnets using rototillers on their vegetable gardens and it was like a time warp and such a pleasant one for us to see.

Jean's husband is heading across the west to help with the planting, all of Canada is waking up from winter.

Marion, what great news for the family. I wonder if that little babe will end up sailing the world too, like his parents. I'm sure the quilt will be a thrill for them to receive.

Rosey

posted by RoseyP @ 6:28 PM