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Welcome to the website of Hall's Harbour Handcrafts, located close to the ruggedly beautiful Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, on Canada's East coast. My quilt studio is in my 1820's heritage home, surrounded by trees and wild gardens. Enjoy the peace and serenity which inspires my work. Visit the nearby fishing village of Hall's Harbour where you can observe the action of the world's highest tides. Visit artists' studios, hunt for antiques and sample seafood and lobster. If you wish to stay a while, there are several bed and breakfasts in the village and lots of other things to do and see nearby. If you cannot visit my studio in person, rest
assured that my custom quilts are made in the traditional way - entirely
by hand every step of the way. They are made of the finest available
100% cotton materials in a smoke-free home, and are truly one-of-a-kind.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008 Will Spring Come This Year?  We woke up to 6 inches of wet, heavy, yucky snow yesterday morning and I had to get the neighbour with his snowblower down to deal with it! Blech!! I'm reading lots of seed catalogues and wishing these days! It is helping me to get lots of quilting done though. I have a major quilt at the handquilting phase right now and I'm very pleased with it indeed. A well, I am dealing with a couple of smaller commissions, which present seperate challenges - this is always fun! The quilt kit shown above is one of my vintage Paragon kits complete with suitable floss for embroidery - I looked it out and photographed it for a prospective purchaser who found the king sized version a bit large for her bed and so passed on it.  One of my "recreational" projects is an online tutorial for my "Sea Creatures" quilt (http://www.quiltingwithjanet.blogspot.com) and I find I am going to end up with two seperate concepts for the same basic idea - these smaller quilts - child sized or wall hanging size will be for sale when I have completed them or sooner if you want to contact me. I am working on building up some stock for the "walk-in" tourist traffic I get at my quilt studio because of its location near the very popular destinaton of Hall's Harbour, Nova Scotia, so I expect these smaller quilts will go quickly. Shown below is one of two amish style strippy quilts I am currently handquilting. I have become fascinated with the endless variations that can be achieved withing the framework of solids only and limited colour palette, and I find I keep returning to play with ideas.  Check here for the link to my other blog - quilting with janet.blogspot.com Labels: hand quilting, my designs, quilt studio, tourism, tutorial 2:52 PM (0) comments
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Recent Posts: WWW.SIMPLEQUILTMAKING.COM Will Spring Come This Year? A TRADITIONAL FLYING GEESE QUILT VINTAGE IDEAL ABC YOYO BOUDOIR CUSHION COVER A CHANGE IN PACE HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY SNOW DAY MY BIG QUILT PROJECT FOR 2008 DOUBLESTENCIL AMERICAN HERITAGE FLORAL APPLIQUE QU... VINTAGE PARAGON QUILT KITS AN UPDATE ON MY FOLK ART INVENTORY Archived Posts: July 2005 August 2005 October 2005 December 2005 June 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 March 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 |
