Weekly Wondering

In my heart I had hoped that 2021 was to be the year of calm and intelligent conversation. While understanding that the vaccine (did everyone forget that viruses mutate?) would not bring immediate results, I had hoped that more people would stay home, following protocols to help stop the spread with 2 mutations (at least) of the Coronavirus rampaging the world.

Instead millions of people (including some of my family’s in laws 🤯) travelled. With numbers climbing already the travel and holiday surge is going to kill millions worldwide.

My DH is back to watching hours of news every day and I am thoroughly horrified by what is going on in America with the never ending elections and the orange monster creating such havoc, misinformation and division among the American people.

In fact, we both are sitting watching the results of the Georgia runoff as I’m writing this and knitting. So much is at stake with these results.

I had hoped that by summer or early fall we might be able to travel to both America and The Province of Alberta to see relatives, but I’m thinking that next winter might be closer to the probability.

The pandemic has caused another delay in my Avante being delivered. Over the holidays my tech had had a neighbour stop by to drop off a parcel (which had been delivered in error to the neighbors) to my guys’ wife. The neighbours unknowingly had Covid-19 and spread it to my friend and his wife. They are all doing fairly well, but will be staying home for the meanwhile. It’s just that simple and easy to spread.

Earlier this morning I was reading emails and checking some of my favourite blogs and I came upon the announcement for the 2021 Island Batik Ambassadors.

Megan Best ~ Best Quilter
Pamela Boatright ~ PamelaQuilts
Elizabeth DeCroos ~ Epida Studio
Jennifer Eubank ~ Archipelago Quilting
Jennifer Fulton ~ The Inquiring Quilter

Preeti Harris ~ Sew Preeti Quilts
Joanne Hart ~ Unicorn Harts
Mania Hatziioannidi ~ Mania For Quilts
Jane Hauprich ~ Stitch By Stitch Custom Quilting
Connie Kauffman ~ Kauffman Designs

Emily Leachman ~ The Darling Dogwood
Denise Looney ~ For The Love Of Geese
Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights
Sally Manke ~ Sally Manke, Fiber Artist
Maryellen McAuliffe ~ Mary Mack Made Mine

Claudia Porter ~  Create with Claudia
Gail Renna ~ Quilt Haven Threads
Brianna Roberts ~ Sew Cute and Quirky
Michelle Roberts ~ Creative Blonde
Gail Sheppard ~ Quilting Gail

Andi Stanfield ~ True Blue Quilts
Jennifer Thomas ~ Curlicue Creations
Suzy Webster ~ Websterquilt
Janet Yamamoto ~ Whispers of Yore

Congratulations to all! It was exciting to see some favourite familiar faces returning and to also see there are some new ones. I had really enjoyed last year with the Ambassadors so it will be fun to see what these creative minds do.

Thank you for reading another long post. I’ll leave you with a more positive note. 😀Carol