We’re leaving Bayeux France

French bread, Woven baskets Cheeses of every variety. Fresh fruit and vegetables. Huge pots of delicious smelling food.Spruikers shouting, chickens, pheasants and turkeys joining their chorus Rows and rows of brightly colour flowers….   Lunch of French bread and chocolate croissant on a high cliff overlooking the sea. Our last day in Bayeux.

Oh Dear.

We’ve almost finished filming and the weather has been most kind to us…. Just one more day and I’m off home… There are two quilt shops here in Bayeux…. The first is in the main street and carries, books, embroidery supplies, yarn, about 20 bolts of American fabric and wait for it folks…… there is…

Slide Show

Slide show of Bayeux and Mont Saint Michel It was a quiet day today…. Friend Caroline returned to England and Jamie and I needed a day to catch our breath. No filming today. However, the market is our goal tomorrow and I have heard of a quilt guild meeting so I’ll be off there as…

This morning, we drove through misty fields and small villages, the stone houses with high pitched rooves rise close to the road and are decorated with pale blue flower boxes brimming over with red geraniums and brightly colored flowers. I have to pinch myself that I am actually here.We drove to Le Mont Saint-Michel… too…

Bayeux Pilgrimage.

Have you ever become so immersed in a doing something that your whole focus in life changes?Years of research and I know the images on the tapestry as well as I know an illustration that I execute……or a quilt that I have created. I do a little work on the Bayeux project every day, even…

I have been to Bayeux before. it was 2 years ago in late November, it was cold, a little lonely and rather damp.Today I had the joy of sharing it with Jamie and Caroline, I’ll talk about Bayeux tomorrow. Jamie thinks he could live here forever.Caroline is looking forward to exploring tomorrow…she’s found that embroidery…

How does this relate to Quilting.

We’ve put in almost 12 hours today. Filming outside the Louvre, Notre Dame, in coffee shops, walking the streets and markets and capturing people in the street for interviews. I’m sure we walked more than yesterday. We had a few miles to walk home and decided to catch the Metro….(Thankfully) Question ………How does this relate…

Mona Lisa

If you look carefully you can see the Mona Lisa smiling right down the back of the gallery. I did push through the throng at one stage and then retreated to take this photo. 1000’s of other devotees had the same idea. It was a little like a football scrum. A man in front of…