Sunday afternoon we took a hike up Zaison Hill (finally! It's only taken us 4+ years to do this). The October weather was spectacular (God bless global warming--especially in Mongoila--is what I say :) As far as we could figure out, this hill is a monument to Russian victories in World War II, as well as Mongolian/Russian collaboration. As you can see in the 1st picture, there are what surely are a gazillion steps! Once up there (whew!), I did manage some nice snapshots of several lovers as well as, once again, the contrast between the modern city and the traditional hashaa districts. Much of what is in the city veiws did not exist even 4 or 5 years ago. Amazing to have a front row seat to all this change!
I'm so tickled to be a part of this year's Bloggers' Quilt Festival ! My entry was done in Outer Mongolia (literally! --read on). This quilt is one of my favorite recent projects that I named "Renegade Geisha's" --renegade because two of the geisha's don't conform to the rest (mainly because I ran out of coordinating fabrics!). Can you find the two renegades? ;) The quilt incorporates fabric origami and the quilt itself is from Fantastic Fabric Folding --many projects from this book were a big hit with the Mongolian class pictured below. Due to my husband's work, we live in Mongolia; and I was privileged to teach classes at a local quilting studio. I've included a picture of the class where we were working on the geisha blocks. The students spoke almost no English and I speak what I call Monglish--a lot of English sprinkled with Mongolian. Regardless, we all had a blast! ...and, I'm very pleased with this quilt of mine!
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