We just finished another Tsagaan Sar holiday here in Mongolia. Once again we were privileged to be invited into some one's home--on family day no less! This year Randy's coworker and friend, Shagai (in red on bottom left in the group photo), extended this special invitation. Each family makes 1,000 or more buutz (meat-filled dumplings) for the 2-3 day celebration. Shagai's mom (in light blue) made Randy special beef buutz knowing he doesn't care for the usual mutton ;) This little princess never woke up during the hour or so we were there. Too much Tsagaan Sar I guess.
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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