{"id":1269,"date":"2010-02-20T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2010-02-21T02:48:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T06:48:56","slug":"oh-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Canada!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just returned from Toronto! What a great bunch of quilters at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yhqg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">York Heritage Quilt Guild<\/a>! We had a program and two workshops: Colorwash Hunter Star and the Summer Salsa Lone Star. Thanks to the wonderful\u00a0organizers:\u00a0 Erica and Jeannie, Katie, Carolyn and Linda! Katie loaned me a winter coat, which allowed me to bring extra quilts!<\/p>\n<p>It was great to show the newest book \u2212\u00a0<em>Quick Diamond Quilts<\/em> \u2212 and quilts from all 5 books to the warm and friendly York quilters in Toronto. Even better? Watching the Olympics\u00a0in Canada as they cheered their athletes to victory! I admire the hard work &#8211; seven years of preparation &#8211; and think the Canadians are hosting a wonderful Olympic event.<\/p>\n<p>One evening I went with guild members to <em>Glow<\/em> Restaurant \u2212 which features a unique menu of local and healthy offerings.\u00a0<em>Glow<\/em> was located right near an ice carving display, and a small figure skating rink.\u00a0The ceiling\u00a0changed colors and the menu covers\u00a0had grasses imbedded in a thick plastic.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr><a href=\"http:\/\/smilebox.com\/play\/4d5455784e7a51314d54673d0d0a&amp;blogview=true&amp;campaign=blog_playback_link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smilebox.com\/snap\/4d5455784e7a51314d54673d0d0a.jpg\" alt=\"Click to play this Smilebox slideshow: \" width=\"420\" height=\"330\" \/>\u00a0 <\/a><\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smilebox.com\/?partner=google&amp;campaign=blog_snapshot\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just returned from Toronto! What a great bunch of quilters at the York Heritage Quilt Guild! We had a program and two workshops: Colorwash Hunter Star and the Summer Salsa Lone Star. Thanks to the wonderful\u00a0organizers:\u00a0 Erica and Jeannie, Katie, Carolyn and Linda! Katie loaned me a winter coat, which allowed me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jankrentz.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}