tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63982656446378172592024-02-19T09:01:25.529-05:00This Quilting MamaThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-61351251095090560162022-11-04T05:27:00.001-04:002022-11-04T05:27:24.664-04:00<p> <br />From my other blog:</p><p><br /></p><p>Check it out!!</p><p><a href="https://thislifereflectionsbylynn.blogspot.com/2022/11/quilts.html">QUILTS-- My Return to the Guild</a></p>ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-63631819178350261182022-11-01T05:37:00.006-04:002022-11-01T05:37:56.333-04:00Thankful, Grateful, Blessed!<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3GIO0mVWhYqPdSqgQ52I8WLAZpQx-U3iWz_pe_46cP2_DP1F9ld68Y0UeKr8an1fynAcFO7bpRu2xzqphzlKDwELxZaojEsKLzQacjtWeQDTDvLA_0fr4_6JSSDnhcSYpEVw-Bzt8Alq8L1iM-fP1IEhe_iie33kncprSUGR30MO-zOt1hHN1Nc0/s1196/Brown-Floral-Thankful-Grateful-Blessed.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="924" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3GIO0mVWhYqPdSqgQ52I8WLAZpQx-U3iWz_pe_46cP2_DP1F9ld68Y0UeKr8an1fynAcFO7bpRu2xzqphzlKDwELxZaojEsKLzQacjtWeQDTDvLA_0fr4_6JSSDnhcSYpEVw-Bzt8Alq8L1iM-fP1IEhe_iie33kncprSUGR30MO-zOt1hHN1Nc0/s320/Brown-Floral-Thankful-Grateful-Blessed.webp" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Dear This Quilting Mama Followers,<p></p><p>Please see my new blog post and Daily Reflections on being "Thankful, Grateful, and Blessed."</p><p>Check it out!</p><p><a href="https://thislifereflectionsbylynn.blogspot.com/2022/11/november-this-is-my-favorite-month-of.html">Thankful, Grateful, and Blessed Blog Post</a></p>ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-55281808766101182542022-10-08T17:26:00.004-04:002022-10-08T17:26:24.665-04:00Once upon a time............<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Hi Friends,</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"> Here is my new blog!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">All things reflected upon by me. Click on the link here:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://thislifereflectionsbylynn.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: black;">Once upon a time</span></a><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">ENJOY!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Thank you,</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">Lynn</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">P.S. Images below from first three blog posts. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="840" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivpQs03tn-1oUztId7_lHX7sRxz-x6ZMT9LbMzE9euyKO8n1RdSlw6AeDUHonf4mHDWsPUZJKaMcKHCWoQyASXbQy1evbkB2rANpROtC1pZyVjoxaAa3O9F4LmCfqEwidZjkedy2i70KJ6DGn9IxDz4hiSXXRldByTY_LlROSIe9Mpt_h-2iWZvQs/w200-h180/37-379006_facebook-thumb-opt-facebook-thumbs-down.png" width="200" /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA7gKtKw7XgrtzPZD2AqpTkUMWWmg4CKKaORcUPm7ahbThnX676QcpexUXJmGW3Ll8mXlnlr7cigt8Bf694uVFfXHgXhqhDVKYtOTC8D-FpDkksfh_IzAPLjhHLso6HvqXnVkk5I8N9DhNhcxQYfuPYpeNwTjHy6Oh2WAP7FO2_OTiRYpzKCNaX5I/s4032/IMG_3193.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA7gKtKw7XgrtzPZD2AqpTkUMWWmg4CKKaORcUPm7ahbThnX676QcpexUXJmGW3Ll8mXlnlr7cigt8Bf694uVFfXHgXhqhDVKYtOTC8D-FpDkksfh_IzAPLjhHLso6HvqXnVkk5I8N9DhNhcxQYfuPYpeNwTjHy6Oh2WAP7FO2_OTiRYpzKCNaX5I/w150-h200/IMG_3193.JPG" width="150" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfF0pgKWF4y-RzL0ySt9roxT0x_pHIiczWHr1dUpKeHB-xG0Wfh-EIwPJFy_DrGiuIxZomDB2_4mXZCoZUfnf0Z63ZBbKV4TpcGbh-zY9X8v8VEqSXr0HBSi5w8sgJnHAbDc09LW2BSreyOLy_vO8rg1RlONQwchhwbk40uQp5MdC4xDH05rh4GFE/s4032/Copy%20of%20IMG_3043.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfF0pgKWF4y-RzL0ySt9roxT0x_pHIiczWHr1dUpKeHB-xG0Wfh-EIwPJFy_DrGiuIxZomDB2_4mXZCoZUfnf0Z63ZBbKV4TpcGbh-zY9X8v8VEqSXr0HBSi5w8sgJnHAbDc09LW2BSreyOLy_vO8rg1RlONQwchhwbk40uQp5MdC4xDH05rh4GFE/s4032/Copy%20of%20IMG_3043.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfF0pgKWF4y-RzL0ySt9roxT0x_pHIiczWHr1dUpKeHB-xG0Wfh-EIwPJFy_DrGiuIxZomDB2_4mXZCoZUfnf0Z63ZBbKV4TpcGbh-zY9X8v8VEqSXr0HBSi5w8sgJnHAbDc09LW2BSreyOLy_vO8rg1RlONQwchhwbk40uQp5MdC4xDH05rh4GFE/w150-h200/Copy%20of%20IMG_3043.JPG" width="150" /></a></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><br />ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-22979867099208874052022-09-18T14:09:00.000-04:002022-09-18T14:09:28.018-04:00Lucille Makrin, Featured Quilter at the Bennington Quiltfest 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">"An eclectic collection of 48 quilts made by Lucille Makrin over a 30 year period. Lucille has loved fabrics since childhood and has dabbled in all aspects of quilting, fabric art, and mixed media. She has won dozens of ribbons for her traditional and art quilt. Many of her projects are fun and whimsical, incorporating embroidery, threadwork, and embellishing with beads, charms, stamps and unusual items." </span></b><i><b><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: large;">Congratulations, Mom Makrin!</span></b></i><div><br /></div><div><i><b>(Special thanks to Kristin Makrin for the photos as we were unable to physically attend the show.)</b></i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRpLn25HzQ3sAe3C0h1J1hRWjNG03mam5pJRyLt_Lu-gdax9TDDPmFYrJIm74edj2LYGF5DjnbHtCtRD10Qk9skrzwPGijhrI6gDoQGtO2CJ2yw9C-5-5WaR8F_cudg2OKpjZHTJycDyMKk9znuHbZVUwqWY_tmbzwIlTw-cDChuqOFE7bIsVIH4g/s640/IMG_8791.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRpLn25HzQ3sAe3C0h1J1hRWjNG03mam5pJRyLt_Lu-gdax9TDDPmFYrJIm74edj2LYGF5DjnbHtCtRD10Qk9skrzwPGijhrI6gDoQGtO2CJ2yw9C-5-5WaR8F_cudg2OKpjZHTJycDyMKk9znuHbZVUwqWY_tmbzwIlTw-cDChuqOFE7bIsVIH4g/w640-h480/IMG_8791.JPEG" width="640" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRobgFHbTqOCzC0Co9ukDMFqBU8tSa_MujlSVS8Nz5CJ2O6mi8-D8MiUT_toAj4mGOLI1F1ttKShClMfjrstRmdNIvBrST0KZfRdJgj_E-Hd6sT3Uxo9GoOOcso8Mn4JoThLtXRFpuA83A0qgj7Xsk9MXGtLFV7lVUWRP_RFelK-1D5k7LpV9R58s/s640/IMG_8780.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I had seen my students once. I had no sub plans available and even less prepared to be quarantined at home for a week. </p><p>Like most things, life takes over and it all works out. This week we have watched the international space station fly over the house, our son has learned how to cook for us, I have read books that I meant to finish this summer, found out fun new facts about one of our favorite shows, and my substitute was amazing and completed a bulletin board with my students to share how music makes them feel.</p><p> Life is good! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10teoc0_4iJIplbvMU8SzAQy593v5T5M_gGJhU8yx32OfFGlrDQklhT82rihsT22YjPIGtzIDbS5DJuTekOh-uaokaDNWJFUymEEQ3m8LFLeI1pWPalgGDmxUHQOSP_rQaiO5qIz7tCXgyAmfm1NUSy6VcyXNGjNcz7eznVHZlMRX69YoNvyuOxA/s4032/66F2F5DF-B222-414D-91E4-75E2683244D4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj10teoc0_4iJIplbvMU8SzAQy593v5T5M_gGJhU8yx32OfFGlrDQklhT82rihsT22YjPIGtzIDbS5DJuTekOh-uaokaDNWJFUymEEQ3m8LFLeI1pWPalgGDmxUHQOSP_rQaiO5qIz7tCXgyAmfm1NUSy6VcyXNGjNcz7eznVHZlMRX69YoNvyuOxA/s320/66F2F5DF-B222-414D-91E4-75E2683244D4.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF9frNARQAukTqjtw3jkX2CHAzuR1-buHBasVjcdN_-A-725qE7FMEFZlyuvTfCwcOcC9rMdsiO79LNclyrSbTJqjvoVB5aGokajhegg1DMnH0THxd5H8xqfxry8MrALrkPoZQCZhdtzwx07ugWUHN0X9_L6CxzqaGWghwAiIUtKHdV8ygn6ZZtx8/s800/E7BC6F6C-8181-4628-9CB8-DB63D29916AC.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF9frNARQAukTqjtw3jkX2CHAzuR1-buHBasVjcdN_-A-725qE7FMEFZlyuvTfCwcOcC9rMdsiO79LNclyrSbTJqjvoVB5aGokajhegg1DMnH0THxd5H8xqfxry8MrALrkPoZQCZhdtzwx07ugWUHN0X9_L6CxzqaGWghwAiIUtKHdV8ygn6ZZtx8/s320/E7BC6F6C-8181-4628-9CB8-DB63D29916AC.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> After 14 years of creative writing and sharing on Facebook, I am now blocked out to the extent that I do not even know why. I cannot get into my account enough to protest this action, nor can I see what the reason for it is. I am angry. I am sad. And most importantly, I am rethinking my entire internet presence. <div><br /></div><div>Stay tuned as I rekindle this my blog and my creative world here. Peace Faithful Followers, I’ll be back soon,<div>Lynn</div></div>ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-37964598082834186412021-10-23T17:59:00.004-04:002021-10-23T19:48:09.624-04:00Once upon a time..........<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZOLYZkKb95W-syw9c5RxZhYJRfUFLGfjM7-PyCIpp6EKNVGfUGW1YJ_4RtAePo-Pb0-FS_dIubjUTyU4cwsek8NC9svLJ9aWniCnDxGFO7gAwbghcTJnWhz_q3_vBlOYiaUSpIqP00s/s2048/10295998_10202974748982626_3762346406294460825_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1228" data-original-width="2048" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMZOLYZkKb95W-syw9c5RxZhYJRfUFLGfjM7-PyCIpp6EKNVGfUGW1YJ_4RtAePo-Pb0-FS_dIubjUTyU4cwsek8NC9svLJ9aWniCnDxGFO7gAwbghcTJnWhz_q3_vBlOYiaUSpIqP00s/s320/10295998_10202974748982626_3762346406294460825_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Once upon a time...........and now.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKFCUKBQk3jC-F6AO7TXqpE5L2_7LksrK1ARUp2E8S8wb3u-gVJ12TJ9sLa77x3yPehVF9GcRfy5DfmTFZFC_ivytnJD-HjWbTGlHxdA2N4YznDFas23LrihJyRsWCl-pETF17jpxRRg/s800/200946116_10223976807020951_2724180483924504716_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKFCUKBQk3jC-F6AO7TXqpE5L2_7LksrK1ARUp2E8S8wb3u-gVJ12TJ9sLa77x3yPehVF9GcRfy5DfmTFZFC_ivytnJD-HjWbTGlHxdA2N4YznDFas23LrihJyRsWCl-pETF17jpxRRg/s320/200946116_10223976807020951_2724180483924504716_n.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The passage of time is a funny thing. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">If we aren't careful, we blink and literal decades have flow by. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Then add a global pandemic in which time stopped, crept, and then attempted to resume its normal pace. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Only we became stuck within its time warp. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We learned or at least felt things we had never felt before. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We treasured and harbored that which traditionally would have been so very fleeting. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We came to be different people, different types of parents, different types of learners, different in too many ways to count.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Now, we struggle. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We struggle to regain our footing on changed and disappearing ground.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We look around and see all that was, is, and has potential to be again. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">We meet the future with new eyes, with new glasses, with a new heart.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How can we make it ALL better?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How can we bring the learning forward?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How can we treasure what has been as "change for the better"?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How can we share our new hearts?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">How can we greet our old friend time again and learn to walk hand-in-hand?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-83511771622623659772021-01-01T11:02:00.004-05:002021-01-01T11:06:38.085-05:00From the Archives: The best of This Quilting Mama<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.52); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">https://thisquiltingmama.blogspot</span><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.52); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.com/2021/01/from-archives-this-quilting-mama-scraps.html</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.52); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://thisquiltingmama.blogspot.com/2011/12/scraps-memories-inspiration.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration-line: none;">Scraps, Memories, Inspiration</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-492762473114503416" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;">This Christmas my quilting Mother-in-law gave me the book "Cut the Scraps!" by Joan Ford as well as other great quilting related toys. At the Empire Quilt Festival in October 2011, we heard Joan speak and show all the quilts she made from her scraps. The technique of the book begins with the task of cutting up your stash into the following size squares: 2 inches, 3 1/2 inches and 5 inches respectfully. It also involves throwing away smaller sized pieces.<br /><br /><b>This would be a challenge for me.</b><br /><br />Here is what my scraps looked like this morning.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7M7TC9NM1hfSg-8H4eY0xgFOU5JqUEMzVirwTPlfTsWXZf-PuvBeO0KbVhgi4cApuhgY9gN3p5xzxqX8_LsOywl-G_uahBQSvxxJBOlDqzSrgENcUHgW2Vx4yz93zfQuJ853W4IEaT34/s1600/PC291403.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: purple; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7M7TC9NM1hfSg-8H4eY0xgFOU5JqUEMzVirwTPlfTsWXZf-PuvBeO0KbVhgi4cApuhgY9gN3p5xzxqX8_LsOywl-G_uahBQSvxxJBOlDqzSrgENcUHgW2Vx4yz93zfQuJ853W4IEaT34/s320/PC291403.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a>What a mess! Unfortunately, I'd love to say that this was the <i><b>only</b></i> box of such scraps, but that would be a huge lie.<br /><br />So, I began and what a fascinating trip. As I ironed, cut and sorted the memories off all those quilted projects flew back into my head. I could see the baby's mother as she opened the baby quilt, share the excitement of the siblings with their new I-Spy quilt, enjoy my quilting student's first attempt at machine quilting, and best of all I could experience that same feeling I get when I give away a quilted project today. It was a lovely morning!<br /><br />Here is what I was able to cut up:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3M_bmicUSg92tx1fG6LU1_OU7RfkQsvjfJy2w1ksqFy1mCM4Ri66FzdJLItz8-wF5lGCeMfpj9MRLbqq7bNN66Socc3i4dr5IGzq-P2WbmW2dXugjuY4M7lwMOd3dnz3MI57Kbd1PDUE/s1600/PC291404.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="color: purple; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3M_bmicUSg92tx1fG6LU1_OU7RfkQsvjfJy2w1ksqFy1mCM4Ri66FzdJLItz8-wF5lGCeMfpj9MRLbqq7bNN66Socc3i4dr5IGzq-P2WbmW2dXugjuY4M7lwMOd3dnz3MI57Kbd1PDUE/s400/PC291404.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div>Did I get to the bottom of the bin? Not exactly, but I am well on my way.<br /><br />Adding the 2 inch squares to my previous attempt at organizing, I now have this collection organized by "Kids/ Novelty" and "Christmas" prints. What you don't see are all the other non-specific squares and a myriad of floral prints from my "Watercolor" quilting days.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-CTVOuvzlu8ehjlsgovbZj13yU1zo8hnkT_zmyepJ6mI7SPsQGJLleL7o8QQfywOwH_tEcT5ADhOpbH5y-FfaH79TRd9QbXz3bEg-1GE7cgyYm6O8EMITz3POpFnFcd1Nm8WNdXKDYyQ/s1600/PC291406.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="color: purple; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-CTVOuvzlu8ehjlsgovbZj13yU1zo8hnkT_zmyepJ6mI7SPsQGJLleL7o8QQfywOwH_tEcT5ADhOpbH5y-FfaH79TRd9QbXz3bEg-1GE7cgyYm6O8EMITz3POpFnFcd1Nm8WNdXKDYyQ/s400/PC291406.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><br />Finally, the big bin also produced some larger pieces and a few random blocks which I'm sure will become future wonders for the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (which has ended) or other projects.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Vx9Sb_R5CpTZLj_l8i26vmE_TVCV8YpYREgbaCo36Aq1u__VPBHjLfTrRy9XiRKVLVoi801iK7JXrj6NC2QNnWwvkxjrOeoozytyaqreCLXaTbU-u4_LKb4CuakfS8CsKHiOD3eVz5M/s1600/PC291408.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="color: purple; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Vx9Sb_R5CpTZLj_l8i26vmE_TVCV8YpYREgbaCo36Aq1u__VPBHjLfTrRy9XiRKVLVoi801iK7JXrj6NC2QNnWwvkxjrOeoozytyaqreCLXaTbU-u4_LKb4CuakfS8CsKHiOD3eVz5M/s640/PC291408.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br />Happy New Year and may you consider this wonderful little book as a resource in the name of that "get organized" new year's resolution which we all make...................and I might actually keep this coming year!!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.scrap-therapy.com/" style="color: purple;"><b style="color: black;">Link to Joan Ford's website: </b>Scrap Therapy</a></div></div>ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-51790994256813908392020-12-27T13:29:00.006-05:002020-12-27T13:44:24.450-05:002020 GIVE AWAY!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKbOiNhcy6Y9DCnM64RXs8DlrB1Faf7cvgnfMCYOpjmVYZbFQWJJ78gphTO5D8SQGBfEWCyh4fxwOwHQPqVZj7unRUUBvTWjjBzs5rs-e7YlpCkFQMnEUyaUnK-f82R5czzVkUgOjCFY4/s2048/TQM+Give+Away.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKbOiNhcy6Y9DCnM64RXs8DlrB1Faf7cvgnfMCYOpjmVYZbFQWJJ78gphTO5D8SQGBfEWCyh4fxwOwHQPqVZj7unRUUBvTWjjBzs5rs-e7YlpCkFQMnEUyaUnK-f82R5czzVkUgOjCFY4/w360-h480/TQM+Give+Away.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="dati1w0a f10w8fjw hv4rvrfc discj3wi" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 16px 16px 12px;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="a8nywdso j7796vcc rz4wbd8a l29c1vbm" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 14px 0px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: var(--primary-text); text-align: center;"><b style="color: var(--primary-text); font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interested in a FREE little quilt pattern?</span></b></div><div style="color: var(--primary-text); text-align: center;"><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: var(--primary-text); text-align: center;"><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here are the only requirements.........comment below which one you like the best by number, and then tell us what projects you are currently working on. 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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Happy New Year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My goals for myself have changed over the years when it comes to making and trying to keep New Year's Resolutions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Eat better! Exercise more! Save money! are constant "friends" (used lightly) who walk with me always, but now I'm more realistic about goals I can keep for more than 10 days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This year More Sailing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I obviously need summer, non-frozen water, and warmer than 35degrees outside to make that happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Use Less Plastic!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This one I've prepared most for and am super excited about. We now have nice lunch bags, metal straws, beeswax sandwich wraps, tupperwares for salads, real silverware already in said lunch bag, and lots of travel mugs ready to go. Oh! I also have already put the grocery shopping bags IN the car!!! HA!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lastly, More Quilting!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It's been awhile, so I decided to start where I always start and try again. Here is the scrap bin......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In December 2011 on this blog, I talked about this and started cutting up my stash. Inspired by Joan Ford's books, I'm ready again to scrap my way to beautiful new quilts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The idea is that if you cut your stash into 2", 3 1/2" and 5" squares, plus adding a focus fabric, you have endless possibilities for beautiful projects. My start of this is below......I'd love to show you how much progress I made on the bin, but I'm afraid it wouldn't translate in a photo. ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I also dug into the UFO bin..............WOW! and they are all blue!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My blue trees.............</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Oh! A new book all about blue and white quilts.........</span><br />
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I think I will be busy. Remembering that every morning has the power to be a new New Year's Day..... a poem from the public domain to inspire us all.<br />
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Only a night, and so much wrought!
The Old Year’s heart all weary grew,
But said: “The New Year rest has brought.”
The Old Year’s hopes its heart laid down,
As in a grave; but, trusting, said:
“The blossoms of the New Year’s crown
Bloom from the ashes of the dead.”
The Old Year’s heart was full of greed;
With selfishness it longed and ached,
And cried: “I have not half I need.
My thirst is bitter and unslaked.
But to the New Year’s generous hand
All gifts in plenty shall return;
True love it shall understand;
By all my failures it shall learn.
I have been reckless; it shall be
Quiet and calm and pure of life.
I was a slave; it shall go free,
And find sweet peace where I leave strife.”
Only a night from old to new!
Never a night such changes brought.
The Old Year had its work to do;
No New Year miracles are wrought.
Always a night from old to new!
Night and the healing balm of sleep!
Each morn is New Year’s morn come true,
Morn of a festival to keep.
All nights are sacred nights to make
Confession and resolve and prayer;
All days are sacred days to wake
New gladness in the sunny air.
Only a night from old to new;
Only a sleep from night to morn.
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I woke up today with all my usual good intentions and the thought of what 2019 might hold on my mind. What New Year's Resolutions should I actively pursue? </div>
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Wow! It's been three years since I've actively been blogging. That seems impossible. Time does certainly fly right by when you are having fun. </div>
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In the Fall of 2016, I accepted a teaching position in a small city surrounded by the most beautiful country upstate New York has to offer. The experience has truly changed my life and our family's........ well, everything. Now I am........</div>
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Elementary Music Educator in three buildings, with three choruses, and on an incredible team with 5 other fabulous musician/ teachers. I've traded my Mama homewear for these and an awesome uniform of black plants and whatever is handy for a nice top. </div>
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On Friday's we dress down and this particular Friday was Field Day! I was a crossing guard for the event....(as no one wants to see me run, HA!) Here I am leading the whole school and about 300 parents in our version of the YMCA! We do have fun at my new job!<br />
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As for the family, well these children keep growing.........They are 12 and 8 and very active with music, Cub Scouting, and here our trip to Rose Island off the coast of Rhode Island. We spent three days camping in a Colonial barracks and living without electricity. It was quite an adventure. We also did some hiking and ocean kayaking around the island. Check it out........https://www.roseisland.org/<br />
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Otherwise, we sail our small boats, are busy with church activities, playing our instruments, doing complicated math homework, or otherwise running around with our activities.<br />
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Finally the union of my work and home life comes on Saturdays. For the past 12 years, I have been teaching with the Capital District Youth Chorale. Here is a photo of us at the Palace Theatre in Albany for the Magic of Christmas. Our daughter now sings with the Chorale and is in the photo below (as am I). What an amazing parenting moment!</div>
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Therefore Friends, I can't promise lots of Quilting will happen here, but the goal for 2019 is to try to get back to it. Until then.........enjoy the photos, the stories, and keep doing whatever you love. </div>
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<b><i>Glad to be back and Happy New Year, </i></b></div>
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<br />ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-53470788034488262092015-09-30T05:12:00.000-04:002015-09-30T05:12:03.046-04:00Along the Spice Route<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along
the Spice Route</span></strong></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along
the Spice Route is an exhibit of 41 wall quilts interpreting a spice
used in cooking today and its country of origin. In addition to the
artistic interpretation of a spice, the goal of the exhibit is to
provide a learning opportunity to the origins of spices, learn the
importance of early trade routes and the connection between
countries. Curated by Ann Reardon and Paula Golden.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XXII</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Color of Enlightenment-Saffron
by Ricki Smith Selva</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Saffron can be used as a dye as
well as a spice. This quilt depicts the saffron robes of a Theravada
Buddhist monk in Southeast Asia. The golden-orange color, which
represents wisdom, strength and dignity, traditionally came from
using saffron as a dye. A captivating photo taken by Katine Rogers in
2011 was the inspiration."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Road to Mathura- Ginger from India
by Carole A. Nicholas</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Ginger was first grown in
southern China. It was soon to be distributed through global trade
networks along the spice route to India. It can be used fresh or as a
ground powder. Ginger has a fiery taste with a hint of citrus. Here,
three women take their head loads of pungent, peppery ginger root to
market in Mathura. The ginger plant depicted in the filigree stone
screen ("jaali")."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Saffron is the world's most
expensive spice. In Afghanistan saffron cultivation may offer a
legitimate alternative to opium production for some farmers. The
handwork is lovingly offered as homage to the painstaking work that
yields this gorgeous spice, and especially to the farmers of Kandahar
Province who are risking their livelihood to become part of saffron's
enduring story."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hildegard's Herbal- Asafoetida by
Patricia Powers</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Asafoetida" is a spice from
northern India. It has a bitter taste that is softened by cooking it
in hot oil or butter. In this quilt Hildegard von Bingen, a nun
renown as a great healer. Hildegard was born in 1098. Her words on
Asafoetida in her manuscript "Physica" are shown here. Her
theories and those of oriental medicine have great similarities."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Banda Niera-Nutmeg by Karen Starnes</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Nutmeg was highly sought after
spice due to its medicinal properties, as well as hallucinogenic
effects when consumed in large quantities. "Banda Niera"
depicts mid 1500's Dutch traders negotiating a nutmeg purchase on the
shores of Banda Island. Their ship awaits in the bay between the
settlement of Banda Niera and the volcano named Fire Mountain."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Spice Bazaar- Cumin by Karin
Tauber</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Cumin seeds come from a plant
with lacy white/pink flowers, a member of the parsley family. Its
flavor is pungent, earthy with a sweet after taste. A spice bazaar is
depicted where cumin is found in many forms. There are dried bundles
on shelves, dried seeds in sacks, ground cumin in clay pots and a
bowl of black cumin in a corner. Inspired by a Silvia Hanna Dahdal
oil painting."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mustard Seed- Western Asia by Susan
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Mustard seeds come in three
varieties: black mustard, brown mustard, and white mustard. In the
time of the ancient Spice Route it was popular in China, India, and
the Middle East (Western Asia). This quilt focuses on the Middle East
where black mustard grows. We look from inside a stone house over an
ancient village with fields of mustard in the distance."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Turmeric by Alicia Cox MacWright</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Turmeric grows wild in the
forests of southern Asia. It has been used in southern India for
thousands of years as a dye, a medicine and a culinary spice. It was
used to dye the clothes of temple dancers known as "devadasis".
My quilt show these dancers performing the Bharata Natyam, a
classical Indian dance that originated in the temples of Tamil Nadu."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tanzanian Cardamom by Peg Green</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Cardamom appears to have
originated in the Kerala hills of southern India. Cardamom trade came
overland into Asia Minor and by sea to the Arabian Peninsula and East
Africa. It is used in many spice mixtures and to flavor coffee in
some parts of the world. Here Cardamom flowers in stages from buds
through blooms and seedpods drift down across the surface of the
scene."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Cinnamon comes from Sri Lanka,
this type is what is known as "true" cinnamon. Its flavor
is sweet with a woody aftertaste. It is used in many dishes world
wide. I was drawn to cinnamon not by the flavor or scent but its rich
reddish-brown color. I have used block printing and fabrics that I
have discharged. The designs are reminiscent of Sri Lanka and the
leaves of the cinnamon tree."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Saffron is carefully harvested
from the flower of the Crocus sativus, commonly known as the saffron
crocus. Saffron is the dried vivid crimson stigmas of the blossom.
Hundreds of flowers must be harvested to produce a commercially
useful amount; because of this it as remained "the gold" of
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Madagascar by Beth Wiesner</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Vanilla comes from Madagascar and
neighboring islands in the Southwestern Indian Ocean. It is derived
from orchids and is the second most expensive spice. Thanks to Edmond
Albious for discovering a hand pollinating method that saved the
vanilla orchid. A window, based on an historic arch in Ambohimanga,
Madagascar, frames the view of the vanilla crop."</span></div>
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This post is dedicated to my fellow blogger Tasha at <a href="http://purplecook.blogspot.com/">The Purple Cook</a> and to my other girlfriends, Barbara, Heather, Cindy and Greta, who have the gift of knowing how to use spices in their cooking.<br />
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<b>“In Anticipation” by Lucille Makrin of Cambridge, NY</b></div>
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Lucille writes, “This piece began as an ARTAA theme “Flight.” A photo captured by my son at the Adirondack Balloon Festival, September 2009, was the impetus. They were blowing up “Where's Wally” and my 3 year old granddaughter was waiting to see “Nemo” inflated. The shadow of the observers is on the back side of the balloon as seen throught the inslide of the balloon. How cool is that?”</div>
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<b>“Life II: I have a Teenager” by Lisa B. Filion of Queensbury, NY</b></div>
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Lisa writes, “Living with a willful adolescent gives me plenty of material to use in my art in this second piece of a series about my life. Brightly painted and snow dyed fabrics reflect the colorful world I inhabit these days.”</div>
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<b>“The Devil Made Me Do It” by Nancy DiDonato, Diamond Point, NY</b></div>
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Nancy writes, “Inspired by a church's stained glass window, this machine appliqued piece was created using batik fabrics for the “glass” and multiple layers of grey satin stitch to replicate the leading.”</div>
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<b>“For Sale” by Eileen Donovan of Queensbury, NY</b></div>
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Eileen writes, “This piece was created with transparent paints and resists. When completed, it makde me think of family farms that have been lost with the advance of highways and development.”</div>
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<b>“Dunes” by Joanna Monroe of Hudson Falls, NY</b></div>
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Joanna writes, “I spent many hours hiding in the dunes when I was a child. The sunny ski and blue water horizon altered when I changed position. Terns defended their nests in the fluttering forest of green and brown beach grass by dive blombing intruders. Sand stuck to everything. It was good.”</div>
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<b>“Torn Apart and Going In Circles” by Karen Sturtevant of Clifton Park, NY</b></div>
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Karen writes, “I have a fondness for circles and they appear frequently in my art work. The title “Torn Apart and Going In Circles” says it all about this piece. A whirl win of circles flying freely about, changing direction many times as I adjusted my course and vision to keep up with them.”</div>
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<b>“Dreaming” by Kris Gregson Moss of Queensbury, NY</b></div>
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Kris writes, “Dreaming refers to my wish to visit Russia. This quilt was created to travel to St. Petersburg with the ar tquilt group, Fiber Revolution in 2010. It is based on a well known cathedral in that city.”</div>
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<b>“Contemplation” by Sherrie L. Turkheimer of Saratoga Springs, NY</b></div>
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Sherrie writes, “Contemplation” is about design and composition. Vibrant colors, subtle values, interesting textures, meaningful lines and shapes. I like experimentation and pushing the boundaries. I love line drawyings and the subtleties of positive and negative spaves. Always evolving to another level of ability and artistic growth is important to me.”</div>
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<b>“Feathered Tulip” by Gail B. Frenz of Brant Lake, NY</b><br />
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Gail writes, “As a traditional quilter, I challenged myself to create an original art quilt. With careful planning, the curved piecing proved to be easier than I expected. I feel a great sense of accomplishment as I view my feathered tulip, which is guaranteed not to wilt.”</div>
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<b>“Stop and Smell the Roses” by Patricia Spillane of East Greenbush, NY</b><br />
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Patricia writes, “My original rose photograph has inspired many projects, but my favorite thus far has to be the thread painting of this work. Ghostly, imaginary images slipping out into the border satisfied my desire to combine photography, drawing, and fiber in the single piece of art.”</div>
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Thousands of miles away and living a life of privilege and peace, I saw that original National Geographic cover and remember being consumed with The Afghan Girl. My inner dialogue was full of preteen questions (for I was 12 at the time). "Did she have parents? Sibings? What does it mean to be in a refugee camp? Where is Pakistan? Wow, she is my age, I wonder if she has any friends there." My thoughts about her and her life came and went for many years ahead as we learned of the struggles in the Middle East.</div>
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Finally, in April of 2002, the Afghan Girl was found. 17 years later, she still lived in the war-torn countryside of Afghanistan with her husband and three daughters. She spoke little, but said much in the interview. Below is the full text from Steve McCurry's piece about his search for her.<br />
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I remember as a newlywed in 2002 and 29 years old, that I dreamed of having my own children, but couldn't ever imagine having three! Her oldest was 13 already! Then I was stopped and saddened by the idea that Sharbat Gula herself cannot read and that all she wants is education for her daughters. Some harsh realities of life come in waves. The idea of children NOT being educated at least to the level of basic literacy was new to me...or at least it truly sunk in with this moment, just as the idea of children living in a war zone was a revelation to me back in 1985 when I saw Sharbat for the first time. I felt deeply for this woman I did not know.<br />
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Finally in the Spring of 2015 at a the Northern Star Quilters' Guild Show in Somers, New York, Sharbat Gula returned and completely stunned me. I hadn't thought about her and her life in years, but here she was. All the feelings of connection and "relationship" (if you will) came flooding back. Quilt artist Marla Silbernagel of Warwick, NY created this piece during a workshop with Leni Weiner. The goal being to study color relationships as she recreated the original photograph.</div>
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I still don't really know what all this means, but I can say that Sharbat Gula's images from 1985, 2002 and 2015 have made me revisit many questions I still carry about the nature of war, the effects of war on the lives of children in war zones and beyond, our response to others even those who live on the other side of the planet, and how we can live daily keeping all of this in mind. </div>
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A Life Revealed</h2>
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Her eyes have captivated the world since she
appeared on our cover in 1985. Now we can tell her story.</h3>
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By Cathy Newman</div>
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Photograph by Steve McCurry</div>
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She remembers
the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her
anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed
before. Until they met again 17 years later, she had not been
photographed since.</div>
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The photographer
remembers the moment too. The light was soft. The refugee camp in
Pakistan was a sea of tents. Inside the school tent he noticed her
first. Sensing her shyness, he approached her last. She told him he
could take her picture. “I didn’t think the photograph of the
girl would be different from anything else I shot that day,” he
recalls of that morning in 1984 spent documenting the ordeal of
Afghanistan’s refugees.</div>
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The portrait by
Steve McCurry turned out to be one of those images that sears the
heart, and in June 1985 it ran on the cover of this magazine. Her
eyes are sea green. They are haunted and haunting, and in them you
can read the tragedy of a land drained by war. She became known
around National Geographic as the “Afghan girl,” and for 17 years
no one knew her name.</div>
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In January a
team from National Geographic Television & Film’s EXPLORER
brought McCurry to Pakistan to search for the girl with green eyes.
They showed her picture around Nasir Bagh, the still standing refugee
camp near Peshawar where the photograph had been made. A teacher from
the school claimed to know her name. A young woman named Alam Bibi
was located in a village nearby, but McCurry decided it wasn’t her.</div>
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No, said a man
who got wind of the search. <i>He</i> knew the girl in the picture.
They had lived at the camp together as children. She had returned to
Afghanistan years ago, he said, and now lived in the mountains near
Tora Bora. He would go get her.</div>
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It took three
days for her to arrive. Her village is a six-hour drive and
three-hour hike across a border that swallows lives. When McCurry saw
her walk into the room, he thought to himself: This is her.</div>
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Names have
power, so let us speak of hers. Her name is Sharbat Gula, and she is
Pashtun, that most warlike of Afghan tribes. It is said of the
Pashtun that they are only at peace when they are at war, and her
eyes—then and now—burn with ferocity. She is 28, perhaps 29, or
even 30. No one, not even she, knows for sure. Stories shift like
sand in a place where no records exist.</div>
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Time and
hardship have erased her youth. Her skin looks like leather. The
geometry of her jaw has softened. The eyes still glare; that has not
softened. “She’s had a hard life,” said McCurry. “So many
here share her story.” Consider the numbers. Twenty-three years of
war, 1.5 million killed, 3.5 million refugees: This is the story of
Afghanistan in the past quarter century.</div>
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Now, consider
this photograph of a young girl with sea green eyes. Her eyes
challenge ours. Most of all, they disturb. We cannot turn away.</div>
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“There is not
one family that has not eaten the bitterness of war,” a young
Afghan merchant said in the 1985 <i>National Geographic</i> story
that appeared with Sharbat’s photograph on the cover. She was a
child when her country was caught in the jaws of the Soviet invasion.
A carpet of destruction smothered countless villages like hers. She
was perhaps six when Soviet bombing killed her parents. By day the
sky bled terror. At night the dead were buried. And always, the sound
of planes, stabbing her with dread.</div>
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“We left
Afghanistan because of the fighting,” said her brother, Kashar
Khan, filling in the narrative of her life. He is a straight line of
a man with a raptor face and piercing eyes. “The Russians were
everywhere. They were killing people. We had no choice.”</div>
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Shepherded by
their grandmother, he and his four sisters walked to Pakistan. For a
week they moved through mountains covered in snow, begging for
blankets to keep warm.</div>
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“You never
knew when the planes would come,” he recalled. “We hid in caves.”</div>
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The journey that
began with the loss of their parents and a trek across mountains by
foot ended in a refugee camp tent living with strangers.</div>
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“Rural people
like Sharbat find it difficult to live in the cramped surroundings of
a refugee camp,” explained Rahimullah Yusufzai, a respected
Pakistani journalist who acted as interpreter for McCurry and the
television crew. “There is no privacy. You live at the mercy of
other people.” More than that, you live at the mercy of the
politics of other countries. “The Russian invasion destroyed our
lives,” her brother said.</div>
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It is the
ongoing tragedy of Afghanistan. Invasion. Resistance. Invasion. Will
it ever end? “Each change of government brings hope,” said
Yusufzai. “Each time, the Afghan people have found themselves
betrayed by their leaders and by outsiders professing to be their
friends and saviors.”</div>
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In the
mid-1990s, during a lull in the fighting, Sharbat Gula went home to
her village in the foothills of mountains veiled by snow. To live in
this earthen-colored village at the end of a thread of path means to
scratch out an existence, nothing more. There are terraces planted
with corn, wheat, and rice, some walnut trees, a stream that spills
down the mountain (except in times of drought), but no school,
clinic, roads, or running water.</div>
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Here is the bare
outline of her day. She rises before sunrise and prays. She fetches
water from the stream. She cooks, cleans, does laundry. She cares for
her children; they are the center of her life. Robina is 13. Zahida
is three. Alia, the baby, is one. A fourth daughter died in infancy.
Sharbat has never known a happy day, her brother says, except perhaps
the day of her marriage.</div>
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Her husband,
Rahmat Gul, is slight in build, with a smile like the gleam of a
lantern at dusk. She remembers being married at 13. No, he says, she
was 16. The match was arranged.</div>
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He lives in
Peshawar (there are few jobs in Afghanistan) and works in a bakery.
He bears the burden of medical bills; the dollar a day he earns
vanishes like smoke. Her asthma, which cannot tolerate the heat and
pollution of Peshawar in summer, limits her time in the city and with
her husband to the winter. The rest of the year she lives in the
mountains.</div>
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At the age of
13, Yusufzai, the journalist, explained, she would have gone into
purdah, the secluded existence followed by many Islamic women once
they reach puberty.</div>
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“Women vanish
from the public eye,” he said. In the street she wears a
plum-colored burka, which walls her off from the world and from the
eyes of any man other than her husband. “It is a beautiful thing to
wear, not a curse,” she says.</div>
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Faced by
questions, she retreats into the black shawl wrapped around her face,
as if by doing so she might will herself to evaporate. The eyes flash
anger. It is not her custom to subject herself to the questions of
strangers.</div>
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Had she ever
felt safe?</div>
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”No. But life
under the Taliban was better. At least there was peace and order.”</div>
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Had she ever
seen the photograph of herself as a girl?</div>
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“No.”</div>
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She can write
her name, but cannot read. She harbors the hope of education for her
children. “I want my daughters to have skills,” she said. “I
wanted to finish school but could not. I was sorry when I had to
leave.”</div>
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Education, it is
said, is the light in the eye. There is no such light for her. It is
possibly too late for her 13-year-old daughter as well, Sharbat Gula
said. The two younger daughters still have a chance.</div>
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The reunion
between the woman with green eyes and the photographer was quiet. On
the subject of married women, cultural tradition is strict. She must
not look—and certainly must not smile—at a man who is not her
husband. She did not smile at McCurry. Her expression, he said, was
flat. She cannot understand how her picture has touched so many. She
does not know the power of those eyes.</div>
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Such knife-thin
odds. That she would be alive. That she could be found. That she
could endure such loss. Surely, in the face of such bitterness the
spirit could atrophy. How, she was asked, had she survived?</div>
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wrapped in unshakable certitude.</div>
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"Circle of Life" earned Lisa McCarthy of East Kingston, NH an Exceptional Merit Purple Ribbon (that means the quilt earned 98, 99 or 100 points on the scale of 1 to 100). Lisa writes in her description, "I love the use of bright bold colors. When I saw this pattern by Jacqueline de Jonge, I added it to my 'must-do' list. I had fun playing with the color layout and it went together like a dream. Many thanks to long-arm maching quilter Carrie Zizza, whose vision and artistic flare are amazing."</div>
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On the right is "Prism" by Linda Pearl of Nashua, NH. (I'm sorry that I did not get a better photo.) Here is Linda's description, "It is an interpretation of Flying Geese, with a modern layout and quilting scheme. This came from my desire to play with a bright palette. It is the second in a series I am currently working on. Quilted on a home machine."<br />
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Karen Viega's "Really? What was I thinking?" earned her a First Place Blue Ribbon.<br />
From East Bridgewater, MA, Karen writes, "My quilt guild challenge for spring was Fall in Love with Color. We each chose a photo whose colors we wanted to work with, and then interpreted those colors into the design. I came up with this foundation pieced rainbow log cabin variation. 3700 pieced later, I thought to myself, "Really? What was I thinking?" Quilted on a home machine.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">"Whoosh!" Deborah Rouse's Third Place Ribbon winning quilt caught my eye for not only the bargello factor, but also for the awesome antique buttons. She writes, "A fun bargello quilt using my stash of fabrics and new and vintage buttons! Inspired by a quilt designed by Nancy Altsman of Black Cat Creations. A class by Karen Dever at the Village Quilter in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. Quilted on a home machine."</span></div>
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Below is Margot Cohen of Cedarhurst, NY's "Field of Flowers." This Third Place Yellow Ribbon quilt is described by the maker in this way, "I fell in love with hexagons thirty years ago when I took my first quilting class. Since then I have made many hex quilts. My late husband told me I could have any quilt I wanted as long as "I made it." I saw a picture of this quilt and just had to have it, so I made it. It is hand quilted."<br />
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Below from the Instructor's Showcase comes Karen Eckmeier's "Random Rose Garden." She describes it like this, "Based on the words "finding center"-- this quilt was inspired by a hand drumming workshop. Each block was supposed to be an individual drum beat, but it turned into a garden instead!"<br />
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Instructor Kimberly Einmo's "Fire and Ice." She writes, "Fire and Ice is a variation of my original design called Lone Starburst. I wanted to create a vibrant, modern interpretation of the more traditional Lone Starburst pattern; giving it a fresh update with streamlined, simple techniques. There are no set-in seams used in the construction of this quilt! This quilt has won several national awards including Best Modern Quilt at AQS Quilt Week 2014 in Chattanooga, TN. Judi Madsen of Green Fairy Quilts did the exquisite machine quilting."<br />
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Finally, contestant Lee Sproull of Leeds, MA entered this "Cubic Kaleidoscope" and earned a Third Place Yellow Ribbon. Lee writes, "Bright colors swirl around lively red centers. Quilted on a home machine."</div>
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<b><i><u>Dedication:</u> </i></b><b><i>In the middle of this year's Vermont Quilt Festival, as I was trying hard to absorb all the colors, all the people, all the techniques and all the gorgeous art in this amazing show, I learned that my sister and her girlfriend of many years will be married next June. I was then overwhelmed with joy to know that they too will have all the love, security, and legal benefits which come with marriage. Therefore, I dedicate this post to my sister Liz and to Jeanne in the name of LOVE, of support, and of all that is truly rainbow bright and beautiful! </i></b><br />
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In its 39th year, the Vermont Quilt Festival is New England's largest and oldest annual quilt event.</div>
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Here are the Best Of Show quilts from this year's VQF experience.</div>
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Hexagon Quilt "La Passion" by Grit Kovacs from Ebstorf, Germany won Best of Show from Outside the USA and also Best Piecing. Grit writes, "My hexagon quilt is an original design, sewn by hand, and took two and one half years to complete. The inspiration developed on a holiday in France. I used 7,240 pieced. Long-arm quilted by Birgit Schuller."</div>
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Best in Show and the Governor's Award for Best Vermont Quilt comes "Celestial Sedona" by Norma Ippolito of Chester, VT. Norma writes, "This quilt features a variety of construction techniques. Building from the center out, it became a three- year journey resulting in the most challenging quilt I have made, and also the most rewarding. Pattern Sedona Star by Sarah Vedeler Designs. Quilted on a home sewing machine."</div>
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Sharing blue ribbon winner Micheline Caron's "Sous Une Bonne Etoile" because it is the same quilt design as the Best of Show above. From Canada, Micheline also quitled this beauty on her home sewing machine.</div>
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Heidi Merrill's "Curves Bliss" earned Best Long-Arm Machine Quilting. Heidi is local to us here in upstate NY. From Clifton Park, she writes, "I made my own design and used EQ to design my own pattern. I used Suzanne McNeil's 10 Minute Block method, but modified it by cutting out the backing to reduce bulk. I used alternating chain blocks to create the overall design."<br />
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The Best Miniature goes to "6522", George Siciliano's masterpiece. He writes, "This quilt has 6522 pieces of dupioni silk....It's not fused, embroidered or painted. Just good old fashioned piecing. Quilted on a home sewing machine." George and his wife Ginny are master quilters and teachers and live in Lebanon, PA.<br />
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"Creme Caramel" by Joanne Mac Nevin of Pembroke, MA earned the Best Machine Quilting Award on a Home Machine. She writes, "My sweet tooth is very pronounced and, from the beginning, this quilt has evoked visions of caramel, vanilla ice cream, custard, marshmallow fluff, butterscotch, whipped cream and a little mocha. Yum! The pattern is White Chocolate by McCall's Quilting and the border is Ice Blueberries by Pat Delaney."</div>
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Finally, "October" by Susie Wimer of Ranson, WV earned a blue ribbon and the Founder's Award for this show. She writes, "I love leaves and cannot resist picking them up in the fall. I used real, actual sized leaves for the pattern. My then six-year old grandson then helped gather them, learning the trees as we went. By the time I finished he was fourteen years old. Hand quilted."<br />
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<i>These are the Best Of Show which I was able to capture quickly on my camera and remember to share with you. I was also a participant and vendor this time around. My apologies if your quilt is missing. Please feel free to comment below and share a photo or to do the same at This Quilting Mama on Facebook. Thank you and stay tuned for more quilts from the Vermont Quilt Festival 2015 over the next few weeks.</i></div>
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<i>Peace and Happy VQF inspired quilting ahead,</i></div>
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Months of preparing those homemade gifts........with last stitches placed at the very last minute.</div>
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<br />ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-3171320315609114332014-10-14T11:59:00.001-04:002014-10-14T11:59:55.810-04:00Halloween Special: Paul and Pauline's Guest BathroomPauline and Paul live in the heart of the Catskill Mountains in upstate, New York.<br />
This is their beautiful home. I've asked them to help me share the art of their guest bathroom with you in a special guest-artist post. This piece was created during a Halloween party last year.<br />
Finally, here it is.........sorry it took so long, Pauline. But you know how it is with kids! ;-)<br />
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Welcome to our home. It was built in 1936 by a Norwegian fisherman and the house has many features that are clearly inspired by boats. Not the least of which being the perilously narrow and steep staircase to the basement, more like the ladder to the ships hold than a proper set of stairs that will have toddlers and moms carrying laundry traipsing up and down continually.<br />
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We are especially proud of the guest half bath. I have always felt that color belongs on the walls, and loved those houses in the magazines and on the historic house tours that have rich and varied colors on the walls throughout. But my husband is less adventurous (in this area of life). So we’ve compromised. We agreed to muted shades in the main rooms: living room, kitchen, halls, bedrooms; and that I could do what I want with color in the bathrooms. I figure you spend so little time in the bathroom, even if you hate it, it doesn’t impact your life too badly. And if you enjoy color? Given what you do in the bath, you are entitled to a little inspiration, joy, and color for the few moments each day that you spend there, brushing your teeth, shaving, wiping the toddler’s bum…<br />
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Back before we were married, when this guy was a high roller and I thought this was how all girls were treated by their beaus, we used to go to fancy restaurants for dinner. Now that we’re married and have two kids, I realize that what was really happening is what they call “courting.” In one of these restaurants the bathrooms were wall papered with wine labels. We thought that was very cool and started saving the labels from every bottle of wine we drank in a black plastic cigar sized box. I was just learning about wine and, you will remember, my then boyfriend was still trying to impress me. So the labels added up pretty quickly, and were all kinds of wines from bourdeaux to burgundy; viognier to vermentino; reislings, cabernets, pinot noirs, chardonnays, montalcino, montepulciano, Mondavi, Opus One. We saved enough labels to paper all four walls, and Paul threw himself into the project whole-heartedly one week while I was in the City at work. He meticulously decoupaged the labels to the wall in a patchwork and over-layered manner, pleasing to the eye with a few SENA medallions covering the blank spots. But he decided, wisely I think, that once the door wall was covered, it was plenty! Don’t over-do it. Now it’s a surprise! You enter the small yellow bathroom with carrot colored trim and when you turn around to close the door, voila! Wine labels! Fabulous!<br />
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The stained glass four-seasons of the sun was given to us by Paul’s mother when she moved from Boston and divested of many of her beautiful pieces of arts and furniture. We were the lucky inheritors of many of these pieces. This particular stained glass is vibrantly colored and epitomizes her exuberant primitive love of the full rainbow spectrum of color. I love it because it catches the evening sun and throws bright colors on the walls while blocking the view into the bathroom from the grilling area outside!<br />
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There is a tiny detailed drawing of a ship on the wall opposite the vibrant glass covered window. There are tiny details of funny birds and unreal creatures on this vessel in full sail. To fully appreciate it, take the Chinese magnifying glass down and get a better look!<br />
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But, yes, the piece de resistance is the mirror, framed in a bouquet of vinyl records. Paul bought this as a Christmas gift for himself since there is a long tradition in this house of buying gifts for oneself. We came from very different traditions around Christmas and are, even after 20 years, still assimilating our different attitudes about it! He found it in an artisanal shop in Woodstock; one of a kind. It was really a no-brainer. He had to have it. It featured in one of his music videos (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvSN8RQ3JEQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvSN8RQ3JEQ</a>) If you are as devoted a fan of classic rock and roll and all its early influences, then you will understand the meaning of vinyl and why this was meant to be.<br />
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Thanks for your interest in our things! We used to spend weekends making our house just-so – before the kids. I love the energy and constant chaos in our house now, but I am saving all my house-beautiful ideas from when the kids are a little more grown up and the chaos settles down a bit.<br />
Cheers!<br />
-Pauline<br />
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On a trip to a quilt show, I had the privilege of spending some time at this Amish Market in Flemington, New Jersey. At breakfast the second day (Yes, I had to go there twice as it was that wonderful!), I asked my server if it would be acceptable to photograph the market if I avoided taking pictures of the people. She said YES! This is the photo journey of my time.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some of my favorite Amish Proverbs from the book "<span class="a-size-large" id="productTitle" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3 !important; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Amish Values for Your Family: What We Can Learn from the Simple Life" </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">by</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 19px;"><a class="a-link-normal contributorNameID" data-asin="B002A4Z51S" href="http://www.amazon.com/Suzanne-Woods-Fisher/e/B002A4Z51S/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;">Suzanne Woods Fisher</a> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The kind of ancestors you have is not as important as the ones your children have.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The best things in life are not things.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A family that works together, grows together.</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts.</span></li>
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Here is the website if you want to plan your trip to this wonderful place: <a href="http://www.dutchfarmersmarket.com/">http://www.dutchfarmersmarket.com/</a>ThisQuiltingMamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09625916104085673454noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6398265644637817259.post-71502305042627109652014-09-18T01:00:00.000-04:002014-09-18T05:18:06.871-04:0019th Century Quilts at the Edward Thorp Gallery, New York City in June of 2014<br />
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"Clam Shell Quilt"</div>
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"Gather Up the Fragments Scriptures Pieced Quilt"</div>
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"Amish Four Patch Bars Pieced Crib Quilt"</div>
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Amish of Lancaster County, PA</div>
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c. 1920s</div>
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"Blazing Stars, Flying Geese, and Log Cabin Pieced Quilt"</div>
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Collected in California</div>
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c. 1940s</div>
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cotton</div>
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"Five Color Bars Quilt"</div>
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Amish of Lancaster County, PA</div>
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c. 1930s-1940s</div>
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wool and cotton crepe</div>
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"Log Cabin Quilt with Windmill Pineapple Pattern Variation"</div>
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American</div>
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c. Fourth quarter of 19th Century</div>
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wool</div>
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"X or Chevron Bars Pieced Quilt"</div>
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Amish or Mennonite of Lancaster County, PA</div>
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c.1880s</div>
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wool</div>
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"Diamond in the Square Pieced Quilt"</div>
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Amish of Lancaster County, PA</div>
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c. 1930s-1940s</div>
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"Carpenter's Wheel or Broken Star Pieced Quilt"</div>
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possibly from South Carolina</div>
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c. 1830s-1840s</div>
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cotton and chintz</div>
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"Compass Star or Compass Rose Pieced Quilt"</div>
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Amish or Mennonite of Lancaster County, PA</div>
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c. 1880s</div>
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<b>Edward Thorp Gallery's </b>(http://edwardthorpgallery.com/)<b> </b>primary focus is to promote the work of emerging and established contemporary artists. It is also known for its diverse program within<br />
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Edward Thorp Gallery has also promoted the careers of numerous artists of the twentieth century. Among those are: John Altoon, Christopher Brown, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Deborah Butterfield, Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Eugene Leroy, Ken Kiff, Konrad Klapheck, Henri Michaux, Beatriz Milhazes, Elie Nadelman, and Richard Phillips.<br />
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This past weekend, I took myself on a self-proclaimed and self-directed "This Quilting Mama" tour of New York City and New Jersey. My first three stops were in Manhattan.<br />
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The City Quilter, a Manhattan based fabric store, in partnership with American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine created a national contest to celebrate and honor the Centennial of Grand Central Station. Four fabrics were created "incorporating the distinctive colors and iconography of this beloved building." This final exhibit at the New York Transit Museum includes 30 finalists from the over 80 entries. It will be on display until July 6th, 2014.<br />
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Honorable Mention: "Mercury's Concourse" by Fran VanEron of Fort Collins, Colorado.<br />
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Grand Prize: "Time Flies But We Take the Train" by Amy Krasnansky of Baltimore, Maryland</div>
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Finalist: "Stars of the Four Winds" by Pamelia Paddock of Abilene, Texas</div>
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Second Prize: "Chasms 16: Under the Stars" by Beth Carney of Yonkers, New York</div>
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Finalist: "Celebrating the Wheels of Progress" by Margaret Caldwell of Panama City, Florida</div>
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Honorable Mention: "GCT Centennial Cake, CELEBRATE!" by Nancy S. Hoskins of Springfield, Virginia</div>
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First Prize: "Grand Central Terminal Mandala" by Ligaya Siachongco of Woodside, New York</div>
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Honorable Mention: "Family Tribute to Grand Central" by Nancy H. Gary of Hudson, Ohio</div>
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Honorable Mention: "Frank's Daily Commute" by Julie Quigley of Brookfield, Wisconsin</div>
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Finalist: "It's About Time" by Melinda Meers of Melbourne, Florida</div>
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Honorable Mention: "Meet Me at the Clock" by Christina Blais of Stratford, Connecticut</div>
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Finalist: "Coming and Going for 100 Years" by Karen Morrison of Katy, Texas</div>
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Finalist: "Escalator to the Stars" by Charlotte Noll of Lauderhill, Florida</div>
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Finalist: "Time Tables and Ticket Windows" by Patricia Porter of Lincoln, California</div>
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Finalist: "100 Years-- Out of the Darkness and Into the Light" by Kim Gimblette of Ossining, New York</div>
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Finalist: "Grand Timeline" by Laura Laslett of Greenwood Lake, New York</div>
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Finalist: "A Celebration of Service" by Angela E. Jones of Chula Vista, California</div>
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Finalist: "Happy Birthday" by Sheva Farkas of Silver Spring, Maryland</div>
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This one is my personal favorite as the top "photograph" is made from hundreds of very, VERY small pieces. AMAZING watercolor technique work. It is called "Movement and Connection" by Lisa Ann Bova from Dublin, Ohio and earned and Honorable Mention.<br />
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Finalist: "Memories of Grand Central Terminal" by Carolyn Rancier of Abilene, Texas</div>
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Honorable Mention: "As Time Goes By" by Gretchen Crozier of Fremont, California</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once upon a time I was sent a lovely note through my quilting Facebook page, This Quilting Mama. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It read, "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi Lynn - I hope you are doing well. I have a very random reason for contacting you. I'm cleaning out my parent's basement and found my grandmother's quilt squares that I had always wanted to have assembled. I know you are an avid quilter... </span><span class="emoticon emoticon_smile" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/yR/r/e_o94TChQjQ.png); background-position: -102px -946px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; color: #333333; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; height: 16px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 16px;" title=":)"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> would you consider taking on the project? Or know someone who might? Or any advice? Thanks in advance for any help you can give! </span><br />
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Carol"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carol and I went to Westminster Choir College, in Princeton, New Jersey for our undergrad years. The school is outrageously small and therefore everyone knows almost everything about each other. I haven't seen Carol since in mid-1990s, but do keep up via Facebook.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Antique fan blocks, completely hand pieced using 1930s fabrics, set on muslin with black blanket stitching. I was completely blown away. They were in great shape and had vibrant colors, no staining, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The project began under the mantra "Art takes time. I hope you aren't in a rush."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.940000534057617px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Carol confirmed that these blocks had been in a hope chest for decades, so therefore, what's a little more time?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"These fan pieces were made for my grandmother by her sister in 1938 on the occasion of her wedding. My grandmother and grandfather lived in Los Angeles and these pieces were moved around Southern California for many years in a cedar chest until she moved to Texas to live with my family in 1990. When she showed them to me, it was her great desire to have them finally turned into a usable quilt, instead of sitting dormant and unseen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love the variety of colors used throughout the pieces, and am so excited to see it finally assembled. While my grandmother, Marie, is no longer with us, this will be a beautiful reminder of both her and my great aunt, Margie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It took me awhile to find someone to piece them together, but it has been worth the wait!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cutting the blocks to one standard size was my first psychological hurdle. They were amazing and it seemed that Great Aunt Margie's spirit was sitting on my shoulder as I tried to decide how to proceed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pressure, all internal, was immense. Finally, I did it and made that first cut, then the next challenge appeared. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What background fabric that would work with all these amazing colors?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I searched high and low and eventually found this yellow with little letters and roses at a quilt shop in New Jersey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unable to deliver this quilt in person, I mailed it to Carol.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She, kindly, called me before opening it. Present at the time were her parents and sister. It was a very moving moment even for me, hundreds of miles away and on the phone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are the reviews in her own words:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Carol writes, "My sister said this: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">'What an incredible project this turned out to be. Seeing our Great A</span><span style="background-color: white;">unt's handiwork turned into such a lovely quilt was very touching. I'd be lying if I didn't say we could feel her presence in the room as we opened up the package that day. A real family heirloom, created by some incredibly talented people. Thank you!!'</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I will tell you that both my parents had tears in their eyes as we collectively unfolded the quilt. They had forgotten that I had sent off the squares to you, and it was such a wonderful and touching surprise to share as a family. My grandmother has been gone for more than 10 years now and having this "new" quilt is kind of like having a gift from her. My grandmother would be so happy to see the quilt in it's final state. She always had wanted it finished, but these things just, well, life gets in the way. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can't imagine being any happier with how it turned out. The incredible handiwork of the assembly down to the attention to detail in the quilting pattern... I am overjoyed to have this memento of times past. Thank God people like you have kept traditions like quilting alive. Please pass along my warmest thanks to the other ladies who had a part in this project. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sending you big hugs and my heartfelt thanks for completing this incredible work of art. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Warmly,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Carol"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The intersection of antiquity and modernity worked out to challenge, to inspire and to touch many people through this project.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hope your Grandmother and Great Aunt are smiling on us now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With gratitude for the opportunity and experience,</span><br />
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"The Cultural Arts Committee of the PTO provides assemblies and programs that are <span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">educational, stimulating and fun for students at Craig. We cover a range of subjects and </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">approaches in order to reach the varied learning styles and interests of our students. For </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">several years we have discussed the possibility of hosting another performer in residence. </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">That is a guest “teacher” who spends a longer time at the school and is able to meet with </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">students in more intimate, classroom settings than can be achieved during a morning </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">assembly.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We are planning to bring artist Anne Francey to Craig School as our artist in residence in </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">March. Ms. Francey, a native of Switzerland, is a resident of Saratoga Springs (NY) where </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">she is an art professor at Skidmore College. She also conducts art workshops for students. Her </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">goal in these workshops is creating collaborative murals using ceramic or paper tiles, </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">which combine to reflect a stated theme for the community. </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> We think her work is beautiful and meaningful and we are excited about what </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">she has to offer to our students.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Ms. Francey will work with us on a program called 1001 Faces, which will involve the </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">whole school; students and faculty, in the creation of individual portraits a </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">which are affixed permanently to a series of wall panels."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">That moment began my relationship with the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (www.alzquilts.org) and my promise to make them enough small format (9 by 12 inches or smaller) quilts to raise $1000 for Alzheimer's research. </span>My pastor's role was to provide a small piece of wall space upon which I would place the quilts each month and she would help me name them. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Over the next five years I made 30 little quilts included these and earned $1250. for the cause. I also dedicated my 40th birthday party to AAQI (and my church's Camp Fowler www.campfowler.org) and doubled the amount above. </span>It was a perfect union of my ability to be creative, to FINISH something, as well as the goal of fulfilling my promise to the organization. A perfect storm which kicked off a full-circle moment that came to conclusion this week.</div>
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Simultaneously as my little work and contribution, Ami Simms and the team at AAQI had monthly auctions, continual online sales and the following traveling quilt exhibit to raise funds and awareness about Alzheimer's disease.</div>
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"Alzheimer's Illustrated: From
Heartbreak to Hope" was a traveling quilt exhibit about
Alzheimer's. It was exhibited at venues throughout the United States
through September 2013.<br />
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The exhibit featured 236 quilts.
Long, narrow "Name Quilts" were made from 55 purple
patches, each marked with the name of a person who has/had
Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.<br />
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"wrong" side of the fabric patches are showing. The color
looks faded. The bright side of the cloth, full of the color and
pattern of life, has been turned to the inside of the quilt, never
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The Name Quilts created a wall more than
10,000 names, representing and honoring the 5.4 million people in
the United States who have this horrid disease.<br />
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Hanging among
the Name Quilts were 54 small format art quilts that tell the story
of Alzheimer's from a variety of perspectives.</div>
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In the last minutes of the AAQI project which is now officially retired as they raised over $1.1 Million for Alzheimer's research projects, I purchased three of these Name Quilts. There is a label on the back of each
saying who collected the names, where and who quilted it.</div>
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The full circle moment came when I made two of these long quilts into stoles as thank you gifts for my pastors. Jan and Craig Hoffman are a husband and wife ministry team. They have served our church, The First Reformed Church of Scotia, New York, for 20 years and this week marks the beginning of their next 20 years with us. Pastor Jan was my support through this project and knows Alzheimer's disease intimately through the suffering of family and of church members.</div>
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This gift provided closure for me of a long time commitment and passion, as well as a tribute to all those who know Alzheimer's as victims or caregivers.</div>
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Pastor Craig reminded us that "even when we do not know who the names are (on the strips of fabric), or even when we can't remember our own name, God knows and names us His Own." </div>
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For that, I am thankful.</div>
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