Back to Quilts

Lately, I've quilted quite a few quilts. Most are Christmas presents so I can't show them until after Christmas. I can show these. They are on display at Blue Windmill Galleries Here in Abingdon. Check them out at ...
http://bluewindmillgalleries.com/

I am working on the quilt on the left to learn how to make the stripes all line up and to make curves work in my quilts. I made the quilt in the right out of an old paisley tablecloth that once belonged to my sainted mother. I call it "Carousel at the Carnival."
I hope everyone is having a great long weekend!

YIPPY!

I just want to say how excited I am that the trickle down theory is not going to guide our economic politics any more. I see this election as a change of heart. Greed no longer will rule. Everyone will get to sit at the table, roll up our sleeves and figure out how to let America be a healthy community rather than one where our situations are dictated to us by large and larger entities that do not have the best interests of all the people at heart.
YIPPY!

A wedding

This apartment building may not look like much, but this is where I lived with my brother during the summer of 1978. JJ came up to visit me on the first of July. He planned to wait until the fourth to ask me to marry him but he couldn't wait. He asked me on July 2nd. We were sitting accross from each other. I had a state of the art cardboard box posing as a dinning room table. We were sitting on the carpetted floor eating yogurt for lunch and he asked me, "Will you marry me?" I said, "Of course I'll marry you."
When we visited the building last month, JJ asked me agian. Of course I would marry him again.

A good friend of mine, Jessica, got married on The 18th! This is part of her first dance with her new husband. We had a great time at their wedding.
Wat can I say? I am real fan of marriage.

Vacation

JJ and I are on our last day of our vacation to the see the New England leaves. Our number one reason for traveling up to Maine was to see my old high school friend Polly. We had a great time visiting with her and her delightful family. Here is a picture of Polly with her daughter.
JJ was in three marathons during our trip. One in Mew Hampishire, one in Maine and one in Connecticut. Run JJ run!

We saw quilts. This Bargello was done by Janice Maves and is in the museum above a quilt shop on Intercourse PA. Thye sell material for $6.50 a yard. The same materail goes for $9.50 in every other quilt shop I've been to. I guess they can do that because they are Amish and all live in community.

We ate lobster.
We went to a monastery.

We went to the wadsworth museum and saw more quilts.

The Museum had many great paintings. Salvador Dali,

Piccaso,

The Lady of Shallot
And this New York guy.
Very cool!!!

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Obama!

Yesterday was quite a day. My good friend Karen got a ticket for me to go see Obama speak in Lebanon Virginia. This was going to be a big high point for me. I was excited, but I committed to co leading a meeting at my church on energy. My co leader Deborah and I already changed the date of the meeting twice to accommodate other attendees. I decided to be responsible to my original plan and forgo seeing Obama so I could help to lead the group. :( Sometimes being a responsible grown up isn't so fun.
Before the church meeting, JJ and I decided to go to the farmers market in Abingdon to get some vegetables.
There was a great hullabaloo going on when we parked for the market and I (of course) was drawn toward the excitement. Believe it or not, Obama stopped to eat at Pop Ellis' soda shop on Main street here in Abingdon!
We were just in time to be searched by a the secret service and get in the front row to see Obama.
Obama ran across the street to shake hands with us.

It was a very exciting experience. I shook his left hand. My friend Pam (she got his autograph) told me he is left handed.

This is the best picture I got of Obama.
He also shook hands on the other side of the street.

Then he got on his bus to go to Lebanon Virginia so he can catch the votes of the 33% of undecided voters in Virginia's 9th district. GO OBAMA!

New Wall Hanging

Here is one of my new quilts. I call it approaching serenity. I haven't decided whether or not to add another piece of the blue batik cloth onto the end of the quilt and extend it out somewhat. What do you think?