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It was pretty busy in “MY ROOM” this past week. Here are four of the quilts that spent some time on my longarm machine that I lovingly call Bessie. She’s my computerized girl an…
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Tasha Tudor chose one of the most powerful quotes, as the sign off to her letter writing, Take Joy. . Take Joy. . Did you get it? Had you already had the epiphany? . Doesn't seem possible. Yet it's true. Joy is always present. 'Take', is up to you. . Pic, above, here. . Green Meatballs have irritated me for decades, then this, above. How could I not laugh? Apparently I adore green boxes and wedges. . Recognize the stone path, above ? Variation of the centuries old stone wheelbarrow paths. . Hint of Tara Turf, above, too. Meadows of Tara Turf, pure pollinator habitat. Tara Turf under fruit trees historically named, guilds. Pic, above, here. . Evergreens/trees, meadow, home, above/below. Relationships. Core connections. House to garden, garden to Nature, us to garden, Nature to us. . At the front end, decades ago, I could not be this simple, above/below. Not for me, I was still too special, knew so little, thought I knew something. Now, the garden, above, reeks of sacred & scientific wisdom. A gift from centuries of the best minds. In conversation with us, if we'll listen. . Simple? I see layers of complexity, above. At the front end, for years, I saw none of the complexity. Complexity? Aka, layers of riches. . Pic, above, here. . Squished smaller, the meadow, below, is a brick terrace. Variations on a theme. . Pic, above, here. . Pic, above, here. . In all seasons, below, these gardens delight. Design your garden for February, and you've designed it for all year. No matter the style of your design. . Pic, above, here. . Aside from natural affinities of placement, house to meadow, house to hedges, house to allees, which reign, I assess an odd secondary reigning power. Furniture. Where do you want to sit, where do you want to eat, where do you want to visit with friends, where do you want to nap, where do you want to read....? . Aside from the bonuses of complexity with gardening simply, these are the gardens going full measure, into age, theirs and yours, and into the Great Beyond*. "Three chords, and truth.", as they described early Country music. . If you aren't sure about a garden this 'simple' it's apparent, they allow you to fill in, to a greedy heart's content, with flowers/flowers/flowers. Begin with flowers/flowers/flowers, please do. It's how I get the majority of my clients. . Simplicity of these gardens is a liturgy of Nature, if you see their complexity. Nothing we have to do, everything done by Nature, for us. . "Nothing is ever solved. Solving is an illusion. There are moments of spontaneous brightness, when the mind appears emancipated, but that is mere epiphany." Patti Smith . And I've been the epiphany hunter, for decades, in my garden. . "There’s no hierarchy. That’s the miracle of a triangle. No top, no bottom, no taking sides. Take away the tags of the Trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — and replace each with love. See what I mean? Love. Love. Love. Equal weight encompassing the whole of so called spiritual existence." Patti Smith . And I've broken layers of Garden Design into trinities, for decades. . "Just negotiating zones. No rules. No change. But then everything eventually changes. It’s the way of the world. Cycles of death and resurrection, but not always in the way we imagine." Patti Smith . And I've had decades with little change. Saturday, driving the Blue Ridge Parkway, a World Heritage Site, coming back, Beloved asked which way I wanted to go. Another highway or the Blue Ridge Parkway again. Depths within answered, "What is first will be last, and what is last will be first." Oddly, Beloved got it & he's not normally Metaphor Man. . Benediction, returning, along the Blue Ridge Parkway. . “The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who themselves don’t know yet whether they will have any effect…” Rebecca Solnit . Hope is like joy, it's always there, if we take. “You too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” Mary Oliver . We have great help along the way, with unseen partners, heroes, liberators, teachers, lovers, and none must necessarily be human. Gardens do this. Whether you think so or not. . For better and worse, growing up, my dad was an engineer, part of a team of 50 great engineers first to put man on the moon. Will never forget something he said about electricity, "We know how to use electricity, but we don't know what it is." . His lone sentence, about electricity, informs beyond its basics, if you take it to. . Recently, discovering trees use electrical current, no different than we have pulsing in our brain or heart, to communicate, I knew, finally, my communicating with gardens wasn't merely feel-good-mumbo-jumbo, nor one-way. Science caught up, to what Garden Whisperers have understood from birth. . "Yes, trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see… Underground there is this other world — a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate and allow the forest to behave as though it’s a single organism. It might remind you of a sort of intelligence." Suzanne Simard . From Brain Pickings, "Simard, whose research was foundational to German forester Peter Wohlleben’s wildly popular book The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, discusses her work and the improbable path that led her to it in her wonderful full-length TED talk: " Garden & Be Well, XO T If you have no time now, mental mark to watch later. Stunning. . A hoot, thinking back in college Horticulture would be rather safe from new discoveries. Dunce hat thinking. . Earlier this month Beloved & I went to Brasstown Bald, highest elevation in Georgia. After touring the museum, I debated speaking to the Ranger about the museum's outdated 'science' of flora in the region. . You know I did. . Ranger's face was frozen at 90 mph wind force. And I had mentally prearranged my delivery manner to him in advance. So. You watch the TED film about how Trees Communicate, tell me how it goes ............................................................................................................ My little story about driving the Blue Ridge Parkway earlier? First time to be in a true forest, after seeing this TED talk, above. Changes everything. How clueless we must be about so much more upon this Earth. . Thank you to everyone keeping up with Beloved. His procedure with chemo beads into the liver cancer zone went well. His liver transplant was delayed a year due to the prostate cancer. He must be clear of prostate cancer recurrence for a year due to immunosuppressants given after transplant. Those drugs make any cancer grow minimum 10x faster. . We're considering this year a sweet spot of time. And it already is. ........................................................................................................................................ * Leonard Cohen.....and the Great Beyond, below. 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Image 1: "Hope" Quilt by Kikuyo Miyashita 宮下季久代 from Japan There was a fantastic exhibit at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, USA, that ended January 5, 2014. Titled "Japanese Influences in Fiber Arts", the exhibit features, (among other things), award winning quilts from a major Japanese Quilt Show, the 11th biennial Nihon Quilt exhibit. [The quilts are now being exhibited at the New England Quilt Museum through April 12, 2014.] Image 2: "Connected Squares" Quilt by Anco Brouwers-Branderhorst from the Netherlands The Japanese show attracts many outstanding international quilts from around the world, and over 35 of the top quilts from Quilt Nihon were displayed at the museum in Cedarburg. Image 3: "In the Blue" Denim Quilt by Soo Hee Lee from Korea I have been to five quilt shows in the last three months, and yet the museum's exhibit has quilts whose design, workmanship and fabrics stand out among the many other quilts I have seen. I think that the international competition to be in the Japanese show gets a much more diverse body of work then local quilt shows. Image 4: Quilt by Maya Chaimovich from Israel In this blog post I am sharing a few of my favorite quilts from the museum exhibit. There are many more quilts from the exhibit I'd like to share, but for now these will have to do. Image 5: Close-up of the Kikuyo Miyashita quilt, lots of Keiko Goke fabrics I love seeing quilts in person, because then you get to see not only the overall impact of the quilt, but the small details, fabrics, and quilting choices that make up the quilt. The quilt above has so many cheerful fabrics I have never seen before. The impact of the colors in the quilt is amazing in person. Image 6: Close-up detail of the Anco Brouwers-Branderhorst quilt The color and construction of the geometric quilt above really caught my eye. The simple block construction, with the white squares offset, is enhanced by the quilting and the embellishment. Image 7: Close-up detail from the Soo Hee Lee quilt This denim masterpiece has to be one of my favorites. The use of zippers and belt loops and the arrangement of colors of denim is just fantastic in the sections of little houses, and then the overall arrangement of the houses in the quilt with a section of leaf pattern is just so creative. Image 8: Close-up detail from the Soo Hee Lee quilt I find myself just stunned sometimes at the talent, skill and time poured into some of the quilts. There is something exciting about seeing masterpieces, and being able to appreciate them. I can't quilt like these quilters, but I can enjoy their efforts, in the same way that I can enjoy a concert even though I can't sing well. Image 9: Detail 1 of Maya Chaimovich's quilt This last quilt is so different, I can look at it and study it, and still not know where one fabric ends and the next starts. But it is lovely to see. Image 10: Detail 2 of Maya Chaimovich's quilt I would encourage anyone interested is seeing this show to make the effort. Traveling to Japan to see a show like this is much harder then traveling to Wisconsin (or Massachusetts). People from as far away as Texas made arrangements to come and see this exhibit, and I can see why. These quilts traveled all over the world to get here. If you are interested in seeing more quilts from this exhibit, leave a comment saying so. If there is enough interest, I post more photos. Click on the images to see them enlarged (Yes, you can see these images even larger!). If you enjoyed this post you might also like: Batik Stars Quilt Batik Scrap Quilt Circle Quilt Heart Quilt Quilts Part 2 Valentine Vignette Valentine Hutch Spring Hutch Spring Needlework Vintage Lace Mosaic Heart Butterfly Bling I am linking up to these memes: Quilt specific links: Colorful life: Really random Thur (Entry 5 of 26.) Pretty bobbins: Quilt linky party (Entry 15 of 22.) Hotpinkquilts :Finished Fri (Entry 26 of 43.) Richard/Tanya quilts: Link a Finish Friday 93 (Entry 4 of 27.) Quilt story: Fabric Tuesday (Entry 37 of 70.) Freshlypieced:Work In Progress Wed (Entry 100 of 165.) Quilt Infatuation: Needle-and-thread Thur (Entry 1 of 69.) Marelize: Anything goes Monday 42 (Entry 45 of 45.) ihavetosay: Show-and-tell Tue (Entry 15 of 18) Fabric addict: Whoop Whoop (Entry 40 of 67.) Connie: Linky Tuesday (Entry 42 of 44.) Blossomheart: Sew Cute Tue (Entry 27 of 28.) Others I Love: Mod Vintage: Mod Mix Mon 127 (Entry 47 of 58.) Boogie Board: Masterpiece Mon 149 (Entry 92 of 98.) 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Embrace the beauty of autumn blooms. These incredibly inspiring fall flower gardens have us falling in love with nature all over again! 🍁🌼
Help me decide on a case for my new phone. See the choices right here. Last night, I went to bed ready to push the panic button about everything I have to do today. I need to make lunch to celebrate Erik's birthday on Saturday, which consists of two salads, pulled chicken filling for sandwiches, and baking a cake. Also, my monthly pedicure was rescheduled for today, and I have to go to physical therapy. I need to leave this morning at about 11:15 and I won't get home again until around 3:30. I was tallying up the hours I need against the hours I have (which is never a good idea), and I found myself feeling a little overwhelmed. But now, it's 8:30 a.m. as I sit down to write this. My chicken filling is in the crockpot. I'll deal with that when I get home this afternoon. My potato salad is finished and in the refrigerator. I fried bacon and hard boiled some eggs for my 7-Layer Salad that I'll finish this afternoon, and I still have all morning tomorrow to bake the cake. (Polishes fingernails on shirt.) So now I'm feeling pretty darned spunky and ready to face the next two days with a big smile. (Heaves heavy sigh of relief.) All of that to say that I haven't had any time to sew, and I probably won't have any time before Sunday. That's okay though because I got a megadose of quilting at the MQX Quilt show yesterday, and I have some pictures for you. I'll start by saying that I'm pretty exasperated with my camera. I left home with a full charge on the battery, but it went dead after taking about 20 pictures. That was pretty disappointing, not to mention disconcerting. Mike thinks the battery may have a short and that it is discharging just sitting in the camera. Fortunately, I have other batteries, but I didn't have any spares with me yesterday. That means I was taking pictures with my iPhone, and I really dislike the quality of the images. In any case, I'll show you what I have. These were a few of my favorite quilts. I don't have a lot to say about them, but I'll add in little comments if I just can't keep my mouth shut. This first quilt won best of show, and it's easy to see why. The quilting was amazing. For most of these I'll put the card before the quilt so you can read what the quilter had to say about it. Before I go on, I just want to say that the quilting in this show was over-represented with feathering, in my humble opinion. So many of the quilts were in traditional designs and quilted with lots of feathers. While the quilting and the piecing was fabulous, I found myself feeling as if I was seeing the same quilt over and over again. After a while, I was on the lookout for quilts that were unique and different. I think you'll see that reflected in these images. Pay attention to the red tie in this quilt. It ties itself as it moves from left to right. I liked this next quilt because it was different, but also because I was interested in how she had handled the reflection in the sunglasses. She printed the image on what I'm assuming is something like Printed Treasures. This next image is the next door I want to make for my Doors of Ireland quilt. If you look in the window to the right, you can see my reflection in the glass. I've been considering how to capture that when I make the quilt block, and the quilt above gave me an idea how to do it. What I don't know now is how to make it the right size without wasting lots and lots of those fabric sheets. I thought the next quilt was just too cute. I love how this quilter quilted the wrinkles in the elephant's skin. This next one is truly unique. It's all thread painted. How many miles of thread do you think it took to do this? The gears were actual gears from watches. The next quilt was quited by an 11-year-old! (Gasp!) I'd love to see what she's doing 30-40 years from now. This gave me some ideas for how to quilt my Vintage Miniature Sewing Machines quilt. I forgot to take a picture of the card associated with this next quilt, but I loved the details. It was inspired by bears in Yellowstone National Park. I love how she quilted Ursa Major into the sky. Very clever. These next several images are of quilting designs I liked. The pictures of the whole quilt were simply too poor to bother posting, but you can enjoy the quilting anyway. I included this one because I have this quilt on my to-do list, and I liked how it was quilted. I'm working up the nerve to quilt the white trees quilt next week. I wanted to quilt some snowflakes, and I had in mind a way to do it, but then I saw this, and I really liked it. I might incorporate a similar design. I liked this "hounds tooth" pattern. Another idea for my white trees quilt. And that's all I have from the quilt show. And now...I'm continuing on with my NP4 protest, which I really hope will be coming to a close soon. It seems those nuts in Washington were cracking yesterday evening. Something about opinion polls that were the worst in history. Not a bit surprising. Anyway...this image is from the Painted Hills unit of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in my home state of Oregon. And with that, I'm off to get on with the rest of my busy day. Enjoy your Friday!
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I queried "modern quilt guilds" in Pinterest this afternoon and discovered that 30 guilds have Pinterest sites. Each of those sites have various board and many pins. There are a few guilds who are just starting their sites and fewer than 15 pins, but some have as many several hundred to a thousand. If you are interested in modern quilts, fabrics and guilds, you might consider using Pinterest. One of the themes I noticed as I looked through several of the guild sites is the use of circles. If you want to easily go to the Pinterest site with all 30 modern guilds, click this link.
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