tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45460844652474642412024-03-19T06:58:19.633-04:00Hooray for Needlework!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-89009453459888396602015-01-20T17:18:00.000-05:002015-01-20T17:18:04.944-05:00CQJP 2014: July. CelebrateWell, hello. Where have I been!? Can't seem to get to finishing any needlework or blogging lately.<br />
I did finish my CQJP 2012 block for July and here it is.<br />
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The baby is my granddaughter born in July and now eleven years old. And the colors celebrate our country's birthday as well. <br />
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I'm half way through a year of blocks. I'm working now on June: rain forest. Motivate me to speed things up, someone.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-52818071519524276072014-08-20T19:38:00.001-04:002014-08-20T19:38:31.150-04:00Hello, Viking!It's the simplest Husqvarna Viking sewing machine and it's come to live at my house. What happened to my fifty year old Singer is a sad example of my incorrigible flakiness. I took out the bobbin and it's holder to rewind it. I walked across the room to get a spool of thread. When I returned, the bobbin holder was not to be found. It's got to be in this room or else aliens from another dimension have it. It's been 6 months at least and I haven't found it, so I've put the Singer aside with regret and brought a Viking into the house. I'm hoping it can ward off the aliens.<br />
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This post is to show you what I have created trying out the machine:
place mats. True to my crazy quilting love, they are crazy pieced using
the <a href="http://www.ludlowquiltandsew.co.uk/free-quilt-and-sew-patterns/free-quilt-patterns/layer-cake-quilt/" target="_blank">layer cake "stack and whack"</a>
method. I made eight mats, eight layers of fabric to stack and whack.
After all the whacked pieces were sewn together and layered with a piece
of interfacing, and a backing fabric placed right sides together on
the top, I sewed around the edges, leaving an open space to turn the mat
right side out. After ironing each mat neatly, I used the machine
feather stitch to decorate each seam and, at the same time quilt the
mat. I finished the whole with a machine scalloped satin stitch around
the edge. The machine works very nicely and I'm pleased with my set of
eight new place mats.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-44647719343713440552013-10-01T16:09:00.000-04:002013-10-01T16:09:37.765-04:00Surprised by needlework on a family reunion tourThis weekend I was in High Point, North Carolina for a reunion of the Mendenhall Family Association. When I was actively doing family research, I followed the line of my great-grandmother, Sarah Ann Mendenhall Mount, and found other Mendenhall researchers. I was a charter member of the Association when it formed and have attended all seven reunions held. <br />
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The Mendenhall's were among the first to buy property from William Penn in his new American land grant named Pennsylvania. Four siblings, John, Benjamin, Margary (Martin) and Mary (Newlin) moved there in 1684. I'm descended from John and his grandson James, who in 1862 moved to Guilford County, North Carolina, where many Pennsylvania Quakers migrated and settled. They were millers, farmers and very active in education. The little town of Jamestown near High Point was named for James. His grandson Richard built a plantation house there which is on the register of historic places and was on our reunion tour, along with three local Quaker meeting houses and Guilford College.<br />
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Okay, I'm getting to the needlework. There is a tiny little museum at the plantation containing some artifacts of the time period (late 1700s-early 1800s). First thing that caught my eye was this stunning dress.<br />
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I don't know if this was worn by Quakers; they did sometimes dress less plainly than commonly thought, but this is very "not plain." Here are some close ups of the lace and embroidery trim.</div>
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We then moved on to the Springfield Meeting House which maintains a larger museum of period artifacts. Here is a Quaker wedding dress.</div>
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Plain, but lovely. And there are these two other examples of nice needlework in the museum.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-66078480087000856512013-07-03T14:35:00.000-04:002013-07-03T14:35:04.135-04:00Big Honkin Needle Circle finishedI've been working slowly lately, but have finished the circle part of my quilt from the Betty Pillsbury workshops.<br />
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I continued the pansy theme with a beaded pansy from a pattern in <i>The Beaded Garden</i> by Diane Fitzgerald, Interweave Press LLC, 2005. I also titled the block "Big Honkin' Needle" because that is Betty's term for the size chenille needle needed to work with chenille. It's a size 14. I used it for the chenille flower inside the heart on the left.<br />
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Betty is, besides a crazy quilter, a herbalist. During informal discussion at the workshop, cleavers was mentioned. It's an interesting plant that makes tea said to aid weight loss. I pulled out my <em>Petersen's Guide to Edible Wild Plants </em>and used the line drawing of cleavers there to add a picture of it to the block. <br />
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I added a third dragonfly; this one with woven picot wings and a couple of 7 mm silk ribbon pansies. <br />
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I plan to set this circle into an asymmetrical border, inspired by a couple of Betty's quilts she had on display during the workshops. I'm putting it aside for now, though. I'm feeling the pull of my Pink Flower Garden quilt UFO. It's a big one and I plan to work on it until I get bored, then take up my CQJP blocks again. Follow your bliss.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-29650335866270438772013-05-14T17:44:00.000-04:002013-05-14T17:44:42.503-04:00Big Honkin' NeedleMy local Embroidery Guild of America (EGA) chapter (<a href="http://www.marega.org/constellation.html" target="_blank">Constellation</a>, Baltimore, Maryland) last week hosted two crazy quilt workshops by <a href="http://www.bettypillsbury.com/" target="_blank">Betty Pillsbury</a>. I was especially happy about this because I had gone to workshop Betty gave at the Adventure in Crazy Quilting retreat in Connecticut in 2011. She is good: clear instructions, interesting projects and fun. It was there we first heard her refer to using a "big honkin' needle" for embroidering with chenile thread. We used it again at the Constellation chapter workshops.<br />
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The first workshop was entitled "Motifs from Antique Crazy Quilts." Betty has a wonderful collection of antique crazy quilts from which she selected three to teach. I might have named this class "honkin' big motif" because they were, at 4x6 inches and 5x7 inches, way bigger than I have used on my quilts. After this class I will think bigger. <br />
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The first motif was a sprig of goldenrod worked in chenile on velveteen using our "big honkin' needles." <br />
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We were supposed to use silk chenile thread for this, but it was somewhat hard to find and I used rayon. It is a flat thread, whereas silk puffs out around the whole center. I like the way the rayon looks fine, but you can see the difference by looking at the lemon colored french knots in the lower center of the motif. These are in silk thread I got from a friend.<br />
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A second motif was also done on velveteen, a palette.<br />
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The flower on this is made with wired ribbon
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Third was a pansy made of silk dupioni with ribbon stem and leaf.</div>
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I worked this on a crazy quilted 15" diameter circle I made up for use in the class. <br />
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This is it after the work from the second workshop entitled "Notebook Sampler." Here are the motifs made in this workshop:
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A 2 1/2" pansy made from wired ribbon.</div>
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Two flowers with needlewoven petals and two beaded dragonflies.
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Spiderweb made with metallic machine embroidery thread and 2 bullion roses.
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-32040215761890886172013-04-13T16:05:00.000-04:002013-04-13T16:05:33.380-04:00CQJP2012 May and JulyAt last "Barefoot Girl," my May crazy quilt journal project block is complete. And here it is almost May again. Can I finish this project in 2013? We'll see.<br />
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I have blocks June through September pieced, but I have mislaid a piece of yarn I need for June. So I am working on July entitled "Independence and Creativity in honor of my nine year-old granddaughter, Lorelei, who was born in July. I's her infant "I am woman" pose featured as a silky on the block.<br />
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The red circle at the top left is meant to be a balloon, but it needs a different highlight to look like one. It will be one of 3 in red, white and blue. There will be mice on the block, because Lorelei has been a mouse enthusiast since she got two as pets for her fifth birthday. She still draws them often and they populate her fantasy place, Meek World. Other ideas will come in the crazy quilting way as I work along on the block.</div>
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This block's theme is another memory from my childhood on an Iowa farm. I was a barefoot girl in the summertime and sometimes so early in the spring my feet would be cold, but not cold enough for donning shoes. In summer the soles of my feet would get so tough I could race over rought terrain without any discomfort. And bare feet are very useful for climbing trees. I spent a lot of time in trees, eating mulberries, challenging myself to new heights and just sitting and swaying. After a rain, bare feet in the mud are a delight and help to dam up runoff rivulets. <br />
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I confess, I've never given them up. I still have my shoes off as much as possible. That could be why yoga is my exercise program of choice after walking. I don't wear shoes when I go into my backyard or visit the neighbors in theirs. And, I'm particular to have my shoes as comfortable as possible when I must wear them. <br />
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Here is my progress on my CQJP 2012 Barefoot Girl block. The photo of the girl is not me, but it could be. I found the image and the one of the dangling feet on the internet. I regret to admit I can't find them again to attribute them. I definitely will start making a habit of recording attribution for photos I use in the future. <br />
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I need to finish needle painting the cows and add a branch on the right to support the cat face (suggestion from Susan of my CQ group). The end is in sight. Following is a close up of the chicken group in the foreground. <br />
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I indulged a diversion while I was in Portland, Maine, to visit my my 9 year-old granddaughte, Lorelei (and her parents) during her school break. I took along the new-to-me book, <em><a href="http://www.interweavestore.com/Beading/Books/The-Beaded-Garden.html">The Beaded Garden</a>, </em>by Diane Fitzgerald, Interweave Press, 2005. I made a few of the flowers from the book with no particular use in mind. Lorelei gave it a try, but decided it wasn't for her. The beads were too small and she didn't want to try size 8 which I had. Here are the flowers I made while listening with Lorelei to Jim Dale read Harry Potter on audio.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-49196264024912859762012-10-10T14:08:00.002-04:002012-10-10T14:08:44.184-04:00Something Special from PeruIn July I took the trip I had been dreaming of for years: an Amazon River Cruise and Rain Forest exploration. I loved it. The weather was perfect, it was less buggy than here in Maryland, the trip leader was excellent and fun, lots of wildlife showed itself and the villagers (riverenos) were friendly. <br />
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I had my eye out for embroidery, of course. At a gift shop at an archeological site outside Lima, before we even reached the Amazon watershed, I found my favorite piece. Yes it's a mountain scene and I didn't visit the mountains, but I had to have it anyway.<br />
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You can see it is applique and embroidery with stumpwork. Just up my alley. I will use it for pointers to add figures to a years-old UFO I have, if I ever get back to it.<br />
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Below are close ups of some of the stumpwork figures on it.<br />
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In Iquitos, the headwaters port on the Amazon, there were other embroideries for sale that I wish I had bought. Ah, well.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-80700744755527014712012-06-26T16:17:00.000-04:002012-06-26T16:17:01.428-04:00Southern Spring, CQJP 2012 April BlockOh, me. This isn't the end of April, is it. It IS the finish of a flowered block inspired by spring in the south. I'm a native of Iowa. When I moved from there in 1970 to Raleigh, North Carolina, I was delighted with the blooming of shrubs and trees in the spring. Azalea, dogwood, redbud, apple, pear, and cherry blossom. And it goes on all summer with magnolia, crepe myrtle, mimosa. Just plain beautiful. I now live in Maryland, where it is still the south and I am still delighted every spring.<br />
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The photo on this block is of the pink dogwood in front of my house. Mine is the the house in the foreground with the big picture window for viewing it. The tree is very old. I don't know how many more years I will have it, so I savor all the more the pink beauties it blooms each spring.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-19188924914222656462012-04-12T10:07:00.000-04:002012-04-12T10:07:47.449-04:00March CQJP 2012 BlockYes, March brings the spring equinox and this year it was really spring when it came. <br />
In Iowa, where I grew up the daughter of a tenant farmer, March 1 was moving day. Farm leases began on March 1 so moving in could be finished in time to prepare the fields and plant the crops. Of course the old saying about March coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb or vice versa was based on a little bit of truth about the iffy weather. In my fifth grade year, my sisters and I were snowed in with my Aunt Sarah's family for three days when a blizzard came during our move. My parents were snowed in at the new farmhouse without everything hooked up. I wish now I could ask details about how they managed, but alas they are gone now. <br />
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My March Crazy Quilt Journal Project block remembers moving day, this time without the blizzard. The daffodils are blooming in crocheted glory and forsithia adds it's bright yellow to the day. The family dog makes the move, too, representing the livestock that goes. The year of the blizzard, our old dog Bud, made the trip, but didn't stay. He made his way back to farm where he had spent his life until now. He had actually been my Grandparents' dog and we had lived on the home farm after they retired to town. My Dad made arrangements for him to stay there with the people who moved in behind us.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-30726735655924889892012-03-05T11:39:00.001-05:002012-03-05T11:47:03.885-05:00February CQJP 2012 BlockIt''s woman power and the stages of a woman's life. I had no idea this would be it when I began. I just wanted to use a beautiful carved cameo cabochon of a girl which I have had for a long time.<br />
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This lovely maiden made we think of the stages of a woman's life: maiden, mother, wise woman. And a theme was born. <br />
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I added the vintage brooch of a woman I bought at <a href="http://www.accessoriesofold.com/">Accessories of Old</a> several years ago when they still had their bricks and morter store.<br />
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I needed the face of an old woman for the wise woman image, so I pulled out the package of sculpey my son-in-law gave me for Christmas and made one. Actually I made 3 and picked my favorite, although I almost decided to look for something else, because I'm definitely an amatuer sculptor. I think now she looks like she could give some good advise.<br />
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I also added a dragon charm as a symbol of woman power. Way back in 1978, as a slightly frustrated feminist (the Equal Rights Amendment to the constitution was going down to defeat), I was reenergized and inspired by reading, <em><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-god-was-a-woman-merlin-stone/1102478315?ean=9780156961585&itm=1&usri=when+god+was+a+woman">When God Was a Woman</a>,</em> by Merlin Stone. It was in this book I learned that the dragon was an ancient symbol for the goddess and I have used and collected dragon images and items since then. <br />
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My friend Helen, of my crazy quilt group told me it is also a symbol of transformation. And, doesn't that fit with the whole theme, too!<br />
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At last April's Crazy Quilt Adventure in Connecticut, we exchanged hand-made motifs. Some pretty ribbon flowers I received were the perfect color for this block. I regret I discarded the card that was with them, so I can't personally thank the friend who made them. I hope you see this to see how pleasingly they were used.<br />
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After all the seams were embellished, I had one spot left for a motif, so I furthered the mother theme with an image of madonna and child. <br />
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Here is the completed block, finished 2 days into March. I hope to make up that slippage and stay on schedule to have a complete quilt at the end of the year. I didn't want to start slipping this soon. These are 8 inch blocks.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-42823080914979121592012-02-01T17:12:00.000-05:002012-02-01T17:12:58.679-05:00CQJP 2012 January block finishedOkay. I finished my January block for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2012 (CQJP 2012) just in the nick of time. I hope this doesn't bode badly for the rest of the months. <br />
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Since I learned that the winter holidays origninated with ancient people celebrating the return of the sun, I have loved the idea. Well, in 1965, the sun's return heralded the arrival of my son, Joe, on the 28th. I think he began yelling and kicking before he was born. He was a difficult one to raise, but also a charmer. Hence all the meanings of "ka-pow" came into my life. I'm happy to report he became a responsible adult and the sun still returns to my pleasure in January.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-16767981742841900752012-02-01T16:08:00.000-05:002012-02-01T16:08:33.850-05:00Crazy Quilts are Quilts, Too<a href="http://www.pigtalesandquilts.com/" id="yui_3_2_0_1_13281012404001877" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1328102369_0">www.pigtalesandquilts.com</span></a> is having a Crazy Quilts are Quilts Too online contest and show. I didn't enter a piece in the contest, but I'm doing the "linky" thing. Here a picture of my latest finished piece, Green Apple Flutter. <br />
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It is 14 inches square. It started with a 6 inch square block I made to experiment with the colors orange and lime green. I decided to enlarge the piece to take to the Crazy Quilt Adventure retreat in Connecticut last April for a work piece. I decided to include some plastic stickers I had with uplifting words to go with the bright colors: grow, play and bloom. I used a fair number of new to me techniques on the block, including stumwork wired butterflies. My friend Susan brainstormed to help me chose a new name for it, Green Apple Flutter. I had been calling it red orange and apple green block. That didn't exactly flow. </div>
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I've been crazy quilting since a few months after I retired in 1997. I wanted to make a quilt and was looking through old ideas and patterns I had kept. I was struck immediately by a crazy quilt pattern, ca 1960s and started on a full sized quilt I called "The Sampler." I read that a spider and web on a quilt is good luck. I remembered the big garden spiders that built their webs between the corn rows on the Iowa farm where I grew up. I made a "corn rows" block with a spider in the middle that is 3 1/2 inches long from including the legs. She was published in the first issue of Quilting Arts magazine. I finished the quilt in 2001.</div>
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During that time I joined the Crazy Quilt group on Quiltropolis and found a great community for learning and friendship. I participated in a number of round robins over several years. I enjoyed them a lot, but have given them up because I want the time to work on my own projects. As various new crazy quilt groups have formed, I've joined them, too. Can't say enough about how valuable they are for promoting our art.</div>
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Since Marguarite means daisy, the quilt was full of daisy motifs and "silkies." It was made of cotton fabrics from my stash in purples.</div>
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And another for my sister: Bells and Butterflies for Betty</div>
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This is blues, her favorite color and features the objects of her collections, bells and butterflies.</div>
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These are some examples. As I look back through my pictures I see I've had a lot of fun with my crazy quilting needle. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-54864593217304890482011-12-22T14:21:00.001-05:002011-12-22T14:46:15.917-05:00Two OrnamentsSolstice is here, Hanukkah is underway, Christmas eve is coming soon. Best wishes to all of you for these and other celebrations of the season.<br />
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This year I made two Christmas ornaments. The first was for my Crazy Quilt Group holiday exchange. I forgot to take a picture, but Susan took one during the party. <a href="http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com/2011/12/habit-of-gathering.html">Here</a> is her post on the event. <br />
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The second one was for my friend Laura. We exchange dogsitting, so I took some pictures of her dog Wagner while he was staying with us, printed them on silk and pieced them into the ornament.<br />
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Both ornaments were made with four inch circles pieced on interleaving paper instead of muslin to get enough stiffness to hold the form. The embellished, folded in half and put together like segments of and orange. Laura's has three segments so Wagner's picture shows well. The exchange one now belonging to Maureen has five segments. I rather like the way they turned out.</div>
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I have a Nook e-reader and use Barnes and Noble for online book shopping because I want to support their brick and mortar stores. There's little more gratifying to me than a couple of hours browsing in a real bookstore. On Tuesday I did it at the store near the Metro Center station in the district (Washington, DC).<br />
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I did some holiday shopping and bought a couple of things for myself. One I bought for embroidery reference will surprise you. It's <em><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tattoo-sourcebook/1104950460?ean=9781435105959&itm=3&usri=tatoo+sourcebook">Tattoo Sourcebook</a></em> by the editors of Tattoofinder.com. It has 516 pages of mostly tattoo designs. The introductory chapter on tatooing was interesting, but it was the designs that caught my attention. Many of them would make great embroidery motifs. I plan to use some. But not this one:<br />
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I do like dragons and here is a sweet one:<br />
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And trees. Trees are great on crazy quilts. Here's a nice tree of life.<br />
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Here's something very pretty for a music themed block:<br />
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The images are divided into categories, each section beginning with a history, paragraph on symbolism and something specific about the tattoos in the category. From this I got some info about symbolism for the "wisdom" block I'm planning. During Betty Pillsbury's class at the Crazy Quilt Adventure in April, I embossed a piece of velvet with the word "wisdom." It's to be part of a block with other words meaning wisdom such as "sophia." I learned that the salmon represents wisdom to the northeast Indians and the feathered serpent was a wisdom god to the Aztecs. With an owl, those images should make a very wise block.<br />
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Look everywhere for cq inspiration.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-79228318492981562222011-08-11T14:49:00.000-04:002011-08-11T14:49:23.415-04:00Green Apple FlutterLast blog I ask for suggestions for a name of my red orange and apple green block. <a href="http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com/">Susan Elliott</a> went on a roll with suggestions as you can see in the comments on that blog. I didn't pick one of hers, but they inspired me and the new name for the block is Green Apple Flutter.<br />
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Flutter refers to the butterfly wings featured on fabric in the block from old komonos. Other butterflies have joined them on the block including two stumpwork ones.<br />
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I've been flirting with stumpwork for a while. Sadly, sadly missed our EGA chapter workshop by Jane Nickols because I was sick. Very disappointed. But, I have a new book that gives the instruction I wanted: <em>Royal School of Needlework's Essential Stitch Guides: Stumpwork, </em>by<em> </em>Kate Stinton published this year. Mary Corbet <a href="http://www.needlenthread.com/2011/07/rsn-stumpwork-essential-stitch-guide-book-review.html">reviewed the book</a> recently. She likes it, too.<br />
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My butterfly wings were made as "wired fabric slips." They are attached by piercing the block fabric with a stylus or laying tool, inserting the wires through the hole, folding them back and tacking them down. This leaves the wings free for a 3-D look. This close up photo shows I need to do some more trimming of the basic fabric around the edges. The actual butterfly is 1 1/2 inch across.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-64091867382878089612011-08-02T11:36:00.000-04:002011-08-02T11:36:22.005-04:00Silk threadsAt the New England Regional Embroidery Guild of America seminar in April, I won an opportunity basket. I regret I can't remember and credit the chapter that donated it, but I thank them. The basket became my granddaughter's Easter basket. The $100 gift certificate to <a href="http://thistleneedleworks.com/">Thistle Needleworks</a> was my treasure. I used it to buy a variety of Soie d'Alger silk floss. This is Mary Corbett's favorite silk floss, as she blogs about <a href="http://www.needlenthread.com/2006/06/silk-thread-whats-difference.html">here</a>. I selected several runs of one color for use in thread painting. Here is my new stash:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRGQQL9ODxL13ifTPMqPKnyWmYFTyiX4zGmI6PrIU7I9JzMf9fE_fXB_v5wguvX7zl7AKhyphenhyphenILyhKYWvBwkhLY0wjNdoMgGWP3lf6WcUjUYLvcUOOHxZqU1T1ur8EOYw0jC7MFIOFTg7S0I/s1600/IMG_0125.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRGQQL9ODxL13ifTPMqPKnyWmYFTyiX4zGmI6PrIU7I9JzMf9fE_fXB_v5wguvX7zl7AKhyphenhyphenILyhKYWvBwkhLY0wjNdoMgGWP3lf6WcUjUYLvcUOOHxZqU1T1ur8EOYw0jC7MFIOFTg7S0I/s640/IMG_0125.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Okay, I had a little money left so I bought one package of silk ribbon, too. Then it turned out they were out of skeins of several of the colors I chose, so I bought the larger packages of those. Anyway, I'm happy with them. I hurried to try one out on my red orange and apple green block (I need a better name for this block. Suggestions?) Here is a butterfly seam treatment from Carol Samples' book.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfUEk7eauFqCVxcyeVRRYLsE3U5DZy6S3JBoecL4CwS0-TP61RICiraMQcmcwZIzG0rr14Sjpa0uW0_FbtBJCMeL90LlrSfACeZ_3TV6qvN1gaobjVgIkGgUawyaVz_ka4NSxoXtaBr18/s1600/IMG_0126.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEfUEk7eauFqCVxcyeVRRYLsE3U5DZy6S3JBoecL4CwS0-TP61RICiraMQcmcwZIzG0rr14Sjpa0uW0_FbtBJCMeL90LlrSfACeZ_3TV6qvN1gaobjVgIkGgUawyaVz_ka4NSxoXtaBr18/s640/IMG_0126.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also used it for the seam at the bottom of this picture.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWPyXpt-4f4RqHL4lSvxTGhB9lvVo0A_91q7azY08wFWL_rbeBjfhewMq7bE93-w8JbeRnxsBxOfsyQ6YMR0iJkfLWEpzWSmpGrruyAFVEMPDy0yHv2K5flaANUzLmBXljabcQIeMZzU9/s1600/IMG_0127.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWPyXpt-4f4RqHL4lSvxTGhB9lvVo0A_91q7azY08wFWL_rbeBjfhewMq7bE93-w8JbeRnxsBxOfsyQ6YMR0iJkfLWEpzWSmpGrruyAFVEMPDy0yHv2K5flaANUzLmBXljabcQIeMZzU9/s640/IMG_0127.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So far, I'm not sure I like it all that much better than DMC cotton floss. Shush! Mary Corbett does say the cotton floss will eventually lose it's sheen. Haven't noticed that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another thing I did on the block is enhance the butterfly wings printed on the fabric with couched silver thread, shisha mirrors and beads.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_GO6cvgG8mAjztibglYt_cct6TH1v7UzD4oJHljmaheKtO3MiYb_G7AoDSgLIbz6q05mCriXzJEFuC8pXdYfX_RQV3uJ3Z20U9ZwhzAcX508KSKLPo3MKaQLkiBYGDFFkB3PMafJBoyf/s1600/IMG_0128.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1_GO6cvgG8mAjztibglYt_cct6TH1v7UzD4oJHljmaheKtO3MiYb_G7AoDSgLIbz6q05mCriXzJEFuC8pXdYfX_RQV3uJ3Z20U9ZwhzAcX508KSKLPo3MKaQLkiBYGDFFkB3PMafJBoyf/s640/IMG_0128.JPG" width="364" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">That's my latest update on this block. The too hot weather here is keeping me in, so I hope I can finish it soon. Other projects are waiting.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-54609407360035072642011-06-29T17:05:00.000-04:002011-06-29T17:05:02.741-04:00Red Orange and Apple GreenHere is an update on one of the blocks I took to Connecticut to work on during the Adventure in Crazy Quilting and Sharon Boggon's workshop. The block needs a better name than "red orange and apple green" but I haven't yet been inspired. Marmalade and Green Apples? Citrus Grove? Ummm. I showed this picture in April when I reported on the retreat.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6HvxAFDs6EKdKLHYeRNR6e_tLnyyXo3FEnMRGJa7A-Srp38GMgwx46ZhRBWlyUx88Nron2f4vaq7lWlMa46mKTwMBW6WPmTyje14rI4GOX8gA1CpJT69qqREQqMLZJVlvmfsPFpVAYKjx/s1600/HeartFlower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6HvxAFDs6EKdKLHYeRNR6e_tLnyyXo3FEnMRGJa7A-Srp38GMgwx46ZhRBWlyUx88Nron2f4vaq7lWlMa46mKTwMBW6WPmTyje14rI4GOX8gA1CpJT69qqREQqMLZJVlvmfsPFpVAYKjx/s1600/HeartFlower.jpg" /></a>Folks who looked at this saw spiders in the two major things I had done on it. I sure hadn't thought spiders when I made them. Well, I don't want this to be a spider block, so one of them had to go. The covered bead is now a flower with heart petals.<br />
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The other one, the shisha stitched grow sticker, got legs added to make it into a spider. I hope it's abstract enough so it won't freak out the spider squeamish. I used gold blending filament for the web.<br />
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There are a lot of feral cats in their neighborhood and they love them. They rescued two injured kittens which became house cats. They've captured and neutered several more including the main mother and feed them outside. Here is Joe with one of the outdoors cats. They are all named, but I don't know which one this is. Joe and Danielle do.<br />
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When they bought the house in Carolina Beach, it had this striking painted metal salmander sculpture on the outside.<br />
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I was surprised to see it in new colors this time.<br />
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We spent a pleasant afternnoon in historic Willmington on the river. Here are Joe and Danielle under a sculpture of the endangered Venus flycatcher, now confined to the Carolina coastal area.<br />
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We took a ghost tour led by actor John Scott.<br />
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Carolina Beach has a summer carnival with fireworks on Thursday nights.<br />
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It's a good community I enjoy visiting. Except for having to fly to visit, I'm glad Joe and Danielle moved there.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-8352555544478919152011-06-23T08:11:00.000-04:002011-06-23T08:11:06.103-04:00CQ Adventure Block Finished<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEkUI-lxnkcDuQdzt_fAMBi4aNkvL1fjOk9xp60ndK22lkiJvMgH-1t0QYkmP5dZd-Eexk0nt82_wPEZFRK4g7qcfhFx8vwveZR0xDVUVrUWF2eIULC9dyJBhNiblmG0LfFw6RrRu6-Ill/s1600/IMG_0090.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEkUI-lxnkcDuQdzt_fAMBi4aNkvL1fjOk9xp60ndK22lkiJvMgH-1t0QYkmP5dZd-Eexk0nt82_wPEZFRK4g7qcfhFx8vwveZR0xDVUVrUWF2eIULC9dyJBhNiblmG0LfFw6RrRu6-Ill/s640/IMG_0090.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
I have finished the block I used for learning stitches and motifs at the 2011 Adventures in Crazy Quilting retreat for <a href="http://inaminuteago.com/">Sharon Boggon's</a> class and workshop in Connecticut in April. Sharon does encrusted embellishment on her quilts, a different style from mine. I like the more traditional motif and seam treatment style. So, it was interesting to me to experiment with more encrusting. You'll note I still left a significant amount of lightly embellished space. I ran the encrusting in a swoosh across the block. This doesn't keep the eye inside the block as Sharon teaches for design, but I like it. <br />
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I used the French facing technique for finishing after tying the backing to the block. The technique was published by Allie Aller in <a href="http://www.cqmagonline.com/vol06iss04/articles/745/index.shtml">CQMagOnline.</a> I like the neat look of it.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Here is mine.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtjWTwDdlq4GOUwHAbzxh5hHoOW9RPKQLiSNcnsSOMD0TuJU1FRudNcEIOGhyx8nM7sOedwwwW6Tu8-EXK0DgRankiY9fpIG_usbBcWXI2pxWmH0HL5lzaE0M5CVP7xWp8ezSoVM4HpNco/s1600/HeartsandHands-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="630" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtjWTwDdlq4GOUwHAbzxh5hHoOW9RPKQLiSNcnsSOMD0TuJU1FRudNcEIOGhyx8nM7sOedwwwW6Tu8-EXK0DgRankiY9fpIG_usbBcWXI2pxWmH0HL5lzaE0M5CVP7xWp8ezSoVM4HpNco/s640/HeartsandHands-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-59882084835059473542011-04-23T16:19:00.000-04:002011-04-23T16:19:37.896-04:00Crazy Adventure and Sharon Boggon WorkshopWhat an adventure! What a learning time! What great new friends! It was the Adventure in Crazy Quilting and the 3-day workshop by Sharon Boggon of Australia. All were organized and guided by <a href="http://maureensvintageacquisitions.blogspot.com/">Maureen Greeson</a> and <a href="http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com/">Susan Elliott</a>.<br />
It was Sharon's first trip to the USA and we were so lucky to learn from her in person, for one day during the Adventure and during the workshop. Of course we're accustomed to learn from her <a href="http://www.pintangle.com/">online</a>.<br />
Geraldine Krueger has been demonstrating on her <a href="http://olderrose.blogspot.com/2011/04/adventure-with-sharon-boggon.html">blog</a> how she is using some of the design elements Sharon taught. Keep going to earlier posts to see the series.<br />
Additional one-day classes during the Adventure were taught by <a href="http://alliesinstitches.blogspot.com/">Allison Aller</a> and <a href="http://www.bettypillsbury.com/">Betty Pillsbury</a>. Awsome line up. I really had a good time and learned so much I can use.<br />
I didn't take many pictures. Others did, but I can't point you to them at the moment. Below is a picture of Sharon Boggon at work. On the left is Susan Elliott, photographer, and on the right, Helen McEntee, student.<br />
Here are pictures of three of the pieced blocks I took to work on. The fourth was my block for the <a href="http://crazyquiltinginternational.blogspot.com/2011/03/hearts-and-hands-for-sendai.html">Hearts and Hands for Sendai</a> project. I'm working to finish it and will post about it when I'm finished. It benefits from Sharon's design instruction. <br />
The first is the block I put most of my practice stitches on. <br />
The second is my exploration of orange and apple green. It has shisha stitch on a penny and a sticker I had stuck on with it's own adhesive.<br />
The third is a work in progress: Purple baskets. It's 21 inches square.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpqT0UUTGn9M39EN5D6GO1Ylx3Xo4LOJUZGvAECqgZCP1UtVPQu2nDNSl1JXUMJa37NMYfrW7N9UN1HOzYAdezBxt9uIPKp1g0OYAahhLgFox43xX6TcPi2G7YiZgKBb5nE7KuEGY3HoM/s1600/2010-12-195.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="494" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpqT0UUTGn9M39EN5D6GO1Ylx3Xo4LOJUZGvAECqgZCP1UtVPQu2nDNSl1JXUMJa37NMYfrW7N9UN1HOzYAdezBxt9uIPKp1g0OYAahhLgFox43xX6TcPi2G7YiZgKBb5nE7KuEGY3HoM/s640/2010-12-195.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The first class I took was "Painting and Gilding and Stitching, Oh My!" This was right up a crazy quilter's alley, because she provided tables full of supplies, told us how to use them and set us loose to try them all and develop our own design. I started by trying markers on white silk, making an oval shape swirled with color and a sketchy fish. I don't know where the fish came from out of the recesses of my mind, but it became my creation piece. Lynn provided a lot of papers and I used these for the panels below the fish oval. I'm not sure I like using the papers. Stitching through them can leave holes and tiny tears if you're not very careful.</div></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">My birthday was on September 5, during this class so I went to the local Ghiardelli chocolate shop and bought a tin of the dark variety to share with the class. That was a hit and I got a chorus of Happy Birthday sung for me.<br />
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During the days between classes, volunteered a few hours at the <a href="http://www.ruthkernbooks.com/">Ruth Kern bookstore</a>. What a selection! What a temptation! I kept in mind how these books would be in my luggage however and didn't overdo my purchases. Here are some pages from the ones I bought:<br />
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This is a gold holiday tree (some have thought it a witch's hat. Perhaps I should display it at Holloween as well. ). My former crazy quilt group members challenged each other to make these back in 2003. It's 2 feet tall. The others were more like 6-10 inches tall.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4546084465247464241.post-44013405948466411712010-09-29T12:49:00.006-04:002010-09-29T12:55:02.435-04:00Amtrak to California <br />
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I left Washington, DC, Union Station at 4:05 pm on August 25 on the Capitol Limited to Chicago. Connected with the Southwest Chief to Los Angeles; Pacific Surfliner to Oceanside, California. Rented a car to visit my friend Ann in Carlsbad. Returned on the Surfliner to Los Angeles; Subway to Long Beach for a stay on the Queen Mary. Then the Coast Starlight to Oakland; Amtrak thruway bus to San Francisco for the Embroidery Guild of America Seminar. Home on the California Zephyr to Chicago and the Capitol Limited back to DC. I love riding the train. These routes have some of the most spectacular scenery to be seen in the country.<br />
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I didn't take any pictures while visiting Ann. On the way to Oceanside, though, I took this picture of the ocean with my cell phone and texted it to my son with the message "The Pacific." He returned the following picture with the message, "The Atlantic." Tee hee.<br />
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This was my first trip to San Francisco. I did some touring, although not as much as my roommate did. She was Violet Anderson from New Hampshire who I had not met before. We got on famously. The hotel was within a few blocks of Chinatown, which I shopped twice and of Union Square, meeting place for a walking tour of the Victorian houses that survived the 1906 earthquake. I didn't ride the cable car. They were always way too crowded for me when I was out - lines to board. Seeing them was enough. One evening, in search of a restaurant, Violet and I walked almost all the way up Nob Hill. Puff, puff!</div><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">For more pictures than you want to see, go to <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/105097630970683282622/20100827">http://picasaweb.google.com/105097630970683282622/20100827</a>#</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971467142314900997noreply@blogger.com0