6/18/14 plus some extras

From Ann
Here are two pictures of the embroidery Joan did for me on her grandmother's hankie. Her grandmother embroidered crocheted the edge. ( from several years ago)

The poem, stanza one,  by e.e. cummings:

I thank you God for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky: and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes.

Quotes Ann took from the Wisconsin Arts News (from the Wisconsin Arts Board) 2013

Here is the email that will sign you up to the Wisconsin Arts Board "daily" it usually comes once or twice a week. . .FULL of good links but mostly I only look at the quotes.

subscribe-artsnews@lists.wi.gov

“In good times arts are magical, and in tough times they are essential. That’s when you need them the most. Art makes you human."--Bruce Dethlefsen, WI Poet Laureate

“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of stuwith facts... it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.” Robert Hutchins

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”  John F. Kennedy 

 “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.“ - Joseph Chilton Pearce

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.” – Walt Whitman

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?” - Lily Tomlin

“Books had instant replay long before televised sports.” – Bern Williams

“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.” – Clementine Paddleford

“I'm not young enough to know everything.” - J. M. Barrie

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz

“Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.” - Katharine Graham

“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” – Michael Caine

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn’t that long ago that we were all swept away by the Macarena.” – Jon Stewart

"The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last." - Louise Gluck

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.” – Alice Walker

"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants." — Coco Chanel

“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

“work through problems, not around them.”  Barbara Dueholm

 “Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.” – Sydney Smith

“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.” – George F. Will

“Art must take reality by surprise.” - Francoise Sagan

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them
so gently?  And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white
quilt; and perhaps it says 'Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer
comes again.'--Lewis Carroll
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Pam O worked on the piece of the left Then went "Outside the Box" on the right!

Pam is starting a new one with cubist women's faces - When she added french knots to it.  "These orange dots make a huge difference!  DOTS the spirit..."

Peggy is embroidering blueberries on her white shirt.  Here are her drawings and thread.

Peggy also brought her accordion book  about the Solstice. 

The cover has a lovely textured paste paper she made.

 She drew the moon phases and ages of women & the flowers from her garden. Exquisite!

Maureen McQ came and shared her collaged Cats. & she told us about her thesis on Mapping the Creative Process.  And a book Map as Art by Katherine Harmon

Pamela N is working on her Hanky - these finger cots help her hold the needle!  She has wonderful persistence - this is her 3 or 4th time starting over!!

Talking about the storms and tree damage - Peggy told us about being in a tornado & how wonderfully helpful her insurance was - Amica  rated best in service and pays dividends.

We talked about Nancy Daly and her murals.  Nancy ran Tenney Nursery when my girls were little.  It was a wonderful place.

Margaret brought her daughter Cory - who was learning to knit.  The knitters group was very helpful when we couldn't answer a question she had.  She is a High School teacher visiting from Ohio.

Pamela N brought an article on Louise Bourgeois- who's home is being turned into a museum in NYC.

Wikipedia called her the founder of Confessional Art.

Acrylic paint or Sharpee's can cover scratches or stains or the ends of hanging rods.

Another Wonderful Wednesday!

Friday I went down to the International Quilt Festival in Rosemont, IL.

Here are some images from that  --

There were many elaborate applique pieces updated Baltimore Album Quilts

Sharon Chambers' Enchanted Garden

And many realistic Portrait ones-

 This is Emmy Tovo by Sherri Culver

Some used text - I liked this hand written one. Many different scales of writing

There were Fun contrasts in scale in pieced work too. 

I asked strangers to put their hands in my pictures!

Kaye Koler's TINY log cabin " Home at Last"

 Log cabin  Unknown maker 1/4 " logs!

Santa Fe Sunlight by Janet Henderson

But my special favorite was "aprons are a tradition in my family" by Eileen Daniels who made blocks from handmade aprons with vintage hankies in the pockets!