Today In…

Tree number one

Parker/Jones Tree, Parker Tree, Ross Tree

Self-timer — nice downhill shot

What do you think, Hill?  Enough to decorate?

I had an abundance of leeks from “the farm”, and we have this great cookbook by Molly Katzen –The Vegetable Dishes I can’t Live Without.  Did I *really* need a printed recipe to accomplish this appetizer?  Sliced leeks with a bit of olive oil, baked in a 275 degree oven for more than an hour.  Huh?

So…tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and lots of this family will be at various locations for their meal.  I know that I will be taking pictures of Aunt Lynn’s gathering and food and posting them when I get home.  Can I encourage Clay, Adam, Bryce and Nathan to do the same?

Note to Clay:  at one time the “poster’s” name was listed at the top of the post(like you have at the top of each of your posts at exitcreative). Can we get that on Today In… again?

Whispering to Durry in some magic, scientific booth.

This museum has changed a lot since we were all last there in 1982.  I’m remembering this as the main entrance.  Now we enter from below the whole complex.  Still no sign of Mon ChiChi.

Waiting for the bus, and looking a little tired. The museum is located in Hyde Park, which is also the location of the University of Chicago.  This is the neighborhood where Michelle, Barack, Sasha and Melia live.  We did NOT see Bill Ayers lurking around anywhere.

Without giving it too much thought, stop and take a self-timed picture of yourself.  Post it, or email the photo to me and I will do it for you.

The Ultimate Quilt Guild Challenge Honorable Mention. So as a group, we came in “4th” out of the 17 guilds that were juried into the show.  We don’t know how many guilds actually entered.   Mine is the 4th quilt from the left — titled: “8/28/07, 8:28pm”

Rose Collaboration

I have now put all four sections together, and then added some extensions to the rose petals so they would flow into the border.   My original section is the top left quadrant.  Soon I will had lots of quilting attempting to pull the sets into a greater whole.   The original photograph is on the left.

Three other friends and I started a “fractured” quilt project. We were each to interpret a picture of a rose. The picture was divided into four quadrants. The picture on the left is my four sections. I then kept one of the sections (the top left quadrant), and then received three new sections (above right). I will sew my four new segments together, then layer them with batting and do whatever quilting I want to do. We are now supposed to have our quilt done by December or January to share with each other, and the guild.

(Loren Justice, Gerry Smeltzer, dp, Edith harmer, Molly Miles and Pat Durbin)

My quilt guild in Eureka has had a group of quilts juried into the national show in Nashville this August.  We entered a group of eight quilts in “The Ultimate Quilt Guild Challenge”.  We were one of the ten groups in the country to be selected as semi-finalists and to possibly win one of the three monetary awards.  Our guild challenge was to individually create a quilt with the theme: A Peak into the Forest.   My quilt was created with hand-dyed fabric and photo-transfered images.  This is what “my forest” looks like at sunset at the end of the summer.

So we have sent eight quilts off for judging, and we hope that we can win some of the prize money for the guild.

New kicks!