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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Friday, April 8, 2011

Infinite Variety: Red & White Quilts, Part 2

Many of these quilts were for personal use, but many were also created as fund raisers.

The Red Cross one featured first (down below) was pieced together during WWI, by a New York Westchester/Newburgh chapter of enterprising young quilters. Squares had a variety of messages -- but this one caught my eye: (Pardon the blur of a badly zoomed photo)

I am sorry I made you cry.



If that doesn't get you ...

Maybe the baby blanket will?

How about the message from a mother, for a child's marital bed? (um? ew?!)

Or the ingenuity of a quilter who embroidered over flour sacks to piece together into a stunning quilt?


So stunning. So amazing. So inspiring. And we only saw part of her entire collection? Goodness.
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