AMANDA'S BASKETS: QUILTERS TAKE MANHATTAN, PART TWO

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

QUILTERS TAKE MANHATTAN, PART TWO

One thing that I didn't explain was who was sponsoring the Quilters Take Manhattan Event. Sorry about that. The Quilt Alliance which was founded in 1993 sponsored QTM. What is Quilt Alliance you ask? It's a non-profit organization which supports and develops projects to document, preserve and share the history of quilts and quiltmakers.

Remember those labels that your guilds want you to put on the back of your quilts? Well, it's a way to keep track of who made it, when it was made, why and any other details. Quilts last a long time. Most well past the life of the quiltmaker so it's really nice to know who actually made the quilts and when.

Another project is to interview quiltmakers on video. There is a long form interview and a short form. Save Our Stories is archived at the Library of Congress.

The Emcee for the program was Jodie Davis, the author of 35 quilting books as well as on air personality with Quilt It and other quilting programs.

The featured speaker was the very much in demand Ricky Tims, co-host of The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson. He is also a pianist, conductor composer and arranger, by the way. The main theme of his presentation was to discover who you are as a creative person and let the art find you. Very inspirational...

He mugged for me afterwards...

Victoria Findlay Wolfe talked about how fifteen minutes of play boosts your creativity. She was funny talking about double knit blankets her grandma sewed to keep everyone warm in Minnesota. She loves playing with scraps...no real planning, just pulling them out and making blocks.

Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts was interviewed by Meg Cox for the long form of the Save Our Stories. And several ladies from a New York City Parks Quilt Group shared their stories using the short form.

Well, known quilter Yvonne Porcella had a trunk show and Mary Koval shared antique quilts. What do you think? Was it worth it? It sure was!!!

I leave you with a few more of the small quilts...

We were supposed to get rain beginning this afternoon. The humidity is very high and the storms are all around us, but we haven't had a drop of rain yet. Hope it gets here soon...

Thanks for visiting...
Talk to you tomorrow...

CRAFTING IDEAS

I am always looking for a small piece of paper to write down something which will later be disposed of. I decided to use some of the scrap paper of which I have a ton. I mostly use the paper for glueing projects. I decided to cut the paper into a small size. (Six pieces from a piece of copy paper.). But just having them sitting on my desk would get messy without a container. So, using a cardboard box, I cut it down to size and using a hot glue gun I glued the ends together. Using a picture from a magazine cut into pieces and stick craft glue, I glued the pieces to the box inside and out. I also used some decorative tape for the outside edges. And to finish the top corners which were not covered, I used straight pins with colorful tops. Looks nice and works well.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

So in looking over your habits what did you find? Some popular good habits folks have are: Meditation, exercise, journal writing, flossing, reading and walking up early. Some not so great habits included smoking, saying yes, swearing, tolerating folks, not sleeping enough, always complaining and constantly making excuses. Do you have more good habits or more bad habits? Is it time to change? If so, start with the easiest bad habit to change, not the hardest. This will give the best chance of success. Decide on the best way for you to change your habit. Worry too much? Set a time to worry and then stop. You may have to stop yourself several times at the beginning but keep it up and you will worry less. Or, alternatively, write the worry down as well as options to stop the problem. Just figure out which way to stop is best for you.