Post coming soon.
My Summer so far
Not much sewing or quilting going on around here this summer.
I have spent most of my time in the kitchen.
Summer Bounty at my local farmers market
Each week I give myself $25 bucks to blow spend at my local farmer's market. So far this summer I have made about 10 quarts of pickles. Lots salsa and lots of green smoothies. It's a fun personal challenge to see how much $25 can buy. I go twice a week. Nothing tastes better than a fresh field grown tomato.
Or sippin' smoothies in my porch on my Easy Street Quilt
Flooded boardwalk after 2 months of almost solid rain
Some Gave All
It fluttered in the breeze;
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform,
So young, so tall, so proud;
With hair cut square and eyes alert,
He’d stand out in any crowd.
I thought… how many men like him
Had fallen through the years?
How many died on foreign soil?
How many mothers’ tears?
How many pilots’ planes shot down
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers’ graves
No, Freedom is not Free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still;
I listened to the bugler play,
And felt a sudden chill;
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant “Amen”
When a flag had draped a coffin
Of a brother or a friend;
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea,
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No. Freedom is not Free!
(By Kelly Strong)
Vintage Sewing Machine Eye Candy
"No pictures are allowed" I was told.
I didn't know.
Oops!!
What a waste of sewing machines. This was in New York City when I was there last summer. So far I have been to three cities where these stores have hundreds of machines lining the walls.
There is probably one for each Stashbuster Member. If we could only have saved them.
That's my husband under a sign that bears his name. BTW, we don't own a shoe store. LOL
The Quilted floor, Apollo and an Orange Crush Quilt
Hi All - Greetings from the UK
I wanted to share with you my daughters entry floor. And Apollo!
She lives in a house that is 145 years old in England.
This floor reminds me of my Orange Crush quilt that I made from a Bonnie Hunter mystery a few years back.
Ohhhh it is so very cold on the feet. OF course the day that I arrived the high temperature was 32 degrees and snowing. I had to do some research on these types of floors and it is interesting. They are called Minton tiles.
My Orange Crush Top
Minton's Ltd, was a major ceramics manufacturing company, originated with Thomas Minton (1765-1836) the founder of "Thomas Minton and Sons", who established his pottery factory in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, in 1793, producing earthenware and from 1798 bone china.
(source: wikipedia)
Victorian era geometric floor tiles are based on the patterns found in medieval churches and cathedrals (think Westminster Abbey). Some have put this influence down to the rising middle classes of the Industrial Revolution attempting to add 'class' to their houses by imitating the houses of the aristocracy that only master-craftsmen were able to create.
During the Victorian era, it was common to tightly pack tiles together without any grout lines. This was related to the ongoing development and availability of cement. Because of the lack of grout lines, it was beneficial to a tiled floor's stability for the tiles to interlock and hold each other in place.
Later tile patterns from the Art Deco period show tiles arranged with differing shades to create an isometric projection on the floor.
The neat thing about these tiles was that the homeowner got to design or personalize their own floor or pick out a pre-fabed one. Look at this assortment of centers.
They are also used in many government buildings in the United States in Washington DC
source MAW & company
Out and about in Suffolk, England
Crooked Houses in Lavenham
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