created at ArtWalk!

At the June 10 ArtWalk event announced earlier this week, visitors enjoyed playing “Make a Quilt” and entering in the drawing to WIN YOUR QUILT! It was a hit. So much so, that we are now planning to do it again later this summer on the front sidewalk outside West Seattle Grounds coffee shop. In the meantime, thought you’d enjoy some glimpses of the creativity from Thursday night!

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the winning design!

Some lovely non-winners below

This is how the “Make a Quilt” game works:

Public:  Who can play? Everyone!

Instructions

1. Ensure hands are clean, with wipes provided.

2. Browse through the quilt squares, choose 15 that you like.  Put the other ones into a neat pile to the side.

3. Choose your layout: horizontal or vertical.

(“Frankenstein” is vertical; “Respect wall-hanging” is horizontal)

4. Lay out your quilt squares in lines according to the blue taped areas on the table. It will create a design that is 3 squares x 5 squares (vertical), or 5 squares x 3 squares (horizontal).

5. Straighten it all up.

6. Take a photo with your cell phone.

Congratulations! You are now a quilt designer and that is your first e-quilt!

To win a real quilt made out of your design, join the WIN YOUR QUILT drawing!

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day 21: stamina, stamina, stamina then hope

Hello again!  Here are a couple of good thoughts for your Thursday, from rock legend and wise woman, Patti Smith*:

– Stamina is required in the maintaining of hope.

– The important thing is to keep living because only by living can you see what happens next.

Hang in there!

And fyi: here are some more of the premium cotton fabrics available for the face masks I’m sewing for people, upon request ($5 each or $0.00 for medical personnel).  Pick-up at my house in West Seattle. Mail orders upon request, with prepayment and a self-addressed stamped envelope.

 

*Patti Smith, review of Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage, New York Times, 8/10/14.  Image above by New York artist Yuko Shimizu, printed with the original review. This picture–and the concept of a person who is colorless–seem prescient in this time when losing your sense of smell might mean you are very sick… but not feeling ill.

And here is a pic of the great musician and poet today, such an amazing woman. Thanks for keeping your beautiful natural look, Patti Smith!

Stamina (Etymology: Latin pl. of STAMEN. The senses arise partly from sense ‘warp (of cloth)’, partly from application of pl. to the threads spun by the Fates.)

1. pl. The original or essential elements or form of something, esp. an organism; rudiments.
2.  pl. The innate strength or vitality of a person’s constitution, formerly supposed to govern or affect length of life.
3. sing. or (orig.) pl. The ability to endure esp. physical strain or fatigue; capacity for resistance or endurance; staying power; perseverance.

from  The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5^th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), vol. 2, p. 2997.