Friday Feet 04-27-18

A feast for anyone with a shoe fetish!  But waaaay too much all at once.  If I saw any of these actually being worn I would be so shocked I wouldn't be able to take a picture. 

Check it out:  http://www.smartlystuff.com/index.php/2018/04/27/craziest-shoes-see-believe/

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"Bird Quilts from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection" 04-27-18

I thought I had posted the quilts that are exhibit at Back Porch Fabrics,but I cannot find them on my blog.  It is time to drive up to take the quilts down and bring them home.  So, here are all the quilts that are hanging at Back Porch through Sunday.  Some shots show the layout and then there images of individual quilts.
There is a limit of 200 characters for the labels, so I can't put all the artists' names in.   

On the left: "Goose in the Pond" Ruth B. McDowell  2015

Top to bottom on right: "Funky Chicken"  Kristen Shields,

"Nite Song"  Nanette Fleischman 2009,

"Taking a Break"  Lynn Welsch 2012.

"Cross the Road"  Karen Cunagin  2011

Bottom:  "Early Birds"  Ruth Powers 2006

Left to right across the top:  "Little Wren"  Sue de Vanny 2017,

"Swallow"  Els Vereycken  2013

"The Sentinel"  Judy Warren Tippets  2013

"City Bird at Yerba Buena Gardens"  Jean Renli Jurgenson 2013

Top:  "Crow" Jill Le Croissette  2013

Bottom:  "Owl"  Kathy Nida 2015

Left: "Flowers Come in Stony Places"  Karen Franzen  2012

Top Right:  "Hidden Treasures"  David Taylor  2011

Bottom Right:  "Western Grebe"  Del Thomas 1997

"A Rash of Flamingoes"  Ruth B. McDowell  2000

Left Top: "Duck Weeding"  Ruth B. McDowell 2012

Left Bottom: "Chickens in the Poppy Patch"  Ruth B. McDowell  2012

Right Top to Bottom: "Raven"  Diane Wright  2015 

"Tree Top Parrots of the Palisades"  Sherry Kleinman  2009

"Yellow Headed Blackbird"  Ruth Powers  2009 

            

Left to Right Across the top:

"Blue Wren"  Helen Godden 2017

"Walk the Line"  Doria Ann Goocher  2009

"Bowerbird 1"  Judith Roderick  2013

"Tillamook Rooster"  Terry Grant  2009

"Steller's Jay"  Terry Grant  2011

Bottom: "Watermelon Chickens"  Ruth B. McDowell  2009

Left vertical Top to Bottom:

"Night Owl"  Judith Roderick  2011

"Two Geese"  Els Vereycken  2011

"Song Birds Omen #2"  Nelda McComb  2013

"A Little Birdy Told Me"  Terri Stegmiller  2011

Right vertical Top to Bottom:  

"Watching" Terri Stegmiller  2011

"In the Thicket" Sonia Grasvik  2012

"From Above - Crows"  K. Velis Turan  2007

"Another Collector"  Diane Wright  2012

"An Exaltation of Larks"  Mary Quinn  2010

"Goldfinches"  Ruth B. McDowell   2017

"Raven at the Crater"  Kathleen McCabe  2017

"Crowsline"  June Underwood  2003

Crowsline"  June Underwood  2003, "Goldfinches"  Ruth B. McDowell  2017,

"Raven at the Crater"  Kathleen McCabe  2017

Left:  "He Caught Her Eye"  Ruth B. McDowell  2014

Center: "Skimmers"   Martha Wolfe  2014, "Essence of India"  Carolyn Higgs  2016, 

"Getting My Ducks in a Row"   Pamela Allen  2005

Right:  "Oystercatchers"  Del Thomas  1996,  "Terns"  Pamela Allen  2016

"He Caught Her Eye"  Ruth B. McDowell  2014

"Terns"  Pamela Allen  2016

"Oystercatchers"  Del Thomas  1996

"Goose in the Pond"  Ruth B. McDowell   2015

"Hummingbird"   Lenore Crawford  2017

"Getting My Ducks in a Row"  Pamela Allen  2011

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Wordless Wednesday 04-25-18

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Last SQG Newsletter done 04-24-18

I have done my last newsletter for Surfside Quilters Guild and sent it to be proof read.  I am already missing it!  Nothing on my May calendar for the creation or publishing of the newsletter - looks rather blank!   But I am hoping to go on a road trip to visit friends in the Pacific Northwest - Washington and Oregon.  So, that will fill up that space.  

This weekend I will drive up to Pacific Grove to pick up the Bird quilts that have been hanging at Back Porch Fabrics.  KoKo will stay with Dee Jacobs where he is always happy.  My sincere and deepest appreciation to Dee! 

Have you looked at Luanna Rubin's pictures from the Tokyo Quilt Festival?  There are some truly amazing quilts.  Check it out at: 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/luanarubin/sets/72157692101929794

Click on the quilt image for further info, not available for all.  The Little Women quilts are a special exhibit.

You might also enjoy looking at some of the quilts in the collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.:

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-national-quilt-museum

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A resting day 04-22-18

Yesterday KoKo and I went to a meeting with the lady who is taking over the Surfside Quilters Guild newsletter and then on to San Diego for the opening of the new exhibits.  KoKo was pretty good, but complained with loud barks when I left him alone in his carrier in the museum office for very long.  It wasn't a successful excursion.  I had dinner with Beth Smith, the director of the museum and then drove home in the dark, which I don't do so well at my advanced age.  We arrived home about 11pm and were soon in bed.  And we spent today recovering!  Of course, we did the two obligatory 1/2 hour walks, morning and evening and I worked on the newsletter - my very last one.  I have discovered that when I have a full day with two long drives I need to set aside the next day to recover.  Today was that day.  

It was 80F today and all the flowers are blooming their very best .  

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