Friday Food 08-27-21

One of the best things about computers, to me anyway, is having tens of thousands of pictures I can scroll through and remember people, places, events, animals, flowers - just everything.  I just spent an hour looking for pictures of food for this post and enjoyed images of trips I have taken, quilts galore, Surfside Quilters Guild members and meetings  And that was only two years worth!  I did think I took more food pictures than I can find now, but settled on these three, all from ten years ago in 2011 in widely separated locations. . 

I enjoy eating fish, but don't cook it much at home because I don't BBQ and my oven hasn't worked for years.  So, I eat fish when I eat out.  This is one of my favorite meals - Salmon, broccoli, baked potato (or rice).  Makes me hungry just thinking about it!   This was in Long Beach, CA.. 

Another favorite is fish tacos  I especially like shrimp which are very good at  Chronic Tacos, but these two are from a food truck that used to serve at lunch time in Brea, CA.  I prefer corn tortillas, but they only served flour. 

And, of course, sushi is high on my list of favorites.  This yummy roll was at a tiny sushi place near Beaverton, Oregon.   

I may have to go out for sushi tomorrow night., probably to my favorite neighborhood spot "Fish in a Bottle" .  Since the pandemic is so threatening I may have to do takeout.  But it will be the best.

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Wordless Wednesday 08-25-21

            

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Sunday again and here is another quilt from TCQC.   This is one of twelve that I purchased in the last century.  Doesn't that sound odd?  I started collecting contemporary quilts (now called art quilts) in 1985 but didn't have a lot of extra money and then life got in the way for about a decade.  So, all but twelve quilts have been added since 2000.  This piece is one of the very early additions and I am still glad I bought it and enjoy having it hanging sometimes.

                          

"Absolutes"  Cynthia Corbin  1994  35"W x 56"L

Machine pieced and quilted.  Cotton fabric, thread, batting.

www.CynthiaCorbin.com

 

I met Cynthia Corbin at Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar.  We were in a couple Ruth McDowell classes together in the early 1990s.  I admired her work then and still do today, but have never added another of her quilts to the Collection. I believe this was started in one of Ruth's Symmetry classes and the "border" was added after Cynthia was home in her studio.  I love the addition of brown in the border and those swirling "ribbons" pop out the center panel and add a lot of motion to the composition.  Cynthia lives in the Seattle area.

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A KoKo & Froggy Saga 08-21-21

Oh, dear!  KoKo has ripped open Froggy's back, so it is time for a new back.  KoKo has to be right there to keep track of his Froggy and cannot wait to have him back again.   It has been just a year and 20 days since Froggy's last major back replacement.  This time I used a heavier fabric I found in one of my scrap boxes - maybe it is Trigger - perhaps it will last longer. 

KoKo stands as tall as he can, but cannot quite reach the wounded Froggy. 

Froggy peers back at his tormentor.  

Removing the torn back and some of the stuffing.  KoKo supervising. 

Back exposed and some stitches to hold it together. 

The waiting is too much, KoKo has to hold on to his friend. 

"Are you almost done?"   I NEED him. 

Some final stitches.

Froggy has survived his surgery and has a fine, smooth green back.  How long will it take KoKo to tear him up again?  And how many successful surgeries are them in his future?

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A Quilt Exhibit 08-20-21

Last week when I met friends from SDiego at the Newport Beach Library to see a small quilt exhibit I took pictures of every quilt.  But somehow missed a few of the labels.  So, if you know the unnamed artists please let me know so I can update this blog. 

The artists, mainly from the Los Angeles/Orange County area, are members of the group "Quilts on the Wall".   The quilts are 36"L x 24"W using black & white and one other color.

                                         

                                "Purple Mountains Majesty"  Andrea Bacal 2020 

"Macaroni Meeting"  Nelda McComb 2020

"Fractured Forest"  Ann Turley 2020

"Focus"   Carol Nilson  2020

"High Score"  Janet Tranbarger  2020

"My Lexus"  Karen Markley  2020

DETAIL

And an even closer detail.  Clever!

"2020"  Charlene Tuch 2020

"No Division"  Jennifer Beatty 2020

"Hope"  Janice Willis 2020

"No Hugs, No KIsses"  Karen Markley  2020

"Wish I May, Wish I Might"  Judy Crotts 2020

'I Miss Walter Cronkite"  Karen Guthrie  2020

"Hang in There"   Sally Freeberg  2020

 DETAIL.

"Flowers" Julie Schlueter  2020

"French Zebrinas in Victoria's Garden"  Stephania Bommarito  2020

(Wonderful lace in this piece. Del)

"Bright Times in the Humdrum"  Sharon Oblinger  2020

(This piece is not a rectangle, but wonky. Del) 

(Missed the label on this one.  Please identify)

"Floral Rhapsody"  Marilyn Gourley  2020

"Ripe Berries" Sharon Jaeger  2020

"Topography"  Janet Farmer  2020

"Fantastic Forest"  Bunny Mauldin  2020

"Hygieia"   Tara Ritacco  2020

(Don't know why I cannot edit this picture.  This is the best I can do.)

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Wordless Wednesday 08-18-21

 

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Quilt from TCQC - Sonia Grasvik 08-15-21

This is a repeat of a post from 2012 after I added this piece from the SAQA online auction in October 2012.  

This lovely little quilt from Sonia Grasvik is so evocative of  flocks of little birds in winter - even in SCalifornia.  They are so much more visible when the branches are bare - I watch them in the rose bushes outside my kitchen window. 

 

"In the Thicket"  Sonia Grasvik - Seattle, WA 2012  11.75" x 11.75"
 Hand dyed and commercial cottons, silk thread, fabric ink pens.
Machine pieced, FMQ.
Sonia wrote to tell me that all of the fabric in this piece is commercial cotton.
 

 
The bird and the briers are inked on the background and then the outline is sewn in black thread.  Or maybe the outline was sewn and then inked to fill in the black silhouettes.  The hand dyed background presents a hazy, damp, cold winter day.
Sonia  advises that the inking was done first and then outlined with YLI silk thread.

 
The tiny stripes are folds - like piping - and the background looks like those damp leaves and twigs that cover the wintry ground.
 

 
A nice matching label with all the necessary information.

I added the measurements in the upper corner because I need to know the exact size for when it is shown in a gallery or exhibit.  This is one of the few that are not 12" square.  
 

 
Faced rather than bound, Sonia has rounded the inside corners of the facing to make it lay flat and easier to sew.   I love having this 12x12 gem in TCQC. 

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