Embroidery ~ a la ROSE !

Prairie Quilts in Hennessey OK....

A sweat-shirt Jacket !!

Now... I travelled thru Dover, OK, Kingfisher...  and just up the street from Prairie Quilt.... the sights I saw......

A real.... live...  ~ honkey tonk juke-joint

Now u know... I intend to get back Home to OKC before dark.......

Now.... who woulda-thought about

where these Infamous Oklahoma Oil wells were really made, stored and sold.....  THIS WAS IT @ Hennessey OK

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By the Way.... The Tree Lined little vineyard

on the photo represents the 168 victims slain in the Murrah Federal building bombing of 9:02am on April 19 = = 2005 (or was it a different year????).    The names are also engraved on bricks in a circular walkway with small benches to ponder and pray for the family.   Donald Burns..... I ran into Barb a few days ago.   Larry Turner, the two little boys... so many.  Quite a memorial...

Now, for a little beauty on my quilt journey !  Some Pink & Green

I started this in about August-September... Finished here in October 2009!

The most beautiful of fall days.....OESC

Starting my day with Yolanda Adams.... Mountain High & Valley Low!!!

Such are the Meditations of my heart as I quilt.......

Extremes, highs and lows, achievements and setbacks.....   President Obama -- reaching a zenith!  Monumental proportions..... and yet the ever present backdrop of American slavery and racism.

Wondering What My Quilt would look like.....

From 1882 - 1998, 4743 murders by lynching occurred in the US. . . 3446 were African-American (72.7%)

Strange Fruit : A Poem . . . .

Barack Obama african print fabric with an oval shape picture of Barack Obama, with the following items delicately decorating a white background with brown and tan design: Yes We Can, 44th President of the United States and American Flag on it .

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Dr. Carole Mazloomi.... surprise phone call (Good Lord!).....   after stress and strains... her heart was big enuf  to include my humble quilt in her upcoming book.

I never would have thought.... but I still hoped against hope.    She has been so gracious in dealing with me !!!!


When the quilt was returned from Ohio as a "No Go". . . .  I have not even opened the box... its been just sitting full of initial disappointment within myself....

Again, I am either no worth a dime..... or worth more than I think of myself as a quilter and artist...

Carole's words are still running thru my mind...... today....

Hey-Hey-Hey... I'm into new stuff in the world of internet quiltin!

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My Quilt Post ~ ~ Blogger's Quilt Festival (Fall) 2009

I am participating in the Blogger's Quilt Festival 2009 which is hosted by Amy from Park City Girl.

This is a second remake of a favorite, colorful quilt.... My technique was freelance. . . to the point that the focal fabric pictured three generations of women.  My own granddaughter was born a year ago last August!   I simply built colors in a medallion fashion.... 

There are days when I just want to test things out, to piece a few scraps in no particular sequence.... So I had paper peiced the four hearts in the corner.   The yellow and green hour-glass blocks were odd-sized leftovers.... but as the Lord would have it  -- just perfect in the quilt.

Then you;ll see I zig-zagged a few lines to break the mold.   It is suggested that my slave ancestors believed that bad spirits travel in a straight line.... HENCE, a few crooked edges were needed.

The black and gold geese are zagged... the red black and green star is a unique heritage symbol of black power from the sixties generation.   and the Ohio Star carries Little Africa in the middle point!

So, it ends up my masterpiece, my pride and joy.   The first quilt that I made in this fashion had two black women with arms raised towards the sky....  I have my best girlfriend (we both became pregnant to our now thirty years old daughters of today.... how time flies!)   This girlfriend visited on a whim, and yep -- she asked and she would be the only person in the world I'd give my quilt to.   Thus, I wanted to this one as a remake!  (mind u -- I 'm hopin I have only one best friend in the world... so I can keep this one!)

Luv- peace and solitude to all !

CLICK HERE:     http://parkcitygirl.blogspot.com/2009/10/quilt-festival-fall-2009.html

Luvin' My life...... Oct 16-2009!

Color me happy.....

Handmade Gifts of Repentance...

I messed up ROYALLY....   I've gotten much too oooooo oooo old to make excuses.  I gain a greater understanding of myself.   And being my own - biggest fan.... I do what I can... And I realize what I cannot or will not do at the PRESENT TIME !

So it has been.... in my desire and repeatedly telling myself that I would make a DOTEE DOLL.... I enjoyed the first one I made.... but my hands and heart have never moved to sew the next PROMISED DOLL!  

So, it is that because I truly want to share and honor my committment to a woman-friend . . . .  I am sending these hand-sewn gifts.

To my postcard swap friend!