The Baltimore Museum of Art has granted me permission to show their photographs of the splendid Baltimore album quilt exhibit. Here’s the entrance to the textiles gallery, where they were shown. The quilts are “revisited” because it was the BMA’s major, traveling exhibit of Baltimore album quilts in the 1980s that first brought them to [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Permission granted—Baltimore album quilts
Posted in Baltimore quilts, art on July 26, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My palette
Posted in Recovery improvisation, beads, supplies on July 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here are the threads I’m working with on my improvisation. There have been others, already put away, but in the same colors. These include cotton in various weights, silk, rayon, rayon/silk, and wool.
It struck me yesterday as interesting. The only primary color I’m using is red. No yellow or blue. They are present in the [...]
Baltimore album quilts
Posted in Baltimore quilts, art, hand embroidery on July 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
In March I alerted you to the Baltimore album quilt exhibit that had just opened at the Baltimore Museum of Art. On July 1st, I went to the museum, and I’m waiting to hear from the Rights and Reproductions Coordinator whether or not I can show you images from that exhibit. Meanwhile, I do have [...]
MHS crazy quilt redux
Posted in art, crazy patchwork, hand embroidery on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MHS crazy quilt redux
Originally uploaded by jowynnjohns
Among the 113 photographs I took at the Maryland Historical Society, I found a better image of this wonderful quilt.
Maryland crazy quilts
Posted in art, crazy patchwork, hand embroidery on July 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Thursday I went to the Maryland Historical Society, having learned last week at the Baltimore Museum of Art that they had a Baltimore album quilt exhibit. I’d gone to the BMA to see their Baltimore album quilt show and that whetted my appetite to see more of these extraordinary works of art, first done [...]
Bizarre improv update
Posted in Recovery improvisation, Stitching, crazy patchwork, hand embroidery on July 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Still playing with this crazy patchwork, crazy something—just a little every evening. What I’m doing to create texture around the wrapped rings is very slow stitching. I just grab a thread and start, not knowing what I’m going to do until I’m doing it. No planning. No precision.
Here it is on its too-small frame, which [...]
Haori
Posted in Personal, family, gifts on July 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Not only did my daughter-in-law host me for the weekend and transport me, she also gave me this gift, a haori.
Never mind the socks, isn’t that lovely?
I want you to see how it is constructed, so I draped it over a table with the lining showing. The whole jacket is two layers of the print [...]
What I did over the Fourth of July weekend
Posted in Personal, family, recovery on July 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I left home without the charger and had a dead cell phone. So much for giving my new phone a workout! Lesson learned.
I left home to go to my son and daughter-in-law’s lake house in Bridgeport, West Virginia, a town of just under 8000 people. There they have a cottage bought around 1930 by Carolyn’s [...]
Cell phones and celebrations
Posted in Personal, Stitching, gifts on July 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On June 13th, grandson Josh (pole vaulter, orator) and his girlfriend Kate (pianist, musician) took me to buy a cell phone.
Now I have never owned a cell phone. When I was housebound, I sure didn’t need one. Ernie had one that he used for calling Charlestown for a driver to pick him up from wherever [...]
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