Really Last Minute, Honest
Five Years Hard Labor © 2006 Gwendolyn Magee, Jackson, MississippiGwen's work Fire and Spirit: Burnished Soul arrived yesterday. I finished the roll of large quilts. I realized that she has had a great influence on my life. It began years ago when I first saw the House and Garden sidebar on the Gee's Bend Quilts. I commented on it quite pithily for the QuiltArt List. Then I thought about the demographics of that list and sternly softened my comments.
Gwen jumped in and said clearly what I had been afraid to say. All the pithy sentences I had cut out of my post were in Gwen's post. Little did I know then that she was not only speaking her own mind but she was tacitly giving me permission to speak my own.
About a month ago I actually wrote out and owned what I have been doing for the last five or six years. I comment on society. I speak clearly about what I see. It is both freeing and frightening. I doubt I will ever go back to silence.
Thought you might like to know how my life goes all alone in this house. All the smaller quilts were packed by 9:30 yesterday. Gwen says that the fedex tracking says her work in on today's delivery truck. That makes thirteen more to pack. They are too wide to go even in the long duffel I snatched from Sam. I'm waiting for Fire and Spirit to complete the roll.
I normally ship the Left Turn Lane in sono-tube - concrete forms of heavy cardboard for pouring round columns. I'm going to have to pay oversize. I can't take the risk of folding other people's beautiful work. Kit Vincent's Lancaster Series - Harvest is the longest.
So when Gwen's quilt arrives I'll finish rolling. Won't know until then whether the 10" diameter tube I have is big enough or if I have to take the truck to town and buy a 12" tube. Either way I have to cut wooden ends for the tubes. I went into Tucson to get a 12" tube. Wouldn't you know! The roll was too big for the 12" and it was rather small for the 14" tube on hand. I have used up the last of my bubble pack. Gwen, I stole your airbags to cushion the top of the roll in the tube. A least the 14" tube on hand already had ends.
A friend brought me the newspaper article. Full page with four more images: Letter From Home, Danza Serpiente, Choices I: Wind or Coal, and Surroundings 1850-3. Each of you will get your copy for your portfolio. The papers are laying on the dyeboard.
Yesterday was a fairly relaxed day. That's good. I needed the break.
Gwen jumped in and said clearly what I had been afraid to say. All the pithy sentences I had cut out of my post were in Gwen's post. Little did I know then that she was not only speaking her own mind but she was tacitly giving me permission to speak my own.
About a month ago I actually wrote out and owned what I have been doing for the last five or six years. I comment on society. I speak clearly about what I see. It is both freeing and frightening. I doubt I will ever go back to silence.
Thought you might like to know how my life goes all alone in this house. All the smaller quilts were packed by 9:30 yesterday. Gwen says that the fedex tracking says her work in on today's delivery truck. That makes thirteen more to pack. They are too wide to go even in the long duffel I snatched from Sam. I'm waiting for Fire and Spirit to complete the roll.
I normally ship the Left Turn Lane in sono-tube - concrete forms of heavy cardboard for pouring round columns. I'm going to have to pay oversize. I can't take the risk of folding other people's beautiful work. Kit Vincent's Lancaster Series - Harvest is the longest.
So when Gwen's quilt arrives I'll finish rolling. Won't know until then whether the 10" diameter tube I have is big enough or if I have to take the truck to town and buy a 12" tube. Either way I have to cut wooden ends for the tubes. I went into Tucson to get a 12" tube. Wouldn't you know! The roll was too big for the 12" and it was rather small for the 14" tube on hand. I have used up the last of my bubble pack. Gwen, I stole your airbags to cushion the top of the roll in the tube. A least the 14" tube on hand already had ends.
A friend brought me the newspaper article. Full page with four more images: Letter From Home, Danza Serpiente, Choices I: Wind or Coal, and Surroundings 1850-3. Each of you will get your copy for your portfolio. The papers are laying on the dyeboard.
Yesterday was a fairly relaxed day. That's good. I needed the break.
1 Comments:
Thelma,
Sing the song loudly and I will always join in the chorus, and perhaps lead with a verse or two of my own!
Rebecca
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