I went on a trip to Tucson and my Mom and her friend Sue took us to Tubac. Tubac is an artisans community in the desert. It reminded me alot of a similar community that we visited a couple of years ago in Venezuela. These are some of the many textiles for sale.
Central American style story quilt
Rug Detail
I finally got around to hot gluing the spools for my spinning wheel. The ends were popping off which the previous owner warned me about, telling me that the woodstove dries out the wood on the spools and causes the glue to fail over time. It was a simple task, given that of course I have a glue gun, two in fact, one high temp and one low (hahaha still burns the crap out of your fingers). Once repaired wow the spinning wheel was working again. The tops being loose is a problem because they spin on the spool instead of remaining still when the tops are on tightly it allows the yarn to wind onto it while you are spinning. I have been watching some youtube videos of spinning and think I am doing okay! I had to wind some yarn from a broken spool onto an unbroken one to be able to glue it and noted that my yarn is not too stretchy a good thing and also that it wasn’t breaking when I was winding it, strongish but not yet great. I am pleased with my progress.
I wanted to post these images of the quilts that were hanging in the show yesterday.
Two springs ago, I drove over to Michelle’s apartment in Fayetteville and we walked to a quilt show at one of the elementary schools. Today we drove over, stopping first for lunch at King Davids. We split dolmades, eggplant fries and she got a pita pocket and I got a gyro and turkish coffee. After we ran into the LL Bean outlet because about 10 years ago I bought a windbreaker that is not waterproof and to be honest is sinfully ugly, I needed a real raincoat though, and got one. I also had to buy a new suitcase because the travel one I bought for myself was irresponsibly borrowed and left in another country by the person that borrowed it, leaving me only with an old one that is ripped. I also needed purse supplies so we stopped at the fabric store too.
butterfly quilt
Antique crazy quilt
double wedding ring quilt
antique log cabin
Four Seasons Quilt
This four seasons quilt was designed by my Mom, it was my Christmas gift from her.
