Sally Ride Science

  SATs FEB 8 & 15, 10A-1P, Home Ec Workshop , Iowa City "Wonky" Double Cross Learn to make this wonderful quilt pattern by Pam Rocco. Work toward a finished 50" x 50" quilt in this 6-hr class, or take the top home and make three more to construct a quilt fit for a QUEEN! Perfect gift for a bun in the oven or for someone you love bunches! Whimsical and loose: recovering perfectionists welcome

 On-board the Southwest Chief (Amtrak)  El Santuario de Chimayo, Chimayo, New Mexico  Chimayo with faralitos  Hwy 84 north of Abiquiu, New Mexico  13-mile Forest Service road to monastery  Rio Chama  Christ in the Desert monastery  bush at monastery  stations of the cross at monastery  Los Ojos, New Mexico  Hwy 84 north of Abiquiu, New Mexico  Hwy 84 north of Abiquiu, New Mexico  Just north of Bode's , Abiquiu, New Mexico  courtyard outside our room at the Abiquiu Inn  Georgia O'Keefe home and studio, Abiquiu, New Mexico  Shiprock Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico  Holy Trinity Parish, Arroyo Seco, New Mexico  Holy Trinity Parish, Arroyo Seco, New Mexico  Bridge over the Rio Grande, near Taos, New Mexico Abiquiu, New Mexico

My September 2012 trip to Shanghai, began in this bookstore in Iowa City, Iowa...   ...where I bought an exhibit catalog containing this image: "Sea of Japan in Winter"  (1983) It is a quilt by Shizuko Kuroha, which appears to made largely of indigo fabrics from Japan.  This quilt inspired me to to make my own version of this pattern (Arabic Lattice block), which I would title "Portmanteau." "Portmanteau" (2011) "Portmanteau" would travel to China in the early part of 2012 as part of an exhibit "The Sum of Many Parts," and I followed thereafter in September.  I attended the opening of the exhibit at Shanghai Museum of Textile and Costume, and was fortunate to meet Naomi McCallus (see photo below).  She commented on my fabric choices for "Portmanteau" and suggested that I would probably like a somewhat hard-to-find fabric that is unique to China and no longer made, simply called "lao bu" (old fabric).  It is hand-dye...