Great article in the Christian Science Monitor about quilting and some considered responses to the whole Wall Street Journal Debacle. I’ll forgive the Houston curator for saying that when people think about quilts they think about Quakers (he probably meant Amish) because the rest was fabulous. Consider these two quotes:

Curators like Mr. Marzio [director of the Gees’ Bend exhibit when it was in Houston] contend that the balance between traditional and innovative in quilting isn’t an either/or issue: Innovation is the tradition.

and this one:

Janet Koplos, senior editor of Art in America, agrees: “To attack quilts because they’re cheaper to ship – or because people like them – seems wildly off the point,” she wrote in an e-mail interview. “The proof of whether something should be shown in a museum is whether it rewards attention, and quilts are as interesting as other art forms.”

Looking for gift ideas? Found this link on someone else’s site, and smiled to see someone I’d helped with a computer on the list.

Being sort of inbetween projects – still sewing small bits of stuff together for the pink and green quilt, finished with the coat of arms (except perhaps some more quilting) and scrambling for a raffle quilt idea led me to sort through my stash. Good idea, but now the rest of my sewing room is a disaster. I’m in need of quilt storage too. Mainly though, a shovel of some sort or an industrial vacuum cleaner would do good.

A moment to remember that it’s World AIDS Day. I’ll remember as I did last year.