Here are some links to quilts I’ve been looking at lately. These links were posted by members of the Quiltart mailing list.

http://www.lostquilt.com/StolenLives.html
http://artquilts.net/laura/untitled.html
http://www.turtlemoon.com/trax2/liberty5.jpg (photos down the page a ways)
http://nzquilter.org.nz/
debs-quilty-design-wall
http://www.homestead.com/joanie/beachglass.html
http://www.applewoodfarmquilts.com
http://www.DoughtyDesigns.com/hawks&doves.html
http://mbgoodman.tripod.com/911/2oct_13.html
http://home.nc.rr.com/beatgold/quilts/Fire2&3.jpg

Quiet and nice Sunday. Started off with the NYTimes ritual reading. Ron had warned me that the magazine was going to be grim, but it went way beyond that in oh so many ways. Doesn’t give me much hope for the world when a grandmother fleeing Kabul into Pakistan would hold her infant grandson up to the Taliban and urge them to take the child rather than beating and possibly killing her grown son. Her comment was that her son was the only person who could work on behalf of the family. I guess I understand the survival thinking there but barely.

That’s really only the tip of the iceberg. If you want to see more, you can find it at the NYTimes site.

Then we visited with my parents for awhile. Mom is busy making christmas stockings for a guild project in December.

Came home and made gingersnaps, a double batch so I can share at work, especially with Kenn (OS Kenn as we call him) the Asst manager who is making my schedule more bearable – thank you very much. They came out pretty good, even that first sheet which always comes out a little darker than the rest. Did the dishes, cleaned the frig. Made coffee to go with the cookies! Very important.

Now I’ve been helping Ron with some photos he’s working on for someone else. Meanwhile, I’ve been surfing a bit and found a cool blog

totally amazing — thanks to the dude who made this possible. Want to find out more?

I just had to try posting to my blog from AIM – who’d a thunk something like that would work, eh?

Almost anything you do will seem insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. – Gandhi

Doesn’t that seem like great guidance in so many aspects of life? I’m thinking about using that in an appeal for volunteers for our quilt show NYQuilts! – yes, you might only be sitting at a table taking tickets for a couple hours but it’s so important to the whole show. Even more so, it’s so important to the people who organize the show to know that the show is important enough to you to give up some of your time for as well.

So even if you can only do a little bit of an apparently unimportant job, DO sign up to do it. Ask what needs to be done, whether for your favorite cause, your local school, a local charity, your community. No one is asking for a lifetime commitment — only that you do a little bit of the whole. If you can do that little bit on a regular basis – GREAT. If not it’s still a little bit that got done, and got done by you.

Thanks.