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Posted on September 7, 2005 by Mary Beth Frezon

Live!

Go here:

ArtDoingGood

and see the wonderful artwork that was donated by members of the QuiltArt mailing list. All proceeds benefit the American Red Cross for the Katrina efforts.

Many thanks to the instigator Laura Cater-Woods and the other workers, June Underwood, Cathy Arnett and Carol Myers. For some of us in this project, the work is mostly done (that would be me and June although more will be coming) and for others the work is only beginning (Cathy and Carol) — but the Gulf disaster is overwhelming and ongoing.

Do what you can, in whatever way you can.

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Posted on September 7, 2005 by Mary Beth Frezon

OK, I don’t even really know that this is 100% fact although I have some faith in macnn.com, where I found this:

FEMA relief services Windows-only
Hurricane survivors using Mac and Linux computers have been unable to use Federal disaster relief claim services online, reports Macworld UK. The service, created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), only works with Windows and Internet Explorer 6. It is unclear if there is a reason the FEMA site blocks non-Internet Explorer browsers. Some Mac users have managed to gain access to the site using Opera — which can identify itself as Internet Explorer 6 — without problems. Ars Technica claims many relief workers have been forced to spend precious aid money on Windows OS licenses as they set up terminals to help hurricane victims initiate the claims process. The controversy is the latest in an ongoing struggle with FEMA, which has been criticized for not doing enough following the disaster

Yeah, that about sums it up for me. Total losers. We need to realize that WE’RE the ones in charge here and take back the power, and subsequently, the money.

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Posted on August 31, 2005 by Mary Beth Frezon

30 August 2005

First off, it’s hard not to enjoy a day that starts with this:

who needs a sporty red convertible? I’m thinking that the right nickname might be all you need to get through life. Especially if you’ve never had one before.

And then there’s this, the first half of the new quilt I’m working on. Yes, it’s actually hanging horizontally, but this is the orientation that it will have in the quilt.

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Happy Birthday 2005!

Posted on August 30, 2005 by Mary Beth Frezon

Swifter! Higher! Stronger!

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All kinds of stuff in progress

Posted on August 28, 2005 by Mary Beth Frezon

I spent part of yesterday and today making stuff with yeast. I spent another part of the days taking care of cats, in particular Gus. I spent another part of the days making my head hurt over PHP/mySQL stuff on artsroundup.com. I spent the last part of my days working on the new quilt top. It’s almost 1/4 pieced. Not quite. I realized that I have an extra column of pieces laid out for it and I’m not sure if I should stick with it or ask for forgiveness from the show organizer who set the size requirements. C’mon. Less than an inch and a half. Who’ll know?

yeah yeah yeah. Somedays are just like that. Tomorrow it’s supposed to rain and then Katrina will be smoooshed upstream to rain down on us some more. We need the rain , but no one needs a hurricane. I suppose it’s all in the turn of days, the turn of the seasons. That slice of lemon half moon I saw hanging low in the sky the other night. The comfort of a blanket in late August.

I am drawn to sewing all these small squares together and can’t wait to see each additional row as it joins. This is really the exciting part of the process to me – to see the ragged irregular collection of squares on my foam board move to the sewing machine and become regular again. Coherent and strong and bigger. And I like it!

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