If you want to see how fabulous my mom’s purple clematis is doing – go here. I can tell you that even her white double clematis is doing beautifully. Only goes to prove that whole “she could grow tin cans” thing I heard about her….

May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness,
May all be free from sorrow and the causes of sorrow;
May all beings never be separated from the sacred happiness, which is sorrowless.

What a lovely sentiment. Thanks to Brewed Fresh Daily for bringing it to my attention.

For those of you who wonder about this, and because I wonder about this too sometimes, here’s the first post I could find on the “red sky red sky” quilt. So – it all started sometime in late October. I do sort of remember going to part of a work day at East Side and cutting many many strips. And that it was about the time I had my disastrous encounter with the “variable lens” glasses. ick. But look, it all came to a good end — bifocals and this wonderful quilt. All good.

addendum:
And because I do keep records in a paper journal as well, I went to note there the completion of quilting. There was not (me bad) a note of the date of the first notes on this quilt. However it was sandwiched between some others. In front of it the blue and yellow quilt that is next up to be quilted, called “Count to Fifty.” The one directly after it, the quilt mentioned below, “Life’s Memories.” I guess it was a pretty productive autumn in 2003. Except that there’s a follow up idea to Count to Fifty that is dated 3/03. So all this really started around the beginning of the year. Paper notes are a good thing.

And in later breaking news….

Just finished the quilting on Red Sky Red Sky. It was looking iffy there for awhile as I hit the point where it seems that someone or thing is unquilting the quilt as fast as I’m quilting it. How else to explain the lack of progress? Could it be the amount of thread going into the thing? Perhaps. As I reached the last bit it seemed the bobbins ran out too quickly. eeeks! I stopped to fill another two after running totally out. Good old Mettler 500 in the bobbin. My all time favorite thread and color.

At this point I’d like to thank Glenn Gould and Carly Simon for getting me around that last corner and down the last side and to all the little people who made it possible…. I mean — I have no idea what I mean. Here’s a link to the unquilted top. It looks different now.

Guess tomorrow I’ll have to pick out a final binding choice and get to work finishing it. whew.

Great news!

The quilt that my mother and I made, now officially dubbed “Life’s Memories” was accepted to be a part of the special “I Remember Mama” exhibit at the 2004 International Quilt Festival in Houston TX. I got an email this afternoon, actually addressed to Mom and my co-workers stood by while I called Mom and gave her the news. They gave a big round of applause!

Nice way to end the week. Way to go us!

Another view here.