One of the First
By Beverly Hicks Burch
Several years ago when I was the president of a quilt guild I would occasionally do a program called “Here is where I started and here is where I am…”
The program was usually prompted after a newer member said, “My stitches will never be that small!”
In the program I brought out my very first (humbling) project and had it next to my latest project. It was a study and comparison in extremes. This is where I was…and this is where I am…if I can do this, so can you… This is how lousy my stitching was and this is how improved it is…
Well, today’s pictures are not of that very first project, but it’s close.
This is a small wall hanging I made using the traditional log cabin pattern. There are things that are “wrong” of you will. I folded my backing to the front for the binding, and looking at the fabric I do believe is a poly/cotton blend. And the quilting…oh, my…, but, hey, it was an improvement over the very first. I made this in 1987 about a year after I started quilting. Thankfully by then I knew enough to start labeling my quilts.
If you don’t already do it, please find a way to label you work for future generations…they will thank you!
Log Cabin 1987
Log Cabin 1987 – Quilting Detail
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Blocks Without Borders
By Beverly Hicks Burch
If you DO NOT have a sense of humor, please don’t read any further, because YES! this is a pun…a play on Doctors without Borders, Engineers without Borders, Teachers without Borders, Librarians without Borders, Journalists without Borders, TV Reports without Borders and any other wonderful, altruistic groups out there without Borders doing great and wonderful works for humankind.
You see, my head is too muddled from days and weeks of number crunching bills, tax extensions, tea parties, billion and trillions of dollars of future generational debt, trying to sell a wonderful house in a crappy real estate market just to have people think that’s a license to steal it from you AND a bug that makes my poor weary head feel like I have 50 pounds of cotton batting stuffed in every cranial cavity.
Other than that…I’m doing just fine…
…and even with all that I’ve managed to be semi-productive…
Rather than show you my final two Southern Stars block of the months, I thought I’d show you one step further. I have actually managed to sash the blocks together and all I need to do is add borders…and of course quilt it!
So, if you will…feast your eyes upon my blocks without borders 
…
Blocks without Borders, by Beverly Hicks Burch
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Two New Baby Southern Stars BOM
By Beverly Hicks Burch
I’ve had a very productive week. T & H also has even though he arrived back home from a conference sick as a puppy dog. His temp was almost 101°!
Among the other things I accomplished this week were the completion of blocks number 9 and 10 of the Southern Stars block of the month (BOM). That leaves two more blocks to finish and then I can sash them and add borders!!
I picked up another batik I couldn’t resist and have incorporated it in the BOMs.
Once again these blocks were machine pieced and the rotary cutter was used to cut all the fabric…no templates!
It just so happens T & H and I watched a Fons and Porter episode (#1301) couple of weeks ago that demonstrated the diagonal piecing method. (You don’t cut triangles…you use squares you sew into the corner of another square and the trim the excess for a seam allowance.) If you have a chance to catch the episode I would recommend it!
Take a gander at the two new blocks in the BamaSteelMagnolia™ solar system…
Southern Stars BOM #9 – I used the new batik in this block. You can see it in the corners and surrounding the center.
Southern Stars BOM #10
Blocks # 9 & 10 together
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A New Table for Work
By Beverly Hicks Burch
I can’t tell you how much I dread cutting my fabric sometimes. Why? A big resounding “ouch” as in pain in the back and/or hips!
You see my health isn’t the best in the world. Among other things I have joint and muscle problems. Then about a year ago I was diagnosed (although I suffered with it for a long time not knowing what it was) with bursitis in my hip. It is a pain beyond description…almost like trying to birth a 12 pound baby out you joint!
Cutting fabric for a quilt can add to the stress and pain of back and joints, especially if you cut your fabric on a short (or even standard) height surface. After a while you begin to feel like Quasimodo…and after awhile my back and hip are screaming! I can feel the pain stretch all the way down to my foot.
But, most of us just don’t feel comfortable sitting down to use our rotary cutter
My house in Alabama had an island in the kitchen and it was just the right height for rotary cutting. I would use it on occasion to cut my fabric. If you have one, give it a try…you’ll be surprised at the relief off your back.
Unfortunately when I left that house, I couldn’t carry the island with me, so for the last several years I’ve been doing my best painful Quasimodo imitation. Until this weekend…
Tall & Handsome and I had run into Sam’s to check on a couple of things. Suddenly I saw his blue eyes light up and when I followed his gaze I immediately knew why. He was looking a table I knew was bound for our quilt room…
The table top is made out of durable, hard impact plastic. The surface measurement is approximately 24” x 36”…just the right size for a large rotary mat. So, what makes this table so different from any other table I could have purchased that size? Two things.
First, the legs can adjust to three different heights…the tallest is 36”. Just the right size for no more hunched up cutting! Second, the table folds in half for easy storage and putting away…there’s even a handle on the side for carrying. All that and it’s priced under $45.
Needless to say, one found its way into the back of the Jeep. I thought I’d share a few pictures of the table at work…
The New Work Table – just right for rotary cutting
Another View
The Work Surface
The extendable Legs
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Quilt Room with a View
By Beverly Hicks Burch
The expected high today is forecasted to be 74°. And, that’s not the warmest it’s been so far this March!
When I walked into my quilt room after lunch, I couldn’t help but notice the view. I was greeted by a decidedly cheery scene…Nature in change and announcing the season. Two of my favorite spring floras are beginning to bloom and show further signs that cold weather is behind us…for the most part…
The dogwood is usually in full glory by Easter…the smaller one on the left seems to be a “late bloomer” 
. Underneath are various other shrubs including the red azalea…with some more “late bloomer” straggling along there. The larger evergreen is a Gardenia which will be in full bloom by June with fragrant, creamy white blooms…I love to float Gardenia blooms in bowls of water around the house! What a yummy fragrance!
Who wouldn’t feel inspired to be creative with this view cheering them on?
The only “negative” trade off is a back deck absolutely inundated with pollen! Wow, is it abundant! When Watson the Wonder Dog goes outside, he leaves little pollen paw prints everywhere….Ahhhh-Chooo!!! The pollen is so thick, it looks like a light dusting of snow…well, yellow-greenish snow…but, I’ll take the trade-off for the view out front.
Hope you enjoy my Quilt Room with a View…
Quilt Room View – Spring 2009
Dogwoods, Azaleas and Gardenia…
The Window with the View – after the storm that surprised us last July and left a big pine tree on top of the house…right over the Quilt Room – I didn’t hang things back on the wall since I knew I’d be packing up again for another move…
Part of “the” stash…the rest is still packed in boxes somewhere….
Books and such…
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South by Southwest©
By Beverly Hicks Burch
A major milestone has been completed. Back during the holiday season (2008) Tall & Handsome had two weeks of free time…home…uninterrupted…with me…
Yep, you can see this “working-out-of-town-for-the-week-and-coming-home-for-the-weekend” cycle is getting really old…fast…or slow in our case…since August. You see, we celebrated our 5th anniversary in December and we enjoy and miss getting to spend a daily life together. Guess we’re funny like that…
Besides celebrating Christmas, our anniversary, New Years and my birthday in the span of eight days, Tall & Handsome decided to use that time to launch a new project and hobby in his life…as a “textile artist”…
Yes, he wanted to learn to quilt…
When some people hear I’m teaching my husband to quilt, their first reaction is subtle…”ARE YOU CRAZY, WOMAN?!” Then when I explain this is the second man I’ve taught to quilt (yes, I taught Gomez, the ex, how to quilt, also) they usually have to pick their chin up off the floor.
It’s like,” Why would you want to do that?!”
Well there’s many reason. One is a shared affliction:). He now knows the lure and pull of new fabric calling…”the urge to splurge” and the need to create… Although quilting may seem to be an odd pursuit for a man to pursue, it’s really not that uncommon or even rare anymore. There are many celebrated male quilters in the quilt community nowadays.
For T & H it seemed like a natural progression of his interest in art and design. He had originally started college as an art major and dabbled in photography and stained glass design and work over the years. Quilting appeals to a lot of people…men included…for the artistic and design value. It is after all a creative outlet for many people…
Those two weeks in December were our maiden voyage…the kick off of his first lessons and our first project together.
I had purchased some Southwestern themed fabric a couple of years ago or so with the intent to make him a quilt that would remind him of “home”…the Southwest and/or New Mexico in particular. Well, life and circumstances intervened and the fabric was never used…
When he decided he wanted to learn to quilt, I saw that as a golden opportunity to utilize the long ignored fabric. (I also need to interject here that he’s been a very apt student. He was determined to learn as much as he could and to do the best he could. I’m pleased and proud of his determination, efforts and result.)
So, out of those circumstances South by Southwest© born…
South by Southwest© combines our two heritages. Yall know I’m Southern…as it gets…and quite fond and proud of my Southern heritage.
I call T & H my Southwest cowboy…he’s originally from the Southwest. He was born in a little cattle town called Clovis, NM near the Texas border in cattle country. The genealogist in me was curious…how and from where do families “relocate” to little a Plains town at the edge of New Mexico?
I was surprised to find out T & H’s roots are as Southern as mine. His people hailed from states like South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas and Arkansas. (There is one Yankee thrown in there…a Scotsman from Nova Scotia…and I love the Scots!) T & H grew up in the South and is a alumnus of Florida State University, but he did move back to New Mexico for several years. That’s where he was living when we met.
For the quilt we used the pattern Tennessee Waltz for a nod toward my Southern heritage and place of birth (and ironically part of his heritage)…and used the Southwestern fabric he helped choose a couple of years ago. We used the “quilt in a day” method…and I have to ask, “Is that really possible?!”
It’s taken two people this long to complete the top…how can one person make a “quilt in a day”? Of course we had that thing we’re dealing with…only getting to squeeze in time to work on it when he’s home for the weekend…and then only if other matters aren’t pressing. The borders were our own design and choice.
So, let me share the finished top and steps that went into the making of South by Southwest©…
Cutting the Strips for the Four Patches
The Strips Sewn Together
Cutting the Strips into Sections for Four Patches
Making the Four Patches
Fabric for the Star Points
Cutting the Rectangles for the Star Points – Yes, this will make the star points!
Next, cut the rectangles in half…
Cut the insert or filler space between the Star Points…
Make the Star Points – sew the blue rectangle halves on the filler section…
After the Star Point sections are made…even them up with the special “Quilt in a Day” template…then you are ready to assemble the Star blocks…
Next make the Snowball blocks – cut a 9.5 in. square and four smaller squares…draw a diagonal across the back of each small square and the following the pencil line, sew a smaller square onto each corner of the larger block. Trim to a 1/4 in. seam allowance and press…
The finished blocks – Snowball block on the left; Star block on right
Begin to assemble the rows – this is the 1st two rows assembled…
Next, begin to attach the borders – here is a detail of the border fabrics and order of attachment
Snowball blocks were made for the corner of the borders…
One of the affects of the design…
Another affect of the design – a secondary design…
South by Southwest©
T & H with our 1st joint project…South by Southwest©
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New Southern Stars are Born…
By Beverly Hicks Burch
I know I’ve been quiet lately on the quilting front…at least on the blogging side. But, behind the scenes there has been some activity…
One of the things you learn to do when you have disabilities and chronic health issues is how to pace yourself. I learned that lesson a looooong time ago…I had to if I wanted to survive.
Two of my favorite words? Lap top. I can drag that puppy up in the bed with me and get connected! To the world…to family…to quilting…
For my birthday this year Tall & Handsome gave me EQ6. Wow, what a dream! I really haven’t had a chance to play with it until the past couple of weeks and I love, love, love it. While I’ve been recovering from some flares and other issues I’ve pulled that lap top up in my lap, propped my study buddy and a bunch a pillows up and went to “class”.
If you have the program or plan on purchasing it any time soon, I highly recommend going through the paces of the six lessons provided in the manual and watching the how-to videos embedded within the program. The lessons are easy to follow, informative and extremely helpful.
I’ve paced myself all the way through lesson five and just have lesson six left to finish. As a result, I’ve been able to use it to play with the overall design of The BamaSteelMagnolia™ Diary Quilt, draw some blocks…and be really impressed with the software. I’ve even asked myself, “Wow, does this software give quilters who own it an unfair advantage?” The potential is limited only to the user’s imagination.
I’ve also managed to pace myself to finish a block or two on the diary quilt, finish two more Connecting Threads Southern Stars Block of the Month and tentatively plan the remaining BOMs.
So, let me show you the latest Southern Stars born…BOM # 7 & 8…born during a flare …
Southern Stars Block of the Month #7
Southern Stars Block of the Month #8
Southern Stars BOM # 7 & 8 – together
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The two new Southern Stars BOM born in the BamaSteelMagnolia(TM) Universe are blocks 5 and 6. I think block 6 is one of my favorites so far…T & H is fond of block 5.
Only six more to go…and then the sashing and border.
Southern Stars BOM #5
Southern Stars BOM #6
Southern Stars BOM # 5 & 6 together
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The thread has been flying and the machines have been humming recently in my quilt room. It has probably been the most used (wanted and loved) room in the house.
You see in addition to me finishing my first complete project in over three years, I have taken on an appliqué project, started the BamaSteelMagnolia™ Diary Quilt, started the Connecting Threads Southern Stars BOM quilt, and I have, along the way discovered (to my delight) two protégés.
One has been my Tall and Handsome (DH as you quilters call your hubby). During the holiday season last year when he had some extra time off from work, he decided to embark on his “quilting as a pastime” journey. As a former college art major, quilting appeals to him on that level. He’s done great and soon I’ll have pictures up on the blog of our first joint project together. Just a hint: it combines our two heritages…
My next quilting buddy has been a sweet friend named Shari. Shari is a realtor, wife and busy mom and over the years has expressed her creative side through other needle arts. That gave her a head start. This has been her first quilt project and she breezed through it with amazing speed and acumen.
I think we are adding two very talented quilters to our midst.
Shari’s first project was a mystery quilt I facilitated as a guild project several years ago. Through the choice of fabric and quilting every finished quilt is a totally individual and different “end result”. Shari’s pops and sparkles…it’s stunning. In person it reminds me of a Persian rug or a tapestry. It’s her first quilt for her son a tall, strapping handsome kid named Phillip. So, in his honor she has christened her first project Stars Shine on Phillip
Stars Shine on Phillip, by Shari C. Alexander
The Art & the Artist – Stars Shine on Phillip with Shari
If you ever have a chance to do a mystery quilt, I would recommend it…even as a group project. Don’t worry that everybody’s will look the same…they won’t!
Here’s the one I did when I taught the Mystery class:
“Oh Say Cay You See, It’s A Mystery…” by Beverly Hicks Burch
You can see even thought the overall pattern in the same, the “look” is different just by using different fabric and border choices. I opted for a patriotic theme to use a border fabric I’d been eager to use. I drew my colors from it.
Border Fabric for “Oh Say Can You See, It’s a Mystery…”
Design formed by the Mystery Quilt Design
Quilting Detail – “Oh Say Can You See, It’s a Mystery…”
It does my heart good to see our art continue to grow and develop, and almost anyone’s interest is piqued by a mystery. What better way to combine the two?
© 2009 Beverly Hicks Burch All Rights Reserved.
The BamaSteelMagnolia(TM) Diaries – Chapter 3: Compass or Where in the World is Bev? by Beverly Hicks Burch
The BamaSteelMagnolia™ Diaries –
Chapter 3: Compass…or Where in the
World is Bev?
By Beverly Hicks Burch
*Form of this also appears on “A Steel Magnolia is an Iron Butterfly” for my reader there who would not normally read a “quilting” related blog.
What’s your idea of adventure? I realize the idea or concept of adventure is relative to each individual. To some a few dashes of habanera sauce over their food or going mustang one day when they forgot to wash their underwear (translate: they venture out the front door sans underwear ^-^…oh, yeah, it happens) is adventurous.
Now, I’ve never considered myself a particularly adventurous person. I guess because I view adventure as jumping out of an airplane with a thin piece of fabric between me and death (some call it skydiving); or jumping off a tall building or bridge with a big rubber band tied around my ankles as adventurous (some call that bungee jumping); or spelunking…you know crawling around in small, dark, damp, bug and bat filled caves as adventurous and fun…and I just don’t have an inclination in doing those things or going those places…EVER…and that’s why I’ve never view myself as adventurous.
So you can imagine my surprise when my Momma told me one time she thought I was adventurous. I was as the British say, gobsmacked.
It happened back in January of 1988. My paternal grandmother had just passed away. Versie, or Mamaw as I called her, and Mom to her boys, was one of a kind…and sometimes that “kind” was like a stubborn ol’ mule. She definitely liked being noticed and sometimes she wouldn’t stop short of antics to attract attention.
Well, in typical Versie fashion, Mamaw passed away during one of the worse winter storms in our “neck of the woods”. Oh yeah, we’re talking bitter cold, ice and snow…remember we’re talking the South where most of the time we’re not prepared to deal with the powdery, icy stuff.
Just the “S” word causes marathon bread and milk lines in the grocery stores and school closings. An inch of winter wonderland will shut a city down…and with this particular storm we were talking several inches and roads that looked like ancient glaciers. Yep, Versie would garner a lot of hoopla getting her family together for her final farewell.
You see, Daddy was still working in project management for Rust Engineering in Birmingham, AL. At the time he was running two jobs in Broward County, FL and he was on the job site in sunny, snow free Florida when word came. Mamaw was not doing well and, finally had not made it through her final crisis.
Daddy set about immediately trying to line up a flight from southern Florida back to East Tennessee were Mamaw had been living. The weather was so bad many airports were closed and when Daddy finally was able to get a flight headed North that just might get him to East Tennessee, well, it was via Pennsylvania. No kidding.
Then on top of that, his luggage was lost by the airline…floating around in airline Hades. When Daddy touched down outside of Knoxville all he had was the clothes on his back and all you snowbirds know, sunny Florida wear just won’t hack it during the frigid breath of Old Man Winter.
Well, Momma being the true Steel Magnolia she is just wasn’t going to stand her man being out there in that condition…Old Man Winter didn’t know who he was facing. Momma packed up some warm cloths for Daddy, called me and let me know my Daddy needed us urgently. The family snowball was rolling downhill like a steam engine. (Of course we would have gone for the services you silly goose! But, that was later, this was NOW!)
At the time I was a “minivan” mom. We loaded up my minivan with Momma, my disabled younger sister, my ex (Gomez is his code name for my writing), my son and me and we headed out at the blistering speed of a snail pace! Hand to God, I kid you not…
You see, we were driving on big sheets of ice or as I fondly (no, I wouldn’t say hysterically) called them…glaciers. I sat in the third back seat of the van, feeling every slip and slide the van made, saw cars as we passed them lodged in ditches where they had spun off the road and I was white knuckled every time we passed a monster 18 wheeler.
As some point, I must have muttered something like, “I hope we don’t end up as ink spots under the 18 wheels of a big truck” because I heard my little Momma say, “Why, Bev I thought you were adventurous.”
“Huh? What does dieing under the wheels of a truck have to do with being adventurous, Mom? Why on Earth do you say I’m adventurous?”
“Because you like to travel.”
Well, there it is folks…maybe I am adventurous because I do like to travel. So, there’s adventure spelled “Bev” style and the reason I chose the Compass block for The BamaSteelMagnolia™ Diary Quilt.
Compass Block – The BamaSteelMagnolia Diary Quilt
I guess I do have a little bit of wanderlust in me and I love to see how the “other half” lives. Sometimes I’d like to pretend I was a raven hair gypsy with big gold hoop earrings and a “traveling wagon” just going across the world seeing this big wonderful Earth that God created. I even love to travel by car…
I’m the type that enjoys the trip as much as the destination. Sometimes I think air travel hampers that, especially nowadays. Air travel is no longer “glamorous”. I think air travel has actually created “flying cattle”. I had the “privilege” to experience that first hand recently. But I digress…
I’ve seen some wonderful things and have been some wonderful places. I value the Creation, i.e., the beauty of our World just as much as anything man-made…and many times more so. Memories are burnt into my mind and can never be robbed from me by anyone…only time or age, but they are memories of places I will always cherish.
I would be hard pressed to name just one favorite…would it be standing on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park in Maine breathing in the surreal view of the North Atlantic, sitting at a sidewalk café in old Quebec City? Watching bison in North and South Dakota? Standing in awe at Mount Rushmore? Smelling the sulfur as it filtered past my nostrils as I gazed out over the vast caldera at Volcano National Park in Hawaii?
Did Bev have fun in Hawaii?
Trying to comprehend the unbelievable vastness of Lake Superior, driving Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia? Watching the glow during the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, or seeing in person the wonder of the mysterious stairway in Loretta Chapel in Santa Fe? And which lighthouse do I say, “This is my favorite one.” Oh, no that’s an impossible task, but I will never forget climbing the spiral staircase of Split Rock Light in Minnesota as the smell of burning birch wood wafted up towards me.
Bev at Gooseberry Falls, MN ca 1987
Heavenly! Will I even forget the view of New York Harbor from Miss Liberty? No, who would?!
Bev & Pam, my sister, on Liberty Island, ca 1983 – note the Trade Towers over my shoulder
One experience I am so very thankful for is the privilege of being able to stand atop one of the World Trade Towers in the observation deck and view Manhattan and the surrounding area as the sun went down and the lights in the City sprang to life. I will NEVER be able to have that experience again, it is lost in history. Unfortunately there are generations of Americans who will never have that opportunity either…that is a tragedy…
In January I had the opportunity to do something on my “things to do before I die” list…or as it’s called nowadays, the “bucket list”. It has been a lifelong goal and dream of mine to visit the Grand Canyon. Tall and Handsome and I took some time to do that last month, and it’s a trip we will never forget.
We just had a weekend, but we are soooo glad we went, and we enjoyed the way we visited. You see he was in Arizona on business for a couple of weeks, but had a free weekend. He was at the offices in Tucson and Scottsdale. I shared a few pictures from there…”rooms with a view” type things previously in my blogs.
Well, that Friday when he left work we drove north to a little town called Williams, AZ where we stayed overnight. Believe me when I tell you…there is a big difference in temperature. Down in Tucson and Scottsdale if the temp fell below 70, the heat was cranked up big time! This Southern girl thought she would DIE. I mean that it sleeve weather and open window weather where I come from!
But, as we drove north we began to see that aforementioned white stuff…yeah, snow! And, boy did it get colder…
Williams is about an hour from the Grand Canyon, but we opted to take the train from Williams right to the village on the South Rim. It was such a neat and novel experience and I would recommend you try it at least once. Once we arrived at the South Rim, we were right there…and the tour company had a tour bus lined up for us. The tour took us along the South rim for some breathtaking views of the Canyon.
I can not tell you what it was like to see it for the first time. T & H and I both agreed it was almost emotional. It was stunning, it was breathtaking… I’ve come to the conclusion there isn’t a superlative or adjective big enough to fit the Canyon. One of my first thought was, “How can you look at this and not realize there is Something, Someone bigger than man?” We both agreed that we hope we never become too jaded to appreciate the wonderment of this kind of natural beauty.
Every View You Speechless
You Never Tire of These Views
A Walk in the (Snow) Clouds
Can You See the Colorado River?
I DO NOT Know How I Got My Mouth to Do That! T & H said he looks like a Mighty Whitey…it was Sooooo Cold and Windy
Our Homeward Bound Engine
It was cold while we were there (actually the best time for me to be there given my health problems and how badly heat affects me). Highs were in the 40’s and 30’s and the lows were in the teens. Yes, there was snow in spots and places and the forecast called for more. As we looked out across the wind swept mouth of the Canyon, I remember watching as the clouds grazed the Northern Rim and I thought, “We’re walking in the clouds”. (The elevation was over 7,000 feet and that was an experience in itself for a two time lung cancer survivor!)
We were taken to our lodge and after eating we both were so exhausted we collapsed into bed. I wanted to be ready for the next day…wanting to capture as much as I could before we had to catch the train back.
We were greeted the next morning with snow flurries as we made our farewell round in the Village at the South Rim. We caught shuttle buses to take us around to the shops, wandered through the lobby of the El Tovar which sat right on the South Rim and then left the warmth of the fireplace to brave the brisk wind and spitting snow to walk over to the Hopi House.
And then, to the Rim for a few final glimpses…last looks just to burn into memory the views, the colors of this National treasure…I had a hard time tearing myself away…
We went on to the train depot, and as the train gently carried us south, my tired body and mind tried to take in everything I had just seen.
So, there it is…adventure BamaSteelMagnolia style…and the very reason for the Compass block. There is no way that block would be left out of my diary quilt. My points my not be quite as sharp as they were years ago before illness started taking effect, but my thought on that? C’est la vie! So what?! My points and quilting are a lot like the travel I love so dearly…I love the trip as much as the destination or end result…
Now, if only that Compass would tell me where I’m going next…
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