Bluebonnet Swamp Exhibit

If you are interested in joining me in the Quilt The Swamp Exhibit at our Bluebonnet Swamp I can take your quilts there to hang and send them back to you when they come down.


I have had something in the Swamp (as we call it) forever.  Our wonderful quilter/teacher/friend Michael Young is curating it once again.  It was his original idea years ago and he has hung it through several illnesses; his own and his wife's.  We are so glad to have the show go on and with him at the helm once again.

Here are some details about the show, it is not juried, nor is it judged.  But many many people see it and the venue is perfect for quilt art.  There is always someone in the building when the building is open, it is the visitor center for the Bluebonnet Swamp, which is actually wetlands in the middle of Baton Rouge that was developed into a educational area with a boardwalk through a real untouched Louisiana Swamp.  In fact when Katrina and Gustav rolled through and did damage they did not clean it up.  They left it totally natural.

So the theme is Metamorphosis and you can do anything on that line, pertaining to watershed, swamps, things in swamps, lowland areas, animals/fish/insects related to the areas......you name it.  Some do art quilts, some do vessels, some do knitting/crochet art, dolls, fiber art, shapes.  If you want to toss ideas around let me know.  

Now, here are the details!

2015  -  Quilt the Swamp (Jan. 12-Feb. 16) exhibition returns to the BREC Bluebonnet Nature Center. Michael Young as curator.  The theme is Metamorphosis.  Your commitment to Michael is due by Dec. 15^th. The Entry Form and the art piece will be due on the January 6, 2015.  Forms on the CFAL blogspot http://cfalart.blogspot.com/    Contact Michael at myoungbr@cox.net for more information.

Stash Report 4-13-14

I  busted the fabric store!

I needed a backing for the Star quilt so I could put it on the frame and finish it up.
I needed more of the grey green for the Tea Towel.
I needed all of the batik for the Mystery Quilt Challenge!

Almost 20 yards added.  Luckily, my numbers could support that.  And I made sure all of the fabric I bought had a purpose!  I hope it will all be so!

Here are the raw figures:

04/13/14
Used this week	-0.5		Used this month	-0.5	used this year	-65.5
bought this week	19.875		bought this month	19.875	bought this year	41.875
plus or minus	19.375		plus or minus	19.375	plus or minus	-23.625

A Religious Post for Easter - From ME???

100 Blocks  easter dress

Talking about getting into heaven by Father Guido Sarducci.

Buggy Barn Crazy Chicks

Nobody says you can laugh at Heaven!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/0AKvRvL5r3A?rel=0

100 Blocks Bunny

Chicks I made to go
with the big chickens

Happy Holiday to you, however you celebrate it.  I will be working in my quilt room.  

Here are my chicks and bunnies for your viewing pleasure!

I really need to finish that quilt!

All I did this week was work on my Nudes Bathing, and that is so small.  I am getting excited about working again, now that my life seems to be leveling off a bit.  So maybe I will begin to make a serious dent in my stash for a change.  But I am still 20 yards out, so not too shabby.

BUT.....that said........I got some vintage fabrics from Cousin Karen on her last visit.  From her mother's stuff. I was stoked to see it.  But it does add calories!  I will count that next week and show you some fabulous pieces.

used this week	-0.75
Used March	-5.25
added this week	0
added March	14.75
used YTD	-43.5
added YTD	23.25
stash reduction	-20.25

Sunday Drive

Since no one is commenting on the blogs I am assuming you are reading as fast as I post them.  Don't miss the last post with the paintings we did of the dog that looks just like ol' DiNozzo the Destroyer.  And the one before that of Leaders and Enders and the Bow Tie block tutorial from Anna Lena. 

In the fall we are planning a bike adventure on the Tammany Trace.  So today we took a ride to Covington to have lunch with my dear Diane-boo-kins-ville.  She lost her Ralphie just about the time we got DiNozzo.  Remember?   So we met her for lunch and took a ride through Covington to the Train Station that is the head for the Tammany Trace Rails to Trails program.

That door says Covington Rails to Trails Trailhead.  We took in the movie about how Covington got started (a guy named Wharton bought 541 acres of land from a guy named Collins who got it from the Indians.)  It got burned down twice and it has evolved into what you see today.  Over lots and lots and lots of time.  During the very early days, every man was expected to "give" 12 days of labor to the city per year.  That is how the buildings got built, the docks along the river got manned and the lumber got cut and cleared.  Interesting.

 
We saw the trailhead and talked to the lady in the museum.  She said, Don't ride the distance until the fall!  It is way too hot right now.

Covington Trailhead



Covington Train Station



So we rode down to Abita Springs and pas the Brewery and stopped at the Pavilion.  The Pavilion was built probably during the 1920's as the center of town.  It is like one of those bandstand pavilions you see in the movies.  Really. 





Abita Springs Trailhead



Pavilion



And the rich people would come and bathe in the sulphur springs and drink the sulphur water (yuck, it stunk) for their health.  We would drive up from New Orleans when I was a kid and fill buckets and containers full of the water that flowed freely from the spring by the Pavilion.  My brother and I would play in the pine woods, we would stop by the great grandparents graves, stop by the old shipyard property my great grandfather owned and then cross the 26 mile long Causeway Bridge over Lake Pontchartrain home again.

Nothing looks the same.

glen