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Colorado Side Trip for Snow and Ice by Lynn Welsch

June 06, 2022

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Wisdom of Trees - Progress Report - Frances Murphy

I love the process of quilting. It's a meditation and a great way to escape from this crazy world for a few hours. Freshly cleaned and serviced sewing machine!! My quilt is lookin' good!

Thoughts on how this is going?

here is a picture of my piece for "The Way We Were" -- I haven't yet started to quilt it, and the color in the photo may not be that great, but I'm wondering if any of you have any suggestions on this piece the fabric for the "wallpaper" is actually a yellow and white stripe that I will stitch as part of the quilting to amp up the color, but the composition still feels a bit "static" to me any ideas? thanks, Bev

What's New, Pussycat? - Frances Murphy

I thought and thought and thought about the call for "The Way We Were". At first, all I could think about was the Barbara Streisand/Robert Redford movie and I couldn't get that song out of my head! Then I started analyzing what "The Way We Were" meant to me as an artist. I have always loved the graphics style of the early 1960's. It seemed to permeate every facet of our culture: Television (i.e., "The Jetsons"), movies ("What's New, Pussycat?"), magazines, billboards, fashion, furniture, home and business decor. In America, our culture was teetering on the edge of a new world. We were in the Atomic Age, we were in a cold war with Russia, we lived through the Cuban missile crisis, the possibility of nuclear war was very, very real, and we were dealing with segregation, racial cruelty, and race riots. The post-World War II world was quickly changing, and our popular culture was about to be blasted again by the Vietnam war and t...

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Colorado Side Trip for Snow and Ice by Lynn Welsch

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