There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears a Human soul.
All the homes I've owned over the years have been filled with books. I have a bookshelf in the kitchen (mainly cookbooks), my bedroom (five, if you count the self built into my headboard and the two built into each side of my desk), one tall one in the guest room, two in the studio -- not counting the boxes of magazines and pattern booklets -- and then there are those in the shelves in the base of the coffee table in the living room, and still others in a basket beside the love seat, art books stacked on an antique round table in the front window, and the art/craft magazines in the wooden rack next to an over-stuffed chair.
And did I mention the stack(s) on the pass-through shelf from the living room to the kitchen? Or the ones on the top of the coffee table at any given moment? What about the ones on the 1910 pine pedestal table next to the computer desk?
No? Oh well... 😉
I had a birthday about 10 days ago -- and now await eagerly the two books I bought from my Chapters/Indigo 'wish list' with a gift card from my son and his wife:
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| Brand new...just out! Textile Landscape - Cas Holmes |
and
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| Ten years old but speaks to me now... the art of felt - Loumange Francoise Tellier |
Both should be in my hands by early October. Yummy!
Meanwhile, I've spent the last four days finishing the Bookshelf Quilt.
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| Five of six rows joined together |
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| What the back sashing looked like before it was hand-sewn down |
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| Quilting Detail - bottom |
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| Quilting Detail - side |
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| Quilting Detail - top |
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| Ready for binding |
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| Label Detail You Can't Tell a Book by Its Cover |
I confess it's taken me much longer than I expected -- due in part to the customized quilting and then again, in part due to my learning curve involving adding borders to the centre six shelves (a 'medallion' of sorts). I am so thankful for my new Pfaff (Performance 5.2) that has enabled me to finish it up with even stitch tension etc. 😊
As for me, though the application for a solo exhibit at the Leighton Centre didn't pan out for 2019, I've got a 10" square panel to do up for the 2018 Alberta Society of Artists 100 @ 100 Fundraiser; I have a piece coming up on the block in Section 2 of the 2018 SAQA Benefit Auction -- next week; I have more features of my new Pfaff sewing machine to explore; and I have more ideas and experiments to play with in the coming months so...
All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
Here's to books -- and here's to a great rest of the week!
