Gobble Gobble!

4th grade indian Potlatch

Being childless means I miss out on all those fun school functions, where the kids act so cute. 
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Long ago I reminded a girlfriend that I didn't work and could go see all the daytime events and pagents her kids sang and danced at.. She often invites me to attend these fun "paper hat parades" this year she forgot and when her daughter asked "is Miss Rachel coming?" she did a fast text and I ,of course, came running.
A Northwest American Indian Potlatch sponsored by the 4th class of FOE.

4th grade indian Potlatch

 Complete with drumming circle, songs, unintelligible memorized monologues,  and a marvelous sub group of kids with crepe paper streamer wings who did a very fancy "eagle dance" which included 3 kids in paper mountain hats ( hats painted like mountain peaks) who sat on the floor so that we got the idea that the eagles were flying. very effective.
Afterwards the adults were invited up to the class room for pumpkin cake,
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 Each child also also showed off their paper hat, paper bead necklace, hand colored Totem and inside that Totem....
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each child wrote a myth .... (how the chipmonk got stripes)
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We saw all that each class had collected for the food drive

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......and a tour of the diaramas .

4th grade indian Potlatch
I liked this one especially. There are fish on those spears and the deer is dead and ready for butchering.
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Another winner with paper sack mountain, electric flickering light, split log shelter and the weebles all had real hair.

Detail:
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I like the canoe that appears to be made of the skin of the white man.

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I love the toilet paper roll Totem Pole and the exquisite popcicle Long House, but the waterfall was amazing!

I love other peoples kids... most of the time.. and I am super thankful that my friends share the fun and laughter of their children with me. 

Schools out for the holiday
Hope you get your fill of food and family..
Quilters Rock!

A Trip to My Longarmer

Today I wen to pick up my quilt. I asked "My Friend and Colleague" Nancy Stoval over at 
Just Quilting  to quilt a top for me. I wanted this top quilted by "another" and I wanted somethig I couldn't do. A grid of circles, which is perfect for her statler stitchers. 

Her studio is super cool and in an old Portland Eastside Industrial building down in Produce Row. 


A trip to my longarmer

She Has Two machines which were going full blast when we got there. 
A trip to my longarmer
 Look at that Wall of Thread! Nice Porn Shot of Gammill right... thats the new camera at work.. notice the plate of bobbins in the lower right corner.
A trip to my longarmer
 Nancy is so clever she puts the finished quilt in a nice sturdy sack (somebody needs a stamp, because Im going to be reusing that bag..hint hint) 
The quilt is going to do bed duty and when its bound I'll tell you its story and show it to you. 
 Thanks Nancy! 
Quilters Rock! 
 

New Camera





A trip to my longarmer

  I finally, after years of hemming and hawing, purchased a real camera. I'm feeling very Patti Smith and don't trust myself to write much.  
This is my first photo... it was taken outside of Target, I had to stop by and pick up a new SD card. 
Quilters Rock!
 

snowflake

snowflake by 2ndAveStudio
snowflake, a photo by 2ndAveStudio on Flickr.
I've doing hand work. lots and lots of hand work.
The round balls are yo yos, my friend Jill over at tabslot cut the cardstock templates for me.  If you have a shape you want, she can custom design either an acrylic or laser cut fabric/cardstock. She  can make almost anything almost anysize... genius!
Ive been working on a border project for this log cabin project and needed a little break, and I have all these balls and sticks that I'm using on that project. ( show it to you later when I get the corners finished)
This is a study for a new project... a maquette, if you will. I was so excited when I got it finished I just needed to share.
the plan is a modern hand applique sampler.
I know I haven't posted in a while, so I wanted to drop in and say Hi!..