DWM: a clean slate

Nothing on the design wall today because I've been finishing flimsies (unquilted tops)!  In the past two weeks I've quilted and bound Rusty Bows , Leftovers , and  Ohio Stars .  I am nearly finished quilting Nine Patch Cross .  Pam S. finished quilting Double Delight which I picked up on Saturday and bound last evening.

A bad case of hat-hair....

Yesterday afternoon Irene and I joined many quilting friends at the Warren-Newport Public Library for a book-signing by Jennifer Chiaverini whose latest novel is Sonoma Rose.  It's the 19th novel in the Elm Creek Quilts series and she told us she's under contract for three more.  Jennifer's first-ever library appearance was at the Lake Villa District Library in 1999.  We had to persuade the publisher that, yes, quilters would come out for an author program.  Now Jennifer goes on tour to both libraries and quilt shows when her new books are published.

Jennifer's first library program: 3/21/99, Lake Villa District Library

You can see what other quiltmakers have been working on at Judy's Patchwork Times blog

Live with more books than you read

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Quotation of the Day

Good Advice: Live with More Books than You Read

"He should live with more books than he reads, with a penumbra of unread pages, of which he knows the general character and content, fluttering round him. This is the purpose of libraries.... It is also the purpose of good bookshops, both new and secondhand, of which there are still some, and would that there were more. A bookshop is not like a railway booking-office which one approaches knowing what one wants. One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye.

"To walk the rounds of the bookshops, dipping in as curiosity dictates, should be an afternoon's entertainment. Feel no shyness or compunction in taking it. Bookshops exist to provide it; and the booksellers welcome it, knowing how it will end."

--Economist John Maynard Keynes, as quoted in a Canberra Times piece headlined "Bookshops about more than just purchasing

Watch this space

The first five photos are of the peonies in our back yard. They are going to be glorious in just a couple of weeks! DH planted a dozen tomato plants and a bell pepper plant today. That's the extent of our vegetable garden--but if all goes well, we'll have a nice crop (supplemented by the bounty at the farmer's market).