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Join the MoveOn.org Photo Project

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

MoveOn.org has launched a new project to show Congress and the media that the folks who oppose the war are a broad swath of Americans–and we’re going to keep speaking out until Congress brings our troops home.

It’s called ‘Americans for Exit’ and here’s how it works: You send MoveOn a picture of you which shows how you feel about the war. Then you can also record a voice comment, by phone, to go with your picture.

It’s really easy and it’s a powerful way to send our message to Congress. I already joined in–you should too.

Click here to get started

More on the Moveon.org Ad

Friday, September 21st, 2007

OK. I lied. I just have to share an even better rant on this. I think that Keith Olbermann, the MSNBC superstar, is a genius and the bravest journalist on the air. Listen to his take on the Patraeus/betray us fiasco.

Click here for last night’s rant posted on You Tube.

A Free Speech Rant

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

I used to be known for my political rants. I have been too quiet for too long. Today I am disgusted with the Senate. In the words of moveon.org, the US Senate just told you to sit down and be quiet.

Perhaps you have been under a rock or in the wilderness and have not heard about the ad placed in the New York Times on the day of General Patraeus’ report to congress. If so, you can down load this pdf to see the ad. petraeusnytad.pdf

I have been a proud contributor to moveon.org over the years. I am proud of the work they do. Nothing was said in the ad that is not absolutely true. We have been lead down a garden path of lies and fabrications by the administration so that they can continue an illegal war in Iraq and perhaps even start one with Iran (a very scary thought).

What is happening to free speech in the United States of America? I am upset by the tasering of the student in Florida. One of the women of Code Pink was kept out of a Hillary Clinton rally because she was wearing a get out of Iraq t-shirt.

When the Republicans do something like this, I can just roll my eyes. But these Democrats voted with them. If you are as upset by this as I am, please e-mail them or call their local offices to complain. Let them know that it is a right and a privilege to dissent in this country.

No Republican voted against condemning the MoveOn ad. All 25 votes against the amendment were Democrats. Democrats who voted with Republicans to condemn the MoveOn ad were:

Baucus
Bayh
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Conrad
Dorgan
Feinstein
Johnson
Klobuchar
Kohl
Landrieu
Leahy
Lieberman
Lincoln
McCaskill
Mikulski
Nelson, Ben
Nelson, Bill
Salazar
Tester
Webb

You can also go to the moveon.org site and sign an online petition.I promise that I will get back to textile talk tomorrow.

Thursday This and That

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

I am starting with a bit of a rant, tonight. At 9 pm EDT, what were you doing? I was not watching our pig-headed president once again try to scare us into believing that leaving our troops in harm’s way is a good thing. Mr C and I could not bear to listen and so we watched an HGTV re-run. Does anyone believe the report that was given to Congress? I feel so sad for the Iraqis who have been killed and who now live in terror — captives in their homes, if they have not fled where they now live as refugees in another country. Most of the time I just don’t want to deal with this. I want to pretend that this chaos is not continuing in the name of operation Iraqi Freedom. Is it best to sit idly, waiting for the end of Bush’s term? Or should we start hitting the streets, as we did during the Vietnam war?

Next on my list is a report in on my weight. I lost almost a pound during the last two weeks. I missed a weigh-in last week because I was partying with Mr C. It is slow, but going in the right direction.

I am so behind in answering e-mails and comments on my blog. I have had a very busy week. I also am having a major sinus allergy attack this week.

This morning was STASH, the small group that I meet with once a month. We met at Reva’s, and she made us an incredible lunch of grilled veggies, a garbanzo/kidney bean salad and a pasta salad with shrimp. This was finished off with a plum crisp , made with plums from the tree in her backyard.

In between meetings and other things, I have been working away on the Journal Quilt. I was so depressed with it last night when I went to bed. This morning, I came down to pack up stuff to take to the meeting and thought maybe it wasn’t as bad as I thought. My quilty friends gave it a thumbs up and made me feel a little better about it.

Tonight, I finished the quilting and I think that has helped pull the piece together. Here are a couple of more sneak peaks. I was looking through some of my fabrics and found some grids that I had screen printed in Rayna’s class. I thought they referenced the high rise windows in the skyline of Seattle.

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Here is the reflection of the space needle in a high rise, printed on organza and quilted. I love how it looks.

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Tomorrow, I am going to work the show at the Japanese Garden in the afternoon. Congrats to Terry who had sold two pieces as of yesterday. I am going to try to sneak some photos of the show. We are not supposed to take photos of the work, but I think some long shots will be ok.

Keeping My Cool

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

It has been very hot in our town. This means taking walks earlier in the day, drinking lots of water and staying in the cool basement studio getting stuff done.

Before I show you what I have been doing, I just want to say this. Why in heck would I give a rat’s patooty to know anything about Victoria (Posh) Beckham. I am sick of the hype!! (Edited to remove the suggestion of profanity!!)

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These are Texas Bluebonnets, in honor of Lady Bird Johnson. I adored her. I remember when she started the wildflowers along the freeways campaign. Every time I saw them in California, I would say a silent thank you.

Today, I decided to use some screen printed bamboo with some of my antique Japanese textiles. The first one has a lot of pink and probably does not look very wabi sabi, but I like the combo of fabrics and colors. The screen print is done on one of my discharged fabrics from the class last week. I don’t know whether to face it or do a binding in black or green.

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The next piece is fused to black felt. After I quilt it, I think I will do the satin stitch edging. There are two screens on this. One is a discharge which discharged to blue. I decided to screen over it with textile paint to look like a shadow.
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Wednesday is my weigh in day at Weight Watchers. I am happy to say that I have now lost 5 and 1/2 pounds in my first two weeks. I feel pretty good about that because this past week, I did a lot of eating out.

Tomorrow, we are having our Stash meeting at Gale’s house. She lives in Astoria, over on the coast. So I have to get up and be ready to take off at 8 am. It will be much cooler there, so it should be a good day. Well, any day with the stash women is a good day!!