The good news is that I only have 12 or so inches of applique to go on the final border. It has been 18 months and I am far from done but at least I am getting closer. After the applique comes the embroidery--lots of veins on leaves, rose hairs, stems for all those berries. Then comes the marking of the top. I don't envision anything fancy. I do not do machine quilting but even if I did, the original Baltimore Album style quilts had very limited fancy feathers and wreathes so I don't plan to go crazy adding those. You can check out the Gorsuch family quilt online to see what the classic quilts used. I might try to fit in the date or if there is room somewhere some minor embellishments but most of the applique really fills the blocks.
The bad news is that we are led by a mad man who is being led by mad men. Listening to Giuliani and Trump outline their legal ideas is maddening and unnerving. Reading the Sekulow/Dowd letter to the DOJ is laughable and unnerving. Watching Trump announce a worldwide trade war is ridiculous and unnerving. Everyone who supports Trump is like all the people who were still buying and selling short in the summer of 1929 but even more ludicrous. As any economist will tell you, Trump hasn't been in office long enough for most of the economic news to be directly attributable to him. What is directly attributable is the rising interest rate and the international consternation. Trump may have done two years at Penn as an undergraduate but he never had to pay much attention and he still hasn't learned the skill.
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