Tomorrow I will post some pictures but today it's just words. My only student this year has gotten very good news from Johns Hopkins. Not only did he get into Johns Hopkins but he got a huge $150K over four years to help pay for that education. He wants to be a doctor so Hopkins is a good fit there but he is still waiting to here on Ivy Day whether he got into Yale, his first choice. He is a very good student and probably a good candidate for any school. I have never met him though I have spoken to him on the phone and exchanged numerous emails. But acceptance to college encompasses so many factors beyond test scores that predicting who gets in is a fool's game.
The pictures I hope to share tomorrow are of my latest project in its very early stages. My fabric stash is almost an embarrassment now with literal buckets full of different fabrics in multiple colors and styles. Years ago I bought a few yards of what is, all things considered, a pretty neutral background. I like the fabric a lot but I could never decide what I would do with it though I bought enough for it to be the background fabric for a decent sized quilt. The evolution of quilting and fabrics has allowed me to make bold choices in what will still be a fairly standard and predictable quilt.
Nancy Pearson was an outstanding quilt artist with Paducah award winning quilts and multiple books to her credit. She was a trained artist with a degree from the college attached to the Art Institute of Chicago just like my husband's grandmother. She died a decade or so ago but I still had some patterns that I ordered decades ago. Not all of the elements stood up to my own test of time but I have more or less finished a center medallion for a quilt that uses most of one of her patterns with alterations to fit my own aesthetic. I will put up some pix tomorrow.
