As summer wandering takes me to new places, there are, as always, new inspiration for textile projects… knitted lobsters and quilt block variations occurred to me in this last week.  For example, the painted floor at Admiral Peary’s summer house on Eagle Island will show up in a Mariner’s Compass quilt I have in progress.
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When the trolley service ended in 1927, Shelburne Falls was a small, lively economic hub on the Deerfield River.  Machine tooling, fabric mills and even some steel production rounded out the agricultural and commercial part of the town, but the manufacturing decline was already evident.  And an abandoned 400 foot long bridge soon become a [...]

Took the “T” (subway) into town yesterday and was grieving about no knitting in my purse when a gentleman stepped up and started sharing lovely wisdom from a variety of poets and philosophers.  This one from Rumi hit just right:
Ground yourself
Strip yourself down to blind lovely silence
Stay there
Until you see
You are gazing at the light
with [...]