Note that this postcard is postmarked Inverness, 2 Oct 1961. And reading the written message we find that the writer was delayed by weather conditions in Lerwick and Kirkwall. All part and parcel of traveling in the far north of Scotland. I like the postage stamps also.

Here is something different in today’s COVID obsessed world – a live exhibition! This was my adventure yesterday – a live trip to Everett (about a 40 minute drive north of Seattle). I didn’t know quite what to expect. I thought maybe I was going to see an exhibition of well known patterned quilts – Log Cabin etc. But no, the quilts were really pieces of art, mostly machine-stitched, wall hangings. Pictorial for the most part but some abstract pieces. My favorite was actually what I would call the old latch hooked technique,, a representational piece I would have done as a child. But this piece was very large and a reproduction/representation of one of the Cluny panels. A gorgeous piece, mostly reds.

It’s hard to choose a favorite. The 100 or so pieces were all so different. A really inspirational show whether one agreed with the definition of fibre art or not.

One of the pieces was a huge cushion made from colorful strips of rags. This reminded me of the rag rugs I used to weave (and exhibit).

The Best of Show piece was actually a Tapestry, handwoven with hands-on wool weft on a cotton warp at 12 ends per inch.,

So there you are my tapestry weaving friends in Ireland – you could have had pieces in this show. Wish you had been here.

View from the Terrace Nyali Beach Hotel Mombasa

I wonder when this black and white image was taken.

When I was a sophomore in Middlebury College in Vermont, I lived in Le Chateau, pictured below.

Le Chateau, Middlebury College