I found these very fragile miniature figures in an antique shop near the Cornmarket in Edinburgh Scotland. This was some years ago when my husband and I were living in Dublin Ireland and travel to Scotland was relatively easy.

I am not quite sure about this house. If it weren’t for the car I would think it wasn’t occupied. It sort of has the appearance of being overtaken by the shrubbery. And the car and the bare foreground indicate other possibilities. I must go back and look again, if I can find it!

I like the interplay of colors in this postcard. Was this a hand colored image?

Wouldn’t it make a good jigsaw puzzle?

The message is kind of fun. A card written by a young girl to her cousin?

Postcard of a bygone time I Dublin Ireland

Doorways are one of my themes in postcard collecting. Today I stumbled upon an old photograph which fits this theme also. It’s a photo of 2 doorways in Dublin, or more specifically in Dún Laoghaire, some years ago.

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.