Black History month is only days away and many wonderful exhibits are happening. The Dekalb Library System in Georgia has four weekends of events:

Feb. 7, 2pm-4pm -Quilt History Panel Discussion- Decatur Library- Members of Brown Sugar Quilt Guild will conduct a panel discussion on history of quilting and a brief slide presentationwhich discusses the evolution of quilting from Africa to America. A quilter (me) will display quilts and tell quilt stories. All ages are welcome.

Feb. 14, 12:30pm-2:30pm- Fabric Postcards-Chamblee Library-Fabric Post cards are easy and fun to make! This program is designed for youth ages 8 years and older and for Adults also. Quilters will be present to lead a workshop on designing and constructing quilted post cards. These post cards may be mailed to friends or used as artwork in a photo frame. Open to all library goers.

Feb. 21, 12-1pm- TBA- Wesley Chapel Library

Feb. 28, 2pm-4pm Fabric Postcards-Redan-Trotti Library- Fabric Post cards are easy and fun to make! This program is designed for youth ages 8 years and older and for Adults also. Quilters will be present to lead a workshop on designing and constructing quilted post cards. These post cards may be mailed to friends or used as artwork in a photo frame. Open to all library goers.

I was excitedly awaiting these notecards all week. So many people asked for notecards with pictures of the quilts. So I'm finally at work making a series or something like that. These cards are ready to send out as thank yous, missing yous, just thinking of yous or what ever you want. Stop by my website (http://www.obaquilts.com/) and get some.

This is "A Quilter's Dream (is to be one with the quilt)" My friend just told me yesterday that it was a picture of me piecing the Improv quilt. Never thought of it that way. I surely have been ingulfed in a quilt like that before.

Honor to Mr. President. I have been glued to the tv all day. This is so exciting. President Obama delivered the inspirational speech we all expected. He has continuously reminded us that it is going to take all of us to make it work, so I'm rolling up my sleeve.

This is the quilt that I made from the Khanga cloth of Tanzanzia (http://www.simplytanzanian.com/). The fabric made a really nice sized that will make either a nice throw, wallhanging or nap quilt. I quilted the United States right in the center of the quilt. You can see it on the back view. I am now inspired to do another quilt about the President.

First I want to thank Kyra at Black Threads for the wonderful post about my website. If you haven't seen it yet, please be my guest at http://www.obaquilts.com/ . It has taken me several years to finally get to this point with it. I had no idea that finding someone to create the site and publish it would be so trying.

I started out with someone I kind of knew. He promised me the moon and barely delivered one star. Then he went through a divorce that landed his wife with the computer and all my stuff. So that was when I decided to do it myself with one of those sites that promise you don't have to know anything about websites to design your own. How untrue. I did something but their template software was not ready for primetime. It couldn't link pages. It couldn't do rollovers and on and on. So I gave that up.

Then a closer friend who did this on the side. He put up a wonderful site but never could find the time to finish it. Then more friends and friends of friends.

One of my daugthers found someone who promised the other side of the moon. I wonder why some of the people who work on computers talk such a good game but can not deliver. He was not only going to lasso the moon but reel in the stars with it. Still not much.

Then the sky parted and my daugther decided to learn to create websites. She is wonderful and patient. I can't thank her enough. She's probably out there working on it right now. Check it out to see what she has done recently.

This Harriet Tubman quilt always inspires awe and conversation, maybe because it is queen bed sized. it feels like she could step right off the quilt. Harriet Tubman said, (and I paraphrase) "I freed over 300 people but I could have freed more if they knew they were enslaved." Wow!

Extraordinary Results!

This quilt is called Improv. It is the star of the Extrordinary Results! quilt exhibit. When I started I thought i would do a small color wheel but the more I worked on it the more it grew. I wanted to express the sounds coming out of the trumpet and the player as it starts out methodically then turns to improvisation.

What do you think?