Went to school.
Ate donuts.
Went to the fabric store for thread.
Didn’t buy thread, but bought this Valentine mailbox kit and put it together:
Tag: girls
I’ve noticed that quilters–the ones who are prominent, well known, with Instagram feeds I aspire to myself–don’t talk about politics. My guild friends talk about it nonstop, but the community at large seems to be pretty neutral. Many of them talk about issues, and man, do we have a history of tackling some issues with fabric and thread. But less specifically about politics and candidates (even if those issues are loaded, politically). I have this sense that it’s something that’s just not done in the professional world of quilting, and I kind of straddle both professional and not. So when I had this banner idea the other night during the DNC, I suddenly got nervous and almost didn’t make it. I’m trying to build something here with my quilting, and I wondered for about 5 minutes if this would be a bad idea.
This past weekend I went to dinner with some fabulous Phi Mu ladies. We went to Ninety Acres in Peapack, NJ, a farm-to-table restaurant in the heart of Natirar park (formerly Natirar estate). It is seriously gorgeous, and the restaurant is in the carriage house of the old estate.
Today was my very last program at the public library; my official last day is on Tuesday. So I decided I wanted to have another GCPP. Following the hit formula of the first one I did back in April (which followed the hit formula of my Girl’s Club predecessor), we watched two movies, had lunch, made a craft, and were all around pretty silly.
So now that the word is out, I can write about my new job. In about 3 weeks I’ll be starting as the librarian at an elementary school closer to home. This means I won’t necessarily have as many crafty activities to write about, but I’m sure I will still have plenty of librarian-like things to post. It’s a very cool, exciting change, and I’m really looking forward to it. I just have to figure out how to deal with leaving the kids at my current public library position. I’m sure they will recover in about an hour, but I’ll be pretty upset for a while. I’m having one more Girl’s Club Pajama Party before I go, so I’m working on some fun stuff for that. Big changes!