My brother's new addition enjoying one of my first quilts, c. 2001. Made during my graveyard shifts at AT&T.
Conference tables made great workspaces.
I had a thing for gaudy commercial cotton prints.
see below.
This post from April, 2005!
4.27.2005
the Run for the Border
...the North Carolina border, that is.Today Jan Thompson and I made our annual pilgrimage to MaryJo's in Gastonia, NC like a team of Sumo wrestlers descending upon the local Chinese buffet! Disturbed to find that MJs no longer provided grocery store style shopping carts to it's patrons, we shanghaied an empty one from one of the folks reshelving the bolts we were pillaging wildly. Jan's Corvette made the ride a joy and the envy of every trucker through three states and I think she only broke a few laws. Something about low-flying aircraft maybe...This is Estelle, our ever-patient cutting Wizardess at MJ's - "ALWAYS worth the ride!" should be their motto. See the luscious batiks over Estelle's right shoulder. They are even tastier tucked into my stash but they will have to wait until I get back from a dash up to NY. The plane leaves at 6:30 tomorrow and I am not yet packed. Back next week with new stuff in the works and NY adventures to report.
FLASH! MARYJO'S HAS A "HELP WANTED" SIGN POSTED IN THE WINDOW!I had to stop and consider the ramifications of a 6 hour daily commute.
FLASH! MARYJO'S HAS A "HELP WANTED" SIGN POSTED IN THE WINDOW!I had to stop and consider the ramifications of a 6 hour daily commute.
2 comments:
Ha. Love seeing your history! Trust me the commute would not have been worth it, sucking the joy out of the place you loved! I did a 5+ hour, both ways, commute for 7 years. Aged me something awful!
Mary Jo's was a must stop on every road trip south. for years and years!!
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