The Frayed Edges, September 2008–part one
Saturday, September 13th, 2008This month was extra special: Deborah came to visit from Texas!!!!! So all five of us were together AND we got to have a sleepover AND we did a day workshop (on Monday) on Mandalas with Natasha Kempers-Cullen…Yippeee! Here we are in the late afternoon…thanks to Kate’s hubby Andy for doing photographer duty…at one point he had five cameras dangling from neck and wrists!
Back row: Sarah Smith, Kathy Daniels, Deborah Boschert
Seated in front: Kate Cutko, Hannah Beattie
We were going to bunk over at Kate’s house like we did last year, but Kate had a brilliant idea that made it better for everyone (including her kids who had to get up and go to school Monday morning: she asked her generous neighbors, who let lots of friends use their summer house, if we could too…so we did! The house is at the very end of Browns Point, and juts into Merrymeeting Bay (isn’t that the most wonderful name? Merrymeeting? I love it….). Kate showed us one of the secrets of the point…a bald eagle’s nest (look for the tangle of sticks on the branch at lower left):
As we gathered at the house, we took something to sip and something to munch on and went to sit under the trees, near the marsh and we heard this keening overhead. We had apparently caused the two eagles some concern, so they took off from the nest, circled around the tip of the point, and settled in to some upper branches on a pine RIGHT OVER where we had our chairs!
Kathy’s birthday is at the end of August, so we celebrated and shared gifts…here’s Kath looking delighted at Kate’s gift: rust-dyed fabrics, plus more fabric and some very rusty nails to do her own rust-dyeing….only art quilters can truly appreciate how wonderful LOL!
While we sat and talked, Hannah relaxed:
And Deborah helped Kate shuck some corn (which she picked from her garden THAT afternoon….YUM):
while I snapped pictures.
Deborah brought gifties as did Hannah…. but I was having so much fun relaxing at that point I forgot to take pictures…. you can see pics of the wonderful journal books Deborah made on her blog, here.
After our group photo, Kate took us to a spot where flotsam and jetsam…AND old shards of glass and pottery gather… Hannah found an old bottle (which of course I forgot to take a photo!). This is a photo of the bay:
and walking down to the access path:
That’s Kate’s daughter on her back, a neighbor on the far right, and Kate’s son leading the troupe.
I’m always looking for patterns…for quilting, for design….so I got a nice shot of the water:
I’ll be back tomorrow with the evening fun, and the next day with our Mandala workshop!