Ah yes. There comes a time when you need to slow down, when you start smelling the roses, when you need a cane to walk.

NOT!

Libbie and Arlene decided to do a quilting project together. Collaborating using Internet web pages and via E-Mail, they set their minds to work on creating "A MidSummer Nights Dream".

In June 1998, Libbie scanned some magazine photos, collected some snap shots laying around the house of past projects and unfortunately for her got Tom involved with helping share the info with Arlene 500 miles away. Thus was born the National Gallery of Quilting which went overboard on just sharing a few scanned images. Why not share with the world some of the fifty to one hundred quilts that Libbie has had her needle into?????

After viewing some of Libbies' handiwork online and the scans of quilt designs from magazines, Arlene decided on a basic nine patch. Lib made these sketches of possible arrangements of nine patch squares, appropriately named Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.

Arlene chose Tweedle Dee (the left one).

With needle in hand,the piecing progresses over July and August. Lib sews a strip of nine patch squares below. The final result is the two strips in the rightmost photo.

The project is going so well - there is talk of a winter quilt as a natural followup to MidSummer Nights Dream. The current plan is to do Red, Hot and Blue in green and pink. The first of the sketches, Miami Beach, is below. The first Miami Beach block is next to the sketch. Viewing the sketch inspires visions of green palm trees on an art deco neon landscape. The real thing at photo right shows this quilt needs a better name. (Click on the block for detail).

September 1, 1998 - an Update.The cutting is moving along on "Miami Beach". Piles of fabric are appearing everywhere. Each pile counted and labeled.