I love Irene Williams' "Housetop Variation" from the Quilts of Gee's Bend. I always wish I had something patriotic to wear on voting days - a crazy fair isle vote! vote! vote! vest with some suffragette silhouettes. Maybe I could crank out some vote!vote!vote! socks by November?
To celebrate this important voting day with song, listen to a bit of Schoolhouse Rock's Sufferin' Till Sufferage - listen to them all!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
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VOTE SOCKS!!!!! What a great idea!!! Wonderful in fact!
Of course November MIGHT be chilly enough for a scarf in a lacy pattern of suffragettes!!! That could work too!
singing schoolhouse rock poetry mittens! i'm just a bill, yes i'm only a bill...
Lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here!
Indubitably,
c.
Gosh that adverb thing is surely cool.
I was too old for Schoolhouse Rock (sob!).
But I was the right age to have had a pair of ELEPHANT LEG PANTS in that vote fabric. 1972? Pretty sure. By 1976 I was wearing unhemmed jeans. Every time I see that quilt I remember elephant legs, one of the few fads of the 70s to not be revived (or at least not widely revived). (No pun intended.)
xox Kay
I love this quilt (and pretty much all the other Gee's Bend Quilts).
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