Yesterday was Steph’s Martha Stewart debut. She looked beautiful, well, she is beautiful. The segment was way shorter than when it was rehearsed as Martha does like to ramble on. If you would like to see the beginning segment with Steph and Maria, there is a YouTube video on Martha’s Blog. Don’t ask me how many times I have watched and smiled!! I think the appearance on the show was great as their book has jumped way up in the rankings on Amazon. This morning it was around 4000 and now it is 2907.

Last night, M & M and their Dad came over for dinner because Steph was not getting in until late at night. They watched the show that I had Tivoed. As soon as his Mom was done, Miles was off, but Mia watched the whole show. Her favorite segment was Eddie who used flea market finds to make things.

Today was the monthly STASH meeting at Beth’s house. She made us a sublime lunch of veggies from her prolific garden. Even the dessert was a vegetable. It was a zucchini crisp – really – it tasted like apples! The zucchini was peeled and seeded and cooked in lemon juice.

Terry and I brought our fabric teapots that we made for a High Fiber Diet Challenge. I made mine last Tuesday, when I was coming down with the strep throat. I was sure I had a virus and would be better to go to the meeting the next day, not. I forgot to take a photo of it before Reva picked it up to take for the reveal and I just got it back today. I basically drew a teapot on some Timtex, cut it out, fused and quilted some silk scraps and then stitched the sides together with a satin stitch.

Okay, here is where the ridiculous meets the sublime. Terry does meticulous work. She is very talented at creating wonderful 3-D fabric creations.  Here are our teapots together. Her lid has a lovely box attachment that fits into the body of the teapot, perfectly. Mine just lies on top!

I was so verklempt about Steph’s TV appearance that I forgot to go to WW. I am going to try to weigh in tomorrow, AND I must get back to work in the studio.

Well, I made it through Steve’s 50th High School Reunion, barely. I didn’t lose him to any old girlfriends, not that one didn’t try! I had to take a nap every afternoon and sort of plodded through the festivities. His classmates think he is married to a very mellow, well-behaved woman — Ha!, little do they know. I finished the Z pack (antibiotic) yesterday, and I already have a call in to the Dr. I fear that it is coming back.

We had a wild ride from Indiana to O’Hare airport yesterday. It looked like this most of the time as we drove through the remnants of Hurricane Ike.

We had to leave one Interstate because a levee broke and there was flooding. The traffic jams were incredible, but the intrepid Mr C got us through the mess and safely at the airport where we discovered that our flight was delayed by an hour.

This is what Chicago looked like as we drove through:

I found some good news when I arrived home. My Indigo Construction was accepted into Quilts=Art=Quilts, opening on November 1 at the Schweinfurth in Auburn, NY. I am very excited about this. The jurors were Cynthia Corbin (whose work I adore), Bruce Hoffman (director of Snyderman-Works Galleries in Philadelphia) and Denyse Schmidt (who has make a splash in the commercial quilt world, with her contemporary bed quilts).You can see the quilt on my website by clicking on Abstract/Geometric work, above.

Here are a few more fun photos from Millenium Park. I really would loved to have spent more time in Chicago.

Kids young and old enjoyed wading in the Crown Fountain pool

Some sculpture:

I would like to hang some fabric on here to rust!!

I have more exciting news, but that will wait until tomorrow.