All posts by Sherry

Big Red

Quilting

December 2024

My version of Old Blue by Laura Heine

I started this in 2019 at a Guild weekend workshop. It was set aside until this year when it popped up as my August UFO. I was determined to get it done.

This is the truck in Elizabeth & Ray’s garage that inspired me.

There is something on this for everyone. The truck, obviously, for Elizabeth and Ray, a cat for Madison, butterflies for Asher, lizards for Gavin and daisies in the wheel wells for Elizabeth.

There is even a squirrel – the nemesis in Elizabeth’s garden.

This piece will be entered into the 2015 Quilt Show.

Up Ghost River

Books

Author: Edmund Metatawabin

During a recent concert the performer, John Wort Hannom, mentioned this book in relation to a song he had written (Man of God). The library had a copy so I borrowed it.

The memoir is a shocking revelation of the abuses the author and others faced while in residential school. The book doesn’t go into great detail but you certainly get the message. It also outlines the problems our First Nations face under the Indian Act; a good insight into how the government continues to hold sway over their lives.

I don’t generally like a memoir that is written with dialogue; I find I have to keep reminding myself that the book is not a story. The messages in this one are important enough that I could overlook that.

If you aren’t inclined to read the book, please check out the song Man of God by John Wort Hannom.

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