What I'm Keeping

There were many treasures in the attic--I guess we got to the stuff that wasn't stored in cardboard boxes. Don't store your stuff in cardboard boxes; you might as well just throw it away now. It will save your kids the trouble of doing it later... Also, don't save magazines, textbooks, photographs of things with no people (except your house; keep those because things change and your kids lived there and are nostalgic about how it used to be). There were other things that were on my list of things you should pitch, but I can't remember them now. Oh, wrap fragile things carefully; don't just stuff them in plastic boxes.

These are the textiles that made the trip with me.

Look at all that quilting. What work! Though the stitches are a little big for my mother--purposefully?


These molas are souvenirs of a family trip that included the San Blas Islands, where the Cuna Indians weild their magic needles. I think we're going to frame the masks for the map room and maybe make pillows of the squares. I may have to add some stitching to the parrot on the lower left.