Talula Gilbert Bottoms and Pasha Bulker

Thanks for reminding me Mereth. Yes, the quilt from my previous post is by Talula Gilbert Bottoms. I had meant to include that in the post but got carried away with adding the photos. (Actually I had enough problems with them that as soon as they were included I shut the whole thing down).

The photo is copied from the book LEGACY: The story of Talula Gilbert Bottoms and Her Quilts by Nancilu B Burdick. This is an inspirational book about Talula's life. To me it seems very hard and depressing but her quiltmaking was her light! I would have to agree. Although luckily my life is not that hard.

This is my first block. I don't think that I will put any borders on it. At the moment I am really liking the look of blocks only on quite a few quilts. Isn't it funny how you get a bit of a bee in your bonnet about a particular style for a while and then you go onto something new.

On Saturday we thought we would go for a bit of a drive to Mark's parents at Maitland since the wet weather put an end to the girls netball day. I wasn't too distressed. Of course we had to go via Busy Needles at Singleton and the Bike Shop at Cessnock. Both his passion and mine.

We gathered up the in laws and drove to check out the Pasha Bulker which was beached on Nobbys Beach after the storm on the long weekend. The photo does not do it justice. It is massive! It is a huge tourist attraction but is causing huge problems on how they are going to get it off the beach.