Quilt Collection.

3-27-11 SHORT HILLS: We both drove down yesterday, and both had nice, uneventful trips. Having left the Arctic behind, we were a bit surprised to see as much new snow here as there is. We were plowed again and have about 25% of the yard covered with an inch or two. It is cold, sunny and windy here.

New blooms: andromeda, vinca minor, more crocus.

Today we went to NYC. We had lunch on Montague St. in Brooklyn Heights with Val, Maggie and Lucy, then walked the Promenade and visited the six new piers on the East River below the Promenade being developed for recreation. The project will be wonderful recapturing of the shore line for peoples’ use since all the shipping has moved to Newark and Elizabeth. The harbor is so busy with ferries and helicopters and commercial shipping and all the bridges and that special statute, you don’t know where to look first.

Judy and I went to the Park Avenue Armory, back in Manhattan, for a huge show of quilts. The show was sponsored by the American Folk Art Museum and displayed the collection of Joanna S. Rose. There are 650 quilts, all red and white, mostly from the 19th Century. The Armory has a huge display space and most of the quilts were hanging in circular arrangements. Each piece was unique and beautifully crafted, but the effect of the massed hanging is stunningly dramatic. The show is there until Wednesday if you can do it.




Each of the hanging quilts that you see is backed by a different one. Below are a couple of many I thought were special.