Yesterday I went into the aus embassy for a few hours to join the professional hangers at work putting up my quilts, sorting out the final decisions of where to hang each piece, and deciding that one piece just did not fit well with all the others; and since I have not heard today I can only deduce that all is finished and in hand for the opening tomorow evening, wednesday 1st. i took some people at work shots and will take others and put them up for readers to see, and will give an account of how things went.

Before that I spent several days out in Ohio at Athens, where the Studio Art Quilters Association had their conference and the opening of Quit National 05 took place also. Many marvellous quilts, and this time only one or two I felt did not belong, and not too many that seem to be a rehash of previously exhibited works – but there are always a few – or maybe I am just missing something. It was terrific to meet with several people I have not seen in many years, and meet people whose work I have been admiring in catalogues and on line in that time. The conference program was absolutely full and in manyways useful.

So, tomorrow morning I repack, because after the Opening tomorrow I head out to Colorado for the Rooted in Tradition symposium at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, plus a few days of hanging out with family and friends there before returning to Maryland for the public floor talk at the embassy thursday 9th at noon, and then on the weekend I depart to return ‘home’ to Uruguay.