Turkey Tracks: December 13, 2010
Steve Melchiskey’s Earring Holder
I’m a member of Coastal Quilters, a chapter in the Maine State Pinetree Quilters’ Guild. CQ is based in Camden, Maine, and it is a lovely group of women. I treasure knowing each and every one of them. They are generous to a fault, astonishingly talented, and devoted to this quilting group. We learn a lot from each other.
Our spouses are no slouches either. Many of them help us set up our meeting space at the Lion’s Club each month, which involves putting up lots of tables and placing chairs around them. And, for our annual fundraising auction, one spouse–Steve Melchiskey–made several, very clever, pierced earring holders, using frames and window screen. I had been searching for something to organize my earrings–especially since I have a new-found passion–making earrings with the help of the staff at Aboca Beads in Damariscotta, Maine, about 40 minutes down the road.
Here’s my terrific earring holder, and my heartfelt thanks to Steve Melchiskey for supporting Coastal Quilters:
Look at all those earrings, both VERY old and new! The top three on the left are made from folding clay by the most amazing artist who displays at Alewives Fabrics in Damariscotta Mills. How does she make such intricate pictures???? Some readers will recognize earrings they have given to me. Some of the earrings I remade from old, outdated earrings, giving them new life. One of the amber-like ones on the lower left got dropped and cracked. John glued it for me, and I love it still.
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