I, the most delinquintest of the resident bloggers...

Hello all--yes, I exist as more than merely an administrator. But I'm not exactly in the analytical mood for book reviews so... I'll begin by explaining the title of this post.

If you haven't read "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers," you should. But that isn't where the title for this post came from. It actually came from another book that Maria von Trapp wrote. The name of the book is "Maria" and is an autobiographical look at her life more individually. I'd strongly suggest that book as well. Part of the book tells of her time at the convent before she went to live with the von Trapps. She was extremely clumsy (she said so herself so that isn't an "uncharitable speech"--for those of you who have read the Anne of Green Gables books) and anytime any one of the nuns (or those not-yet-nuns--I forget their exact title) broke something, they had to stand before the entire convent and humbly say, "I, the most unworthy member of this community, have wasted common good." She had to recite this so often that she decided to add some life to the recitation. After breaking a plate, she took it and glued it back together, broke out the center of it and when it came time for her to penitently say her speech, she held the plate up, framing her face, and said"I, the most unworthy member of this community, have wasted common good."

So, that's the story behind the title for this post... but I'm not going to frame my face and make an apologetic speech the next time I see one of you. So sorry.

Anyway, the real reason for this post was to show you something of beauty... my next project. In my next life, that is. I have enough projects for this one.

One of the mothers whose children I teach is a math genius and seamstress extraordinaire (the kind who drafts her own patterns--so, if there are those of you who do that who read this, you are seamstresses extraordinaire too; either that or you belong to the "real" seamstress class sort of like a "real" musician {according to earlier time period standards} could compose, improvise, perform, etc.) who also happens to quilt. The below picture is of her first foray into the world of Bargello quilting.





That, my friends, is something I would like to create. But I'd probably go with something more along these lines as far as the color scheme goes.




So, that's my dreamy sort of project. Christmas break came to mind but I'm not promising myself that it will happen--we're just in the dreamy stage right now...

Until next year (at which time I will post next :P)!