How many black people can quilt?

All of them. They are much brighter than you, obviously.

The brown, yellow and pink people can also all quilt. The jury is still out on the little green people with purple hair, due to lack of evidence either way.

Here is the latest Troll recipe from your R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls:

Troll Pie!

First catch your troll: lie in wait behind the dustbin with a shovel. When the troll shambles past, whack it on the kneecaps until it falls over. Wrap it closely in an old tarp until you need it: the late snow we all have will help to keep it fresh.

Then take a large well greased pie dish and fill it with:

1 large onion, sliced and fried 4 rashers of bacon, grilled and chopped 1 large egg, beaten with 1 large pack of Very Low Fat cream cheese and a teacup of milk

Over the mixture, place a good covering of pre-rolled flaky pastry. Remember to cut a steam hole in the middle of the top.

Place in the centre of a HOT oven (about 200 C) for 35 mins, until the pastry has really puffed up and the filling is cooked and set. Serve with lots of peas!

Troll? Oh... Um... Drag the corpse out with the trash - the bin men won't care if you leave it well wrapped! And you didn't want that ole tarp anyway, did you? Way to heavy to quilt!

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evidence

I am purple with green hair, and I can quilt.....

Helen Howes Our Lady of the Biscuits

I thought perhaps rewording the subject might be in order. I don't want to "feed" this troll, but don't like seeing the subject line either.

-- Alice in NJ, Royal Cybrarian

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"AliceW" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

There's nothing wrong with saying "black people". I swear people are way too sensitive.

I have no objection to the words. I object to how they were used. No one ever accused me of being "way too sensitive".

True - however .... It was the context that was offensive!! It implies that people of a certain color are unable to do certain things. Guess they haven't seen those beautiful pieces of art done by those ladies in Mississippi. I just saw a PBS special about these ladies and their art quilts that are bringing thousands of dollars into their little rural and impoverished community. Jane Fonda owns one of them. Large stitches, crooked seams, large blocks of colored fabric made from used clothing but put together with heart and an eye for color. But the beautiful story was about these mostly uneducated and unsophisticated women and their lives. I wish I could remember the name of the special. It was named after the small town/area where these ladies all lived.

Gee's Bend

I saw that show on PBS and I'm glad I taped it, just wonderful! Incredibly talented, artistically expressive women of great character and strength. Here's their website

Val

That's the one! Whatta ya wanna bet that none of the fabric used in their quilts come from fancy dancy designers? LOL. I've bought a lot of the designer fabrics and loved every FQ but there is just something about the heart that goes into these beautiful old quilts of our ancestors. These quilts have been traveling the art museums and the museums bring these ladies by bus to the museum to meet those lucky enough to see the display. The ladies sing beautiful old spirituals to entertain. Just absolutely stunning and heartwarming. There is a book by the same name published by the man who discovered these ladies & their quilts.

I think what the gathered fabrics have is heart, and memories. I read a story once about a woman who made very lovely quilts, but was never able to bring home a ribbon with them. She wondered why, asking the Amish woman who did her quilting, what she was missing. The quilter soon found out that all the fabric was bought new, and while the quilts were technically lovely they lacked that elusive element of history, and a personal attachment to the fabric, and she encouraged the story teller to start incorporating bits and scraps that meant something to her into future quilts. Im sure you can guess the end of this story. The woman started, slowly at first, to add the richness of family memories to her quilts, daughter's dress, leftovers from a treasured quilt, and before long her quilts reflected the love she put into them, and they soon brought home ribbons. This lovely tale has stuck with me for years because it reminds me that for me, quilts arent just about matching seam points and matching fabrics, but about memories, and keeping warm. :-) Diana