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Ponte Vedra Recorder · October 29, 2015
UFOs in the Quilting World
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St. Johns County
Youth Basketball Clinics
The St. Johns County Parks and
Recreation Department is offering
instructional basketball clinics to
teach fundamentals of the sport including basic skills, sportsmanship,
and team building, and prepare
players for the March 2016 Youth
Basketball League.
Clinic practices and scrimmages
will be held from Nov. 16 through
Jan. 30.
Practices will take place at the
Ketterlinus Gym, 60 Orange St., St.
Augustine and scrimmages will be
held at the Solomon Calhoun Center, 1300 Duval St., St. Augustine.
Registration is $30 for the duration of the clinic and will continue
through Nov. 13. Forms can be
found online at www.sjcfl.us/Recreation/Youth/basketballclinic.aspx.
Registration for the recreational
basketball league will be posted in
January 2016.
For additional information, call
(904) 209-0377 or (904) 209-0386.
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Bonnie Talley
Quiltlady
Having just returned from Florence,
Italy, that is Michelangelo country, I
believe I now know about the greatest UFO on the planet. UFO in quilting
language means Un-Finished Objects.
I think Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pieta,
pictured here, is the classiest UFO to be
found anywhere. It is housed in Sforza
Castle in Milan, Italy. The castle itself is
awesome.
For ones of you not as familiar as
you should be about this famous sculpturer, let me clue you in. Michelangelo
was born in the Republic of Florence
on March 6, 1475 and grew to be the
greatest sculpturer, architect, and artist
of his time. At the age of 22 he began
work on the first Pieta that is now to
be seen in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
While in Florence we visited museums
that housed several of his works. Seeing the colossal statue of David that he
carved in 1504 is breath taking.
He started the Rondanini Pieta in
1550 and worked on it until the last
days of his life. The sculpture is of the
Virgin Mary mourning over the body
of Christ. He hacked at the block of
marble until his dying days. He died
on February 18, 1564 at the age of 88,
leaving the Rondanini Pieta unfinished.
The picture of the full Pieta and the
complete life of Michelangelo may be
found on Google.
Driving from Milan to Florence we
saw acres and acres of cut marble and
granite ready for export. Some of the
finest stone is found in that area.
When quilters get together, they tend
to discuss their UFOs anytime they
get the chance. Their UFOs are their
“unfinished objects” known as quilting
projects. Some quilters have numerous
UFOs but I have only a couple that I really want to finish in this lifetime! I have
always tried to finish any quilting project while it is important to me. Once I
put it away, it is hard to take it out and
work on it again. Lesson learned.
On Oct. 22, the Ocean Wave Quilters
Guild met for an afternoon of cutting
and doing the beginning sewing on the
beautiful “heart pillows” that they will
complete on Feb. 11, 2016 at the “Work
Your Heart Out” day at The Plantation
dining room in Ponte Vedra. The quilters along with residential members of
The Plantation will finish the pillows by
stuffing them with polyester fiberfil and
finishing sewing the side seam. Once
finished the pillows are delivered to the
Hospice facilities of North Florida. This
project has been ongoing since 2007.
Every year more and more people
pitch in to help with this worthy project. Hopefully, after your reading this
article, you will put the date on your
2016 calendar to be a helper. No sewing experience is needed. More about
this will be in future articles.
The Ocean Wave Quilters Guild
meets the second Friday of every
month at the The Players Community
Center on Landrum Ln., off CR-210, at
10:00 – 12:00. Visit them anytime. You’ll
be so welcome!
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