A moment of twee-ness! I grew up with the 'Little House...' tv series and today is the 148th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author. So, I'm going to read the first one in the series tonight, published in 1932:
Less twee and far more accurate and properly researched will be Pioneer Girl, the real memoir of Wilder's life that was rejected as 'not suitable for young children'. It was published last Autumn by the South Dakota Historical Society Press but is consistently out of stock. It is on Amazon though but it's quite expensive at around £25. Being cheap keen to use my local Library, I've reserved it.
Then I thought, I should make a Little House quilt............Nah......a modern Dear Jane would be better. But how to do it? I don't want it to be pictorial but a block design from a modern icon, logo, whatever. You know, like the Corns and Beans block doesn't actually look like corns and beans - that sort of thing. Need to think on a bit.......
I really know how to burn the candle at both ends: curled up with a childrens' book on a Saturday night..........sigh.......
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