Map Quilts

Pondering the idea of making a small quilt of a map of our area.  Maybe a topo map, or road map, or or or...  Looking for ideas across the internet this morning, I found some wonderful things!

Scrappy maps in vivid color like "I Left My Heart in Africa" from WorldQuilter

Topographic Quilt of Julian, California.  One of Haptic Lab's fabulous Neighborhood Quilts

And the most stunning quilts by Leah Evans...wonderful interpretations of topographic maps and aerial views in fabric. 



Leah Evans' "Tundra" quilt.  See more at DesignBoom and Leah Evans Textiles



Library of Dust

What a story, heard this  on the local NPR station this afternoon. 

These corroded old canisters hold the unclaimed ashes of patients from an Oregon psychiatric hospital.  The holding area where these canisters was kept flooded repeatedly over the years and the canisters have become corroded and encrusted by a variety of minerals.   A wonderful photographer, David Maisel, has an exhibit of these canisters, which are really quite stunning. http://www.davidmaisel.com/works/lod.asp

David Maisel photograph "Library of Dust 1210"