It's been a cold, hard winter and Halloween pattern season at Simplicity has been particularly exhausting as well, so my husband and I took a break in New Orleans last weekend. What a great city to visit!
We spent most of one day out of town to visit a couple plantations. One with an incredible stand of oak trees and the one just above is a traditional Creole style plantation where they gave a terrific tour about the history and a lot about slavery. Really well done, it's called Laura Plantation.
After the two plantations we went on a swamp tour where we saw many, many alligators, turtles ...
even cute and furry animals.
We had the best boat captain. He LOVED animals and took time to hand feed many alligators.
He also had a number of animals on board for people to hold ... EEK! My husband is holding an albino rat snake.
Although reluctant at first, I did hold this one animal, a two year old alligator. He really was pretty sweet, for an alligator. But mostly, he felt kind of cold and leathery. Weird.
Bank in town, I thought I might do some shopping, but 95% of the stores are filled with this kind of party stuff, which I'm not really interested in.
I thought this was kind of pretty, since I've been making tulle skirts and corsets lately.
And, in case you can't tell, those are shoes!!! Fun design. Can't image walking too far in them, though.
But this weekend was also the French Quarter Festival, which featured the food and music of New Orleans at many indoor and outdoor stages. Amazing.
This was a great place to work on my quilt blocks while listening to music.
I assembled 5 of the 8 blocks I cut out while on this trip. Of course these are just the inner parts of the circular blocks for this quilt. Now I think I have enough finished to look for the fabrics needed to join all the multi colored sections together.
That will be the topic for my next blog.
That will be the topic for my next blog.
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