Triplets - From One Blog to Three!

For the four of you who occasionally follow this sporadic blog, I'm dividing it into three blogs:

• Donna Van Cleve - the blog connected to my Web site that will be related to my books and writing in general. I may put in my two cents about anything here, but the focus will be on writing: http://blog.donnavancleve.com/
• Shelf Mouse - will have library-related entries from now on. I'll start with the current display on both blogs, but will post future displays and library-related articles on Shelf Mouse: http://shelfmouse.blogspot.com/
• Sisterhood of the Comfy Socks - a blog that will eventually have postings by a group of five special gals: http://comfy-socks.blogspot.com/

More to Come!

The Quilt System

The February display tells the story of how people used quilts to send messages to the runaway slaves traversing the Underground Railroad. For the sign, I used MS Word and went to the Insert tab, Clip Art, and searched each letter individually to create a quilt square look for each letter. Click on each picture for a closer look.

I brought two colorful quilts from home to use as the background and draped on a chair, as well as some quilted placemats and a table runner. I brought out all of the cloth  from the supply room and filled every basket I had on hand to make it look like a sewing room.

I pulled books about slavery and the Underground Railroad to display.