One way to celebrate national holidays . . .
. . . is by making something. I came home from my recent trip to Tennessee and Alabama (via Georgia) with a couple of new t-shirts and some inspiration. At the Shakerag knitting get-away, besides knitting ideas (which were there in good supply) there is also a lot of Alabama Chanin style sewing and t-shirt embellishment in the crowd. The other inspiration came from visiting Montgomery Square, a new memorial to what they call the Montgomery Decade (1955-1965), which began with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. We're posing in front of the sculpture of Rosa Park's hands holding her arrest number. The decade included the march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. After the horrors of Bloody Sunday, the march was finally allowed to leave Selma on March 21, 1965. And on March 24, the people entered Montgomery (the Alabama state capitol) and walked right down the street on the right side of this pictures, to the steps of the state capitol. On Juneteenth, I was inspi...
