Thor made his feelings clear this morning as Pauline and I set off for our morning walk around the lake on our own … apparently he would have slowed us down and had done his circuit with Kris much earlier. 
The latest additions to the Holst farmyard are being nursed to point of lay in the greenhouse and were not too happy being disturbed for my camera.
Our next stop was the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park to see a unique collection of Amish Quilts made by women in Pennsylvania & the Midwest from the 1880’s to 1940’s. The quilts are traditionally patched, with designs like log cabin, 9-patch, rail track & double wedding ring, in plain, mostly dark, cotton fabric. The hand quilting takes the form of simple lines on the patched squares and complex flowing designs on the plain borders or centres. Two quilts had the year the quilt was made stitched into the design –quite hard to see. Piano key borders were popular; one quilter had re-used blue chambray from a previous quilt without removing the original quilting. As expected, the stitches were small and very even –the hallmark of superior hand quilting and some has used trapunto stitching to give a subtle 3-D effect. We were told that each quilt probably took 50 hours to patch and another 50 to quilt ... amazing.
After lunch we went to the top of the Museum Tower for a view in the round of the city, including red Golden Gate Bridge
and the ocean front.
Finally, a tour of the galleries showing North and South American Art packed with artefacts and contemporary work from the Arctic, Mexico, Ecuador and further south. With no flash my camera doesn’t do justice to this bowl of blown glass fruit …
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