The arrival of American Patchwork and Quilting magazine is a highlight of the month. It manages to be both practical and inspirational as well a simply pretty to look through. One of the features each month is a profile of a quilter, complete with many photos of his/her finished projects and workspace.
Pictures and descriptions of a quilter's workspace are always exciting to look at - creativity extends to the environment as well as the projects. It's helpful to see how other people organize the multitude of supplies that fill most quilt workshops.
But this month, AP&Q went just a little too far in their photography. In the middle of a picture of designer Monica Solorio-Snow's workshop is a sewing machine, clearing displaying one of the hopey-changey stickers from the last presidential election.
Shame on you, AP&Q, for not airbrushing that out. If it were an "I like Ike" sticker it would be different, but allowing the clearly identifiable symbol of a declared presidential candidate seems to run awfully close to political endorsement. It's a little thing, but a little thing at the top of a slippery slope.
Maybe it's a good thing my current subscription runs out in October 2012.
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