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“I hate quilting! I hate sewing! I hate anything that has to do with needles and thread!”
Mennonite gal, Nanette Peachey, is a member of the Snyder County Quilting Bee, a group of ladies who sew as a ministry, giving their beautiful hand-made quilts to families with new babies, missionaries, newly-weds, and the needy. But Nanette is a tomboy, who’d rather play softball at church picnics, ride one of her six Tennessee Walking Horses, or just be outside than attend the ladies’ bee every Thursday evening.
With the support of her fiancé, horse breeder Brandon Specht, Nanette resigns from the quilting bee but offers to sew the bindings for all the quilts on her own time. When a gorgeous sateen gold binding that she has finished disappears into thin air, Nanette is baffled and has to start all over, lamenting over the hours of work she has lost.
Nanette receives one of the biggest surprises of her life when her mother and the quilting bee ladies throw a bridal shower for the bride-to-be. The most cherished gift of all is a beautiful tan quilt decorated with an appliqué of a prancing white stallion framed in quilted horseshoes. And what highlights the sewing masterpiece?  The missing gold border that had found its way to Nanette’s mother via Brandon’s scheming behind Nanette’s back.
“I can’t thank you enough for making this quilt and for making today a very special day,” Nanette says to her mother and everyone at the shower. “This quilt is a treasure … and so are all of you.”

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They had no knowledge of what we call perspective, that is, the art of representing a variety of objects on one flat surface, and making them appear to be at different distances from us-and you will see from the illustrations given here that their drawing and their manner of expressing the meaning of what they painted were very crude.

...There are writers who trace the origin and progress of Greek painting from the very earliest times; but I shall begin with Apollodorus, who is spoken of as the first Greek painter worthy of fame, because he was the first one who knew how to make his pictures appear to be real, and to follow the rules of perspective so as to have a background from which his figures stood out, and to shade his colors and soften his outlines.

...We have not space to speak of all the Italian cities in which these remains are discovered, and, as Pompeii is the one most frequently visited and that in which a very large proportion of the ancient pictures have been found, I will give a few illustrations from them, and leave the subject of ancient, mural paintings there.

...The variety of subjects at Pompeii is large: there are landscapes, hunting scenes, mythological subjects, numerous kinds of single figures, such as dancing girls, the hours, or seasons, graces, satyrs, and many others; devotional pictures, such as representations of the ancient divinities, lares, penates, and genii; pictures of tavern scenes, of mechanics at their work; rope-dancers and representations of various games, gladiatorial contests, genre scenes from the lives of children, youths, and women, festival ceremonies, actors, poets, and stage scenes, and last, but not least, many caricatures, of which I here give you an example (Fig.