| Me: Wednesday: Cut more red stars. Bank, Duck, dinner by the bay. Nightmares got me up at 3. Weeks of nightmares. Weeks of waking at 3. Thursday: A cold, chilly Spring morning. Off to “Training” around eight. Pete will be there at the same time. Misery loves company. G: He’s still singing. The “Happy” light really works on his SAD. We ill know more about re-financing later today. Dinner out before Duck. Poked among the reds after dinner yesterday. Work: Padre’s 2008 Schedule. |
One little old lady’s family donated giant volumes of fabric to the AIDS Quilt. She hadn’t spoken to her husband in years. Gee, I wonder what he did; she sewed. Some of these fabrics were my friend Harriette’s fabrics. When she first began quilting, she washed each piece and hemmed it the moment it arrived in her house. I have a few of those so clearly hers. Some were mine, one piece even from the sixties, some a daughters from her years in Hawaii. Other little bits evoke whole decades just with their textures.
I smile as I sort. Originally, I planned a multicolored quilt, now it is to be a red on red flag to wave at the bull. Today I sorted through the many multicolored boxes of fabrics G had hauled way up here to the computer room. I laid aside the brilliant reds, muted reds, even a darkened red or two to play with later. There is a whole box of greyed reds and terra cotta reds that were so popular in the nineties also. I mix them stirring carefully…like among like, a twinkle here and sparkle there to catch the eye. Béarnaise for the soul.
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The Milky Way block or the Friendship Star variation block are very old patterns seen in quilts dating from
the 1700’s says AllExperts.
AllExperts Friendship Star
Block Central: Friendship Star
Milky Way
Golly, that milky way piece is sure pretty. I was wondering what red on red would look like. I'd only seen white on white before. This is really going to work I think! Makes me begin to itch to finish my quilt (3 squares to go plus piecing the squares together and adding the batting and back)!
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ReplyDeleteNow I know what sort of photos you will choose for your collages. If I was to make a quilt I would choose new fabric. Don't know why. I can intellectually understand the beauty of old material lending meaning and memory to the quilt. But, in my heart I'd like to start off with a clean slate and see how each neutral element changes in colour and form.
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