Since I was in Time Machine anyway, thought I would explore what I was sewing back in
November of Another Year
Flashback 2012!
I like purple. I wanted to play with purple.
Gray was the color of the 2012 Quiltinternt. So gray and purple the quilt was to be!
Everyone in Quiltinternt 2012 was quilting on their own home machines while I was only stacking my tops into a huge pile. It was time to learn to quilt! I tried "Quilt As You Go". Less successfully than the first time I tried it, it is sad to say. I didn't follow directions...I just made them up as I worked.
Then I went to Craftsy. Craftsy and Leah Day was a great/bad place to start.
Wonderful instruction, convenient, inspiring but overwhelmingly small scale and perfect. Those last two are just not ME! I asked questions, explained my problems and GOT ANSWERS! Happy dance! Still loving Craftsy for those very reasons.
In 2012, my best friend from college was back in the South. I took that first quilted quilt with me for our meet up that November to Appling, GA. as a gift.
We talked about life with 50 peeking around the corner, drank cold beer on the deck in the autumn chill, and I made a new boyfriend named Beau. Alas, there was no future with Beau. He is far too tall for me, but remains crazy about me to this day... or just crazy.
Many of my quilts are grief creations. More on that another day. This purple quilt was to become a grief quilt after the fact. Christy died unexpectedly in May 2014. Her folks still have the quilt (and Beau) to grieve with.
Veal Girl - My college roommate, my high school running buddy for the glory days of senior year, and my fellow adventurer into Hot'lanta - 1980's style. Challenges of GT, first jobs, loss of identity, rebuilding identities...so much shared, understood and laughter through it all. And my first quilted quilt. I hope she felt my hugs to her soul under the purple quilt. I miss you so much "dah'lin".
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