I just can't seem to keep this blog going. How did I do it every day for so many years? I think my life is now so boring and limited I can't think of anything to say most days. I take the neighbor boys to school only on Tuesdays now. Immanuel goes to high school and must be there by 7am. Julian is in fourth grade and I drop him off at 7:15am. And sometimes, like today, I have a nap when I get home. Old age is creeping up! Have a lunch date tomorrow, we are going to our favorite spot, Fitness Grill in Yorba Linda. Then I hope to sew in the afternoon.
I usually post TCQC quilts on Sunday, but I hadn't taken the pictures before the sun went down. So, I'm showing these three today. They are very special quilts because my SDiego friend Andrea Bacal made them and the images are actually my hats. She needed to meet a Challenge for Canyon Quilters with the theme "From Above". She called and asked if I would send her some pictures of my hats, taken "from above". I took a half a dozen and these are those she chose from that selection. The cream hat with the shiny green bow she submitted to the Challenge. I casually mentioned about 50 thousand times that I would like to have the other two. In 2020 she finished them and they look fantastic hung together on my cream walls. They are fused with the raw edges stitched and she has done wonderful quilting to indicate the texture of each hat. I think her use of colored pencils to show the bow and shadows is inspired. They all have the same background and the same fabric on the back.
3 comments:
Andrea has represented your hats so realistically, Del. A great selection and a wonderful way to preserve memories of them. Did you take the photos on that fabric? Times change, especially if we socialise less which seems to be the case for some people as we age.
I always enjoy reading your blog. Thankyou, Gayle in NZ
I love these quilts! What an inspired idea! Cheers to Andrea.
Carol
These are just wonderful! What a creative person she is.
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