My only living sibling( 4 1/2 years my senior) found that she must have cataract surgery. For goodness sakes, you would think it was open heart surgery. Never mind that I had cataract surgery ( a true miracle surgery as far as I am concerned) in 2005. As she told me in one of her many calls yesterday "Yes, but that was you having yours done...this is ME I am talking about!" I find her amusing in that no one has ever had anything to equal her maladies.
I am indeed poking fun at her. Do it all the time, though to her face. In truth, siblings are some of our best friends(can be) They know us as well as anyone, perhaps better than we know ourselves.
Since I have no px of accomplished stitching yesterday, perhaps you would like to see one of my very early attempts at applique. We still had the Lake House when this was made. I would leave it down there & only worked on it when there. It took probably a year to do since it was sporadic at best to get to stitch. Some of our happiest years were spent at that small little house.
This was made in 2002. It reminds me of carpets of wildflowers Nature scatters across her meadows in the spring, our first flowers of the season after the winter passes. I hope you might enjoy a 'quilt from the past'.
This is one of my favorite quilts & one of the few I have kept. I really taxed my brain to learn to do consistent blocks, circles & then tried to hone my skills at hand quilting. It is full of mistakes but I really learned a lot on this quilt. I seem to learn on each quilt I make & it is a good thing to always be learning in something I love to do.
"Wildflowers In Farm Meadows", needle turn applique, hand quilted, queen sized.
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