Thanks for all the comments in the last post about my grandma. You are all very kind. I had a very slow quiet weekend of sewing and listening to NPR and it was exactly what I needed.
I'm working on a quilt square for a quilt show and I am really enjoying the process. Right now all I want to do is quilt. I used a mix of cottons and linens for the natural colors, kimono fabrics for the blue and red and I even made some of my own fabric by printing some old scanned journal pages onto fabric (I bought the printable fabric here if you are interested).
The journal is one that I bought a long time ago on Ebay and have used in lots of my art over the years. It is a young boy's account of a trip to Japan in the 1940s and some of it is written by hand while other parts are typed. I love old faded journals and how they look as a graphic element in my designs so I have started to scan pages of the journal before it completely disintegrates.
I think I am finally ready to make a quilt for me and the Mr. We deserve it!
