Quilt Making is Fun and a Joy for Eyes

Once I was visiting an old lady’s house here, in Calgary. It was a house as a regular house like everybody else has. Nothing special until I ran into one wall ornament. It was a quilt, home-made, neatly sewn in a big joyful frame made in a quilt style too. I started to look more closely and coming back and forth, from the different angles trying to grasp what was everything about. At long last I asked the lady: “I’ve never seen such a quilt before although my Mom was making a lot of them, and I remember her beautiful designs for them, my Dad helped her in this. Did you make it yourself?”.

“Yes, indeed. Nobody gave me a hand. I have designed myself and sewed  too. It was my whole life hobby. Creating the quilts I am relaxing and cheer my eyes with the variety of colors.” she answered.

“What is this? It looks like pictures of people on the fabric instead of normal material patches. This seems as if it is a photo gallery on the wall. Who are those people on the quilt?” I asked in a surprised way, pointing at the images on the quilt.

“ All of them are my family members at all times and events.” she responded. “I put about 1000 pictures on fabric patches and made this quilt approximately for one year, including material frame design”.

“It is a real beauty!” I complimented her.

Let’s do something like this by our hands and for the inspiration I propose to look at my photo gallery: “Quilts –  a Joy for the Eyes”.