Maybe it is time to have a complete overhaul. here in the southern hemisphere Spring is dancing on our doorsteps.
What a wonderful start it has been - cold fronts and all but one thing remains - the gardens are looking fantastic.
I have been making a quilt for a lady I worked with over the past 9 years. I did get her interested in quilting but I don't think she ended up with the same passion as me. However she did start to develop a healthy stash and passed most of this to me with a request that I make her a quilt.
I did start one last year and then stalled - something was not quite right.
Recently I have acquired two books by Camille Roskelly and in her latest one there was this glorious large quilt made up of only 16 blocks. Today I finished the blocks and tomorrow I will put them together.
I will post photos tomorrow as this quilt looks stunning. It is in classic blue and white and I cannot wait to load it on my frame and get into the negative spaces.
As I was completing these blocks today I looked around my work space and decided I really must complete the many almost finished tops as well as half completed.
I am also a fan of scrap quilts and have saved almost every piece of what I think is useable fabric over the past 30 years.
I am setting myself a challenge over the next year - how many quilts can I make with what I have.
I will document this process and post hopefully each day so it will be like a diary.
Keep coming back to see how I am going.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Dedicated to Robert
It was never my intention to let things pass me by.
However back in February life seemed to be perfect. I was working on creating my Etsy business, busy creating fabrics and other quilted treasures.
I was back living in a climate with four seasons which was wonderful.
I was spending time with my son who was going through some difficult times. His wife had decided to leave him the day before we arrived in Adelaide.
Christmas and his birthday in February were challenging as his wife was being particularly difficult in allowing him access to see his 6 year old daughter.
She filed for custody without giving my son the opportunity to discuss anything.
What followed was a difficult time of seeing lawyers, going to court where regular access to his daughter was granted.
However even though things on the surface appeared to be positive and moving forward it was apparently too much for my son.
Sadly in the early hours of May 24th he chose to take his own life.
You read about the effects this has on a family but it is only when it is your family do you truly understand what a life changing event it is.
We have been slowly getting back on track knowing that we will never be the same or even view life in the same way.
The craft that I enjoyed creating at times becomes too much as one has all that thinking time and your mind always goes back to wondering if you could have done something different.
There are certainly no winners in Suicide and I have since discovered that the way you are treated as being the mother of a person who has taken their own life is vastly different from someone whose child may have died from cancer or a road accident.
There are some fantastic support networks made up of people just like me and it does help to know what other people are dealing with.
And so I dedicate my blog to my son Robert who was just 33 years of age and to all the other people whose lives have been torn apart by this disease.
I have learned a lot about suicide since that day and we need to be more open in acknowledging it as one of the greatest threats to our society. It is growing at a rapid rate and here in Australia 6 people a day take their own lives, five of which are men.
Robert 20 February 1980 - 24 May 2013
However back in February life seemed to be perfect. I was working on creating my Etsy business, busy creating fabrics and other quilted treasures.
I was back living in a climate with four seasons which was wonderful.
I was spending time with my son who was going through some difficult times. His wife had decided to leave him the day before we arrived in Adelaide.
Christmas and his birthday in February were challenging as his wife was being particularly difficult in allowing him access to see his 6 year old daughter.
She filed for custody without giving my son the opportunity to discuss anything.
What followed was a difficult time of seeing lawyers, going to court where regular access to his daughter was granted.
However even though things on the surface appeared to be positive and moving forward it was apparently too much for my son.
Sadly in the early hours of May 24th he chose to take his own life.
You read about the effects this has on a family but it is only when it is your family do you truly understand what a life changing event it is.
We have been slowly getting back on track knowing that we will never be the same or even view life in the same way.
The craft that I enjoyed creating at times becomes too much as one has all that thinking time and your mind always goes back to wondering if you could have done something different.
There are certainly no winners in Suicide and I have since discovered that the way you are treated as being the mother of a person who has taken their own life is vastly different from someone whose child may have died from cancer or a road accident.
There are some fantastic support networks made up of people just like me and it does help to know what other people are dealing with.
And so I dedicate my blog to my son Robert who was just 33 years of age and to all the other people whose lives have been torn apart by this disease.
I have learned a lot about suicide since that day and we need to be more open in acknowledging it as one of the greatest threats to our society. It is growing at a rapid rate and here in Australia 6 people a day take their own lives, five of which are men.
Robert 20 February 1980 - 24 May 2013
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