June/July 2006 Challenge: Mini Quilts for Alzheimer's Research! (Page 3)

This is my interpretation of the toll Alzheimer's takes. The brain gradually grows dimmer as time progresses. The Peace Dove blocks in the corners represent the person's soul escaping their body and reaching out to others.

My mother-in-law Fran has Alzheimer's. She used to love to be in a garden surrounded by butterflies. I designed this quilt in the peaches and oranges she loved.

For this quilt, I first used a strutting rooster I'd already drawn. When I checked the print display, I realized that I didn't want to applique 37 tiny pieces of fabric in a 6"x7" space. So I drew this little guy with fewer pieces. The pattern for him works a lot better this small. I am in the process of making this in fabric and I plan to substitute feathery thread stitching for the scalloped edge of the wings.

One of Hoffman's Bali Handpaint fabrics works magic for color. The borders are paper-pieced and easy.

I drew the center block 'Fanned Points' in the autmn of 2002, about a month after I updated to EQ5. My ability to think of a spiffy name for the block was a bit limited but I sure was proud of it.

I've printed the pattern out for sewing -- about time, huh? -- using paper piecing for the oval portion, the dreaded curved piecing to add the corner units, and an appliqued circle to hide my sewing sins in the center.

I love making small quilts!

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."
James Russell Lowell (1819-91), U.S. poet, editor.

Please see this Quilt and the next one without Patch Lines.

"The Mind...

Not Chaos, not
The darkest pit of lowest Erebus,
Nor aught of blinder vacancy,
scooped out
By help of dreams - can breed
such fear and awe
As fall upon us often when we look
Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man."

Paula Nadelstern Fabrics

Sheboygan, Wi

I love this border. It reminds me of a ribbon wrapping all around the quilt. I have used this border on the first signature quilt that my Mom and I made . We presented to my Great Aunt at our family reunion. Very easy and fun to make. I placed two blocks in variation into the center to give the quilt a "POP".

All I did was take a couple blocks then cut and reshaped a them for the outer border blocks. Was very interesting to design a mini quilt.

Used the Pallette of the month called Blueberry Pie 112004

Used the Pallette of the month called Blueberry Pie 112004

A friend of mine who is an accomplished musician has Alzheimers. This quilt has been designed with her in mind. The large black circles or holes represent the loss of memory - sometimes the music is there and sometimes it is gone.

Rotterdam
the Netherlands

Rotterdam
the Netherlands