MEMORIES December

VIVIAN: Making Memories with my Friends

After a workshop with my friends … I thought about making ‘memories’ with these wonderful and creative friends. We meet about once a month and share a technique … something  good to play with. We show our current projects and have a great day!

This project was to work with Inktense Blocks and decorative stitching. We used the blocks for colour, couched heavy decorative cords, used a ‘fancy stitch’, the triple stitch to give a strong line and then made a quilt sandwich that is stitched with metallic thread to hold the layers in place. The little quilt can be used in many ways, including placing in a frame.

CARLA :                     " SHARING MEMORIES WITH MY DAD."

It is good to sit with my dad and try and help him to share the memories of his long life.

Over a cup of tea on one of my visits we talked about what has happened the past few months in our lives. Before we realized we went more and more back in time from there.

He needs a little help sometimes to dig in the past  and get started but then suddenly all the little pieces of information fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and then amazing stories are told about people he met and worked with.  

Wonderful stories of his youth,his brave actions as a 16-year-old boy in the Resistance movement in WWII , and  ...how he met my mother.

Moments to be cherished !