The Sister Quilt

Last year, my sister, Mona, made me a quilt. It was the first quilt that anyone had ever made just for me. I adore it and so this year, I made her a quilt. I love Denyse Schimdt, so I put this quilt together with unparallel seams and mis-shapen boxes. The pictures in each square sort of trace our relationship. I used batiks, wax-stained fabrics, because she LOVES batiks, so many colors all smooshed into one design. The fall colors were to match her house and our favorites, yellow and brown. The red is in there for reasons we understand, though you may wonder why. I had so much fun doing it. Some quilts are just fun to put together. I didn't know how it was all going to work out at the time that I did it, but I just knew that, no matter how it looked, she would love it, use it, cherish it.