Postcards and Signatures - March 1, 2008

Good morning,

I received Susan's PC last week. It is fabulous. I feel intimidate by it to some extent. Postcard Quilts are new to me and I think it might show. But what fun they are. You have a completed project in just a few hours or minutes if you really have a handle on what you are doing. The possibilities seem endless. From researching the web, I have found that some quilters use it as a way to test a new method they want to try or practice embellishing before they put it together on their main project, and some really do use them to keep in touch with others mailing them right like they are. I am not quite finished with mine but it shouldn't be long now.

I have been spending considerable time on the prayer quilt for my son's friend. I have 200 signatures from his class and found out that we needed about 50 more to have all the kids in his grade sign. The quilt is growing it will be about 90" and that is without the borders.

Our little local paper got wind of the quilt as well and want to do a story about it. I am not sure how I feel about that. But if I can twist it to be about the kids and not me that will be ok.

Quilt of Prayer and Hope

I am diligently working on my trade. But, I also started a new quilt with my kids. My oldest just found out last week that one of his friends has lung cancer Stage 3. So we came up with the idea of a prayer quilt and we are making it in the school colors blue and green in a bow tie pattern and will get all of the kids in his class to sign a square and say a prayer of hope for this child. I don't know the family well but I remember one time in church when my oldest was 2. I was having a struggle with being told to sit in the cry room with my child during a family discussion service. I said no that I would rather leave than to be cast away to a room where I would only be allowed to listen and not participate. I was hurt and angry at the same time. My child was playing quietly on the floor in the pew with a small car I truely felt he was not being a distrubance or I would not have been able to be there anyway. We sat in the back away from the main group to begin with and I was enjoying the fact that I could actually be there in the first place. At any rate this woman came up to me during the confrontation and would not let me leave. She put her arm around me and said come and sit with my family. It will be fine. So I did. I have never forgotten her kindness and warmth. I only wish I could do more than make a quilt and pray for her and her child and family.

The Trade

If I have figured this out you should be seeing the postcard I am hoping to trade for.
You can view the rest of the postcards at Susan's site cyber fyber exhibition postcards. This is all a first for me. I am so excited to get started. I will post my trading postcard as soon as I finish it.
Well my two year old is ready for something new to do. So I will be off.

Postcard 54

February 15 2008 Just starting out.

I am so excited I created this blog to be able to trade a fabric postcard with Susan Lenz. Once I figure out how to post a picture and link to Susan's site. I will be on my way.