A Sad Day

Today is a sad day for me today, My sister Barbara lost her long battle with cancer in May and today would have been her 61st birthday.

When she died so many of my online quilting friends sent me hearts. They applique a heart onto a piece of cream fabric and send to ones in need. I recieved 100 hearts since the day after Barbara died. So I chose this weekend to put the quilt together. I had enough to make a large quillow and a cushion for my sister Margie and 4 left over that I made another cushion for me.

The hearts are all shades of batik and oriental fabric and they all go together perfectly. I am waiting on some batik fabric to use for the borders but have the hearts all sewn together into a top and sharing some pictures above. There is the quilt top, the cushion for the quillow, the cushion with the green hand dyed borders for Margie and the cushion which I will add some lavender to with the four remaining hearts has an orange border.

When I finsihed the quilt top I lay it over the couch and I sat and looked at it and cried and cried more than I have since I lost Barbara. It is so bright and so much love in it I can't wait to finish it and wrap it around me. Need to wait on the batik for the borders. I didn't sort the hearts and arrange them. All I did was put them roughly into colours and take one from each pile to make 10 rows of 8 blocks and it all went together very well

This heart quilt has some much love sewn into it I am still amazed I recieved 100 hearts, they started arriving the day after Barbara died and continued everyday for almost three months was a joy to go to my letter box each day.

So I will spend the rest of the day just thinking about my sister and will probably ring my other sisters and my mum.