This is my card for the Tickle a Teapotter challenge this month. We are making warm cosy patchwork for winter, with extra cookies if you make a "memory quilt" and incorporate some memories into the card.
You'll find the challenge HERE.
I used a quilt set from Whippersnapper to create mine, which represents the community garden I walk to when I visit my dad, and the hens that we often have to chase back into their run again before he's happy to leave. The script patches (French Foliage) represent all the notes he was writing to himself to remind him of the simplest things as his memory deteriorated.
I think the sentiment is from the same Whippersnapper set. It's stamped with French Foliage and Timeless Textures, and the card background is stamped with Linen and stitched.
Date: Monday, December 26, 2016 GMT Views: 928
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Wed, Dec 28, 2016 @ 9:05 AM
Here come those tears again, pooling in my eyes. Your card speaks to me on many levels, Sabrina. The rich texture of the big, those stitches, the 9 patch quilting pattern, that sentiment...oh, how marvelous the power to speak through your HE{art}. Keeping the commandment. What a rich blessing.
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Wed, Dec 28, 2016 @ 9:06 AM
I knew right away what you were thinking about when I saw the chickens and fliwers on your card. This one is a special from the heart creation...I hope you keep it. As our parents decline, the "quality time" we spend with them changes. Sometimes chasing chickens is the best we can do. Someday, those days spent with the chickens will be special memories. I still smile when I think about a conversation I had with my dad near the end of his life about the fabulous salmon he had eaten that dsy for lunch...the best he had ever eaten. In reality, due to the Parkinson he had not been able to swallow for a year and had a G-tube in his stomach supplying all nutrients. Sending hugs.
Registered: April 9, 2010 Location: Arizona Posts: 714
Wed, Dec 28, 2016 @ 3:04 PM
Sabrina, this is a wonderful quilt card you have created, and the memories you've shared make it that much more special. I love the sentiment that you have chosen to go with this great card. As always your cards are spectacular.
Registered: February 28, 2010 Location: Eastern Ohio Posts: 6253
Wed, Dec 28, 2016 @ 10:01 PM
Great quilt to go with your story and how sweet it is. Neat background with the stitching going around and how each quilt block has its own story to tell. Nice memory quilt!!
Registered: October 21, 2010 Location: in the okanagan in b.c. canada Posts: 13012
Fri, Dec 30, 2016 @ 2:13 AM
This card makes me smile in many ways...the cuteness, warmth, and memories, plus the old country charm it holds. Very neat edging too...such a fun stitch....wonderful and perfect sentiment too....yep still smiling, especially at those cute lil chicks...LOVE it Sabrina....TFS and the warm smiles...:0)
------------------------------ We as people are raindrops of colorful ink , falling down Crisp and Clear, each a different shade more vibrant then the last, but once we realize at the bottom of an endless abyss we all fall into the same inkpot forming one color, only then can we come together as one My son.