Angel Art Quilt

Grandmother Who Holds The Sunset

Here is my angel quilt top. I placed her sitting on top of the flowers she loves-roses. The background fabric is from the Lewis and Clark "Journey" collection. I found the word "quilting" in the words and it is actually at the top right hand corner. The angel quilt is called "Grandmother Who Holds The Sunset" because her favorite time of day is sunset. This is the picture I took of the sun setting on the Colonial Parkway near Jamestown. She is a teacher and genealogist so I chose the pen and ink to represent these two parts of who she is. The ink bottle holds angelina ink and the pen has a drop of angelina falling off on to the fabric. I was given a pic of my angel which was taken the day we were assigned the guild member. From this pic I took her head and ran it through on fabric to place on the body I created for her. The final decision I made was to put a partial butterfly wing made of black thread and angelina on her. I really love how this worked out. I hope my angel likes what I did for her.

Grandmother Angel Who Holds The Sunset

This is the WIP I am rushing to finish by Saturday morning. It doesn't look like much yet. This is not the background I am using. I chose a piece from the Lewis and Clark collection of fabric. My angel is a genealogist, loves the sunset, roses and orchids and visiting Hawaii or Epcot in Florida. She is a teacher at the local college. So far I have her perched on a large yellow, red rose holding the sunset. The title will be Grandmother Angel Who Holds the Sunset. I'm waiting for the background fabric to dry. And while I am waiting I will create more roses and maybe some ribbon will flow from all around the roses. Details, details that's what I need to work on. Any suggestions on how to outline the sunset and emphasize it more.

An interesting phone call yesterday.

My sister called me to ask if I could get a Richmond paper. Her son who graduates in June went to Richmond to sign up to join the Army. When he was being sworn in they called him Chris. He told them that's not my name, they said are you sure that's what we have. Then they realized there were two with the same unusual last name. They ask my nephew if he had a relative signing up too. He said no, the person couldn't be related. They replied well he probably is related bc your name is very unusual. My nephew met the other young boy and sure enough it is his cousin. My sis and hubby were divorced long ago and my nephew never met the other extended family except when he was a toddler.

This group of boys were in the 8000's sign up so a 3star General swore them in and a big article is to be in the paper. What are the odds of a cousins, who don't know each other, signing up on the same day? The recruiter said they had siblings, and hubby/wife sign ups but never cousins and esp. when they didn't know each other. God is interesting.