…is my entry for the Alzheimers Challenge Auction. My quilt is due August 1 and I think my entry will be the one that shows up at Ami's door on that very day. This year's challenge has a hockey theme and we even have pictures!
This is a project that I can build in front of you as I go (no secrets!) so I thought you might want to see the line drawings for my house blocks.
This is the page from my notebook that I worked from:
I'm going to add rickrack and ribbon and beads and buttons to dress up the houses. The blocks will be 4" x 4". The 2" borders will have these words:
I'm not sure how I will put the words on the borders. I'd like to applique them but it will depend on the time I have to finish it.
I applique at night and I took the last stitch in my current project on Friday night. Tonight I should be cutting out templates.
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Thanks for sharing. At least you had the good taste to wear a Red Wings jersey!!!
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Sadly, the questions you want to embroider for the borders are similar to what my mother used to say. Towards the end, Mom would sometimes sit on the curb outside her home of 50 years and not know where she was. She would be asking everyone to take her home. Dementia of any type is awful. Bless you for helping with the Challenge Auction.
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After my moms surgery in January she was so very altered mentally. Thankfully she is a lot better now but those bad times did lead to my mom and sister moving to Texas. Now they wonder just a little whether they really had to move. Questions of home, what is it, where is it, how do you find it – these questions are on all of our minds.
And, yes, they really did need to move. Steve and I are certain of that.
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I love this design and look forward to following your progress. It would be a fun pattern too although the 4-inch block size would be a bit daunting. (My mother is also in a care facility for Alzheimer’s. Thank you for your part in helping.)
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Being a life long Red Wing Fan, who hardly ever misses a game, I love the photo. Congrats on the quilt, it looks wonderful such a wortgy cause.
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Love the quilt design and the houses, but mostly that you do this. I am, however, confused about the hockey connection.
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This grew out of the fact that the first four of us (John Flynn, Hollis Chatelain, Sue Nickels, and me) were individually challenging each other to raise the most money with our quilts. The first year the challenge had a world wrestling tilt.
Last year there were eight of us – four on a team. Two teams. We had a world series challenge – baseball. This year we have four more quilters to make 6 each on two teams and we have a hockey theme.
The theme has a lot more to do with the words that go with the challenge – not the quilts themselves.
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I will jump in and suggest using embroidery thread and the super simple back stitch for the words. I did this in a purple [for Harold and his Purple Crayon] and the words stand out nicely.
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OK…now I get it.
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I like this quilt and the subject of home and where is it. I am a Nurse and I work on an Alzheimers Unit. It is so sad how many times they will come up to my desk and ask “When is my family coming to take me home?” Since I am a quilter also I think I need to make a quilt for this Auction also.
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Every quilt helps the cause. I hope you do make one – or more!
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