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<\/a>We have this beautiful jacaranda tree growing over our back fence. In late spring it’s covered in tiny purply-mauve flowers which drop all over the ground. The flowers and the dappled light beneath the tree remind me of the way I wanted to scatter the hearts to get a ‘fallen leaves’ or ‘fallen flowers’ effect:<\/p>\n
Although this is my final post in ‘Trixi’s quilts’ – (the quilt I’m making for Shira probably won’t be finished for another few years) – this is actually the first full-size quilt I made: We have this beautiful jacaranda tree growing over our back fence. In late spring it’s covered in tiny purply-mauve flowers which … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
I intended to give this quilt to Yiscah for her 8th birthday in 1996:<\/p>\n<\/a>
…and I wanted it to reflect the things that she loved at that time…I took this drawing from the first page in her sketch book:<\/p>\n<\/a>
Hubby was teaching her to play guitar so I lightly quilted in a guitar. I like the idea of having to look awhile at something before you can see everything that’s there:<\/p>\n<\/a>
The materials are getting nicely worn through years of use:<\/p>\n<\/a>
This is part of a poem by the early Australian poet, Bango Patterson. We would make the poems into songs that she could play on her guitar…this one was her favorite when she was little:<\/p>\n<\/a>
This close-up shows those little details that you have to look for in order to see:<\/p>\n<\/a>
I quilted pictures of her favorite characters and objects – Snoopy, Woodstock, starfish-flowers, rainbows, etc – around the border of the quilt:<\/p>\n<\/a>
Flopsy was our very affectionate very intelligent very loved Angora rabbit…she, of course, has a square all of her own…and if you look you can just see the long grass she loved…and she probably would also have happily nibbled on that jacaranda flower:<\/p>\n<\/a>
You don’t find this out till years later but it’s just as much fun looking back and seeing all the things you put into a quilt and had forgotten were there as it is making the quilt in the first place. It’s a bit like looking at old photographs:<\/p>\n<\/a>
The 8th birthday quilt was finally completed 3 years later than I planned…still, Yiscah never seemed to mind…she was actually born on the very last day of spring and always liked to call herself “the very last flower of spring”…somehow it suits her:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"