I made this quilt along with the elementary children at Montessori Radmoor School in Okemos, Michigan. Their beloved teacher Miss Monique had to leave this spring in order to spend more time with her growing family. We all cried together at her going-away party. The other elementary teacher, Miss Margie, took the pictures, and the children wrote messages and drawings with permanent fabric markers. I arranged the blocks in an Attic Windows setting. I used three purples and three greens in light, medium, and dark. I arranged the purples to fade across one diagonal and the greens to fade the opposite way. (Clear as mud?) Unfortunately, where the medium purple met the medium green, I lost the three-dimensional effect. Live and learn the importance of value! The center block features the unofficial school logo, the silhouette of a child flying a kite and the words, "Don't make me walk when I want to fly." All the words are done in my atrocious attempt at hand-embroidery. The quilting in the center block suffered as it was done in the middle of the night. (I had two weeks to do this project from conception to birth.) Again, many thanks. I couldn't have photo-quilted without you, and I already have plans for several more! Anne Norman Perry, Michigan |