Can You Quilt or Collage Your Life?
July 12, 2009 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
As my husband and I celebrated our anniversary yesterday, I looked back on years of adventure and learning, of the various phases of life, of a daughter and grandchildren, careers and businesses, travels and ups and downs.
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Should I plan something representing our life, either a quilt or mixed media collage? The more I think of it, the more it seems a possibility.
What should I include? Where will I research?
- Photos from engagement and wedding
- Reminiscenses of Jim’s years as an Air Force pilot and me a military wife.
- Owning airplanes and Jim’s cross-country trip in a bi-plane
- The arrival of our daughter and her growing up years
- Pack trips to the Gros Ventre Mountains of Wyoming with her
- Beth’s marriage
- The arrival of our grandchildren
- My mother’s Alzheimer’s years and our family involvement with her journey
- My recovery from a broken back after an accident
- Bits from my writing and quilting careers
- Our years now and what we’re looking forward to
What would you quilt or sketch for your life? You don’t have to be our age. You can use your growing up years, school years, marriage, children’s youth, travels, careers. Take singular events or compile them into a collage of many adventures.
Have you done this already?
