Anyway, this quilt was meant to be a goodbye quilt, but he might be coming back to us, so I decided it needed to become a Christmas present, which meant it needed to be finished!
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"Spiral Learning" is a memory boosting technique which is really good for children like R: asking questions and talking about what has happened helps various connection in the brain, so this quilt is all about memories: it includes a motorway sign, the family pets, our names, and favorite activities (counting planes, feeding donkeys, riding a tricycle, spotting bridges, listening to the washing machine etc)
I hope he likes it when we get it to him.
Yesterday we drove to Portsmouth to see my mum: Brian drove and I sewed, and got 80 4 inch squares stitched together in pairs for Trygve's table runner. Today they got ironed (and photographed), so I can get on with them tonight.
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I also got a photo of some of the stack and slash blocks
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Dear Benta, what a lovely quilt you are making and with a special story! I hope everything goes well with the boy! Do you really sew by hand in the car...I knit but that's different...bravo you! I love the colours and those free squares in the last photo!
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What a fabulous quilt - and a memory of good times for this youngster who has had such a hard life so far.
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