Week 52
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Christmas this week so I have included the Star in the East as a symbol of the hope and joy of Christmas. Imagine the three wise men using the star as their guiding light to show them the way to the birth place of Jesus. May Christmas be a starting point for a year of hope and joy for the world. This week was also the time for Geraldine, her husband Mal and daughter Stacey to visit on their brief holiday in Melbourne from Boston. Geraldine is the other half of this diary quilt project! So after 12 months of work we had a chance to see each others block in the real rather than via the Internet. An exciting occasion for two quilters!
The background reminded me of a starry night. The star is made of two sheer Christmas fabrics overlaid to form the centre of the star and then the rays of the star machine embroidered, with some extra details added with stranded cotton stitched by hand. I have included a photo of the five of us taken in our front garden under the pin oak and in front of the rhodendrons. I machine embroidered the 52.