003 - Show And Tell (Checkered Hearts)

Back into the Show And Tell routine, documenting and photographing all my quilts, even the less spectacular ones.

This one was made many, many years ago and has been washed and loved to death.

I look back now at all the flaws, and I need to remember that whilst it may look dreadful, we didn't know as much as we do now and it was loved to death.  Washed and washed and washed, now it's faded, the binding has begun to shrink, and it doesn't matter because isn't that what we make quilts for?  To wear out from use and then to make another one?

Anyway.  It's photographed and documented.

44 degree day today.  Not sure what that is in the old numbers but well over 100.  Hot (boom boom) on the heels of our all time hottest day on record, 48 degrees the other day.  Australia is either burning or flying away in dust storms, and it's really very hard to not get caught up in the emotion of it all.  I focus on the positives, we are safe here, we are far from fire trouble, we have water and we have electricity.  But so many places are burning.  It's hard to know what to say or do.  

I always sew on days like today.  Keeps me calmer, somehow.

Anyway.  Hope your day is a quilty one!