Hometown Quilting

Creating items for your home that become treasured mementos can be as complicated or as simple as you choose. I decided that I wanted to create a fun wall hanging that would travel with us wherever we might land in North America over the coming years. It would become one of many items that hang in our house to mark our journey as a family.
We have a wonderful watercolor photo of families skating across a frozen pond, a true landmark in the city where our story began as a family. A pen and ink drawing of another landmark building where we spent many a St. Batiste Day celebration complete with fireworks, picnics and games for the children.
My fabric homage to where we currently call home had to be in fabric as that seems to be my passion the last number of years. I also love the color coral so that is where I started. With a sharp pair of scissors, a hot iron, fabric and fusible web I began my creation. My only plan is that I knew where I wanted the small quilt to hang so that dictated its size. I started with the background fabric and then added buildings, trees and anything else I could think of as I fused my way to completion. I stopped here and there and stood back to view my creation and then happily added more and more. I then layered the piece on top of some cotton batting and a backing fabric and quilted here and there. My only decisions were where to quilt and where not to quilt to add dimension and create the illusion of grass, trees and roads.
I finished off the piece with some hand stitched and embroidered accents, metal and button embellishments and then added a binding to the quilt. Voila it's done and hanging in my kitchen just in case I forget where I have been in this wonderful journey I call my life.

I hope you enjoyed my story and it inspires you to start marking your journey with creativity,

Lorine