Day 32: Back in the days of my innocent youth, I decided I wanted to start quilting. I browsed through all my books (I had quite a library of needlework references even then), and I came across "Memory Wreath" (aka "Crown of Thorns") in the "Woman's Day Book of American Needlework." I had no idea what I was getting into or what problems I might encounter along the way, so I just dived in. In the end, my "meets" may not have been as perfect as I would have liked, and some of the blocks required a substantial bit of easing to get the seams to line up, but the quilt was beautiful nevertheless. I made at least two more on the same pattern over the years, each one coming together a little more accurately than the earlier versions. Since then, my skills have improved even more, and I kept thinking, "I'd really like to make one more 'Memory Wreath' before I leave this world." And then I discovered English paper piecing, and a whole new vista opened up. Now I have a Plan. While I don't intend to make it "scrappy" like most of my quilts, I have a lot of fabrics to choose from. I want to theme each block in a different colour combination. The pieces shown in black here will be solids of the basic colour of each block, as will the center square (at least I think that's what I want to do, because it gets some solids out of my stash). Prints will be used for everything else, repeating as shown in the illustration. I will probably only make twelve blocks (lap size).
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