This theme
was the easiest for me among the previous ones.
We all are
full of memories especially when the half of the life has gone. These memories are
different – good and bad. I try to keep in mind only good memories and very
seldom remember bad things.
I made this
quilt in memory of my grandmother and it has taken only two days, may be because
I wanted to make something about grandma for a long time.
My grandma
had a long and very difficult life. She was born in 1890 and gave birth for 8
babies but only 5 from them grew till their twenties. These five were two sons
and three daughters. Her husband died when she was 40. One son had disappeared in
1941 during The World War II and grandma has been waiting for him till the end
of her life…Second son was killed in 1945 during the war between the USSR and Japan. Daughters were with her till
the end.
I spent each
summer at grandma’s house. It was really small house with only three little rooms
which were full of things that grandma made including weaved rugs. So I put
similar little rugs in my quilt. My grandma lived in a village close to the
mountains and there were two rivers which skirted the yard so background
symbolizes mountains and rivers. Water in the rivers usually has looked grey
that’s why I chose this color for background. There were also a lot of linen
things at grandma’s house: curtains, table runners, towels. So I decided to use
this fabric for background. But the best
of all was big orchard that she owned. There were different kinds of apples
each summer so I sewed apple from many pieces which symbolizes different tastes
and colors of apples. I'm an early bird. And usually first thing I did at grandma's after awaking I went to orchard, picked apple which was covered with morning dew and ate it. That's why there are beads on apple.
