Dreamer

D is for dreamer.

I have special connections with one of my great grandmothers. I share her middle name "Ann." I share her year of birth, 100 years after her. I share her year of marriage, 100 years after her. I share her hobby of quilting.

This is the last quilt Emelia Ann made in the 1930s. I haven't done my homework on the designer, but it may have been Ann Orr. The 1-inch squares and the pink strips (what looks like a border of sorts) are hand appliqued.

I dream of what it was like for her not having:

~ a quilt shop in her village

~ quilting books, magazines, and patterns

~ pens with disappearing ink

~ an electric sewing machine

~ an electric iron

~ rotary-cutting tools

~ glitzy thread

~ seam rippers

~ fusible web

I can only dream of how different our lives as quilters are from one another. I dream of living the life that she lived.


Emelia's quilt, it's art!