I am playing with Quilt Pixie using Mary Lou Weidman's approach to making a story quilt. My idea is "getting older". Not growing old or getting old but GETTING OLDER. After all we are all getting older from the moment we are born. When I was young I thought it would be awful to get older but now that I am there it isn't so bad at all. "Getting older" brings up lots of thought for example:
gray hair
grandchildren
wrinkles
aches and pains
more time/less time
empty nest
elderly parent(s)
retirement
middle age spread
memories
loss of loved ones
sickness
Any suggestions?
5 comments:
you're working on a great list for getting older... One cultural image of getting older I don't see on your list is more aches and pains and doctoring...
love your letters...as for growing older what about wisdom, experience, achieving dreams.
I think that's such a wonderful way to approach a quilt. What an interesting list you have -- I hope you really do make it into a quilt!
Just visiting - stumbled across your blog - I like it! I'll be back!
Hugs - Lurline!
Getting older means time to look at the trees- not just drive by them
imagining caring for the farm alone
returning to things I enjoyed in my youth and this time doing it because I want to.
A picture quilt may be in line for the first thing I do when I get to retire in three years!
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