The Days Are Sometimes Rainbows

Pat Sloan  put out the call to ask about our English Paper Piecing (EPP) and a bit about how we utilize the style or not. I do have one ongoing project that is EPP. I use the scraps from quilts that I make to make one flower from each quilt’s scraps. I have this great bag that I keep the project in my Thrive bag from  Heart Berry  A local Ojibwe artist promoting Indigenous to not simply survive, but to thrive, she also is an amazing beader.  So the bag is beautiful and carries a ton of my stuff that I can grab and go when we jump in the car snd head up the North Shore of Lake Superior, cross over to Wisconsin and drive on the South Shore, or down to MSP. In this bag I have as you can see, a bag with a stack of finished flowers, a bag with petals all sewn into the centers awaiting the sides of petals to be seen together. I have a bag with cut squares with the Hexigon paper pieces (hexies) pinned to 2-1/2 squares. There are 450 of these, I know there are 450 beca...

Last night I finished this small piece. Well semi finished, I need to decide if I want to quilt it or make it as a porch flag. Why did I make this? In Italy the people are putting rainbows I. Their windows, hanging them from balconies. As  Pat Sloan said, “This is to let their neighbors and friends know they are ok. And to give hope during this crazy pandemic. Aurifil asked some of us to recreate the Rainbow banners with the ANDRÀ TUTTO BENE messages of hope. This roughly translates in English to 'Everything will be Okay'.. a message of hope.” I had already communicated with those I know in Italy, sadden by the losses, and was grateful those few who did not have losses in their immediate families. I too look for the rainbow in this storm of a pandemic.