Starry Night Number One

 

Quilting. I’ve not done it for some time, life kind of interfered with it for a while. I did make our grandson Konnor a baby quilt, but that’s pretty much been it for almost three years. But I’m finally back piecing again.

My youngest sister, Priscilla Bigley, died in December 2022. She was an ardent Van Gogh fan, and she actually was a pretty talented artist. She had done several paintings based on Starry Night, including her car at one point! She had tributes to Van Gogh, Monet, and Dr. Who on that car!

 

I was tasked at her memorial with helping with some of the arrangements. Tom and I wanted to find a journal that people could write memories in, that would serve as a guest book. While we were looking through the journals, Tom commented that I should look for one that had Starry Night on it. I browsed through them and found one that was backward. Pulled it out to turn it around, and lo and behold – it was a Starry Night journal! Needless to say, I grabbed it immediately.

How does this relate to quilting? Well, I was thinking about using up some of the multitudes of scraps, and it dawned on me that I have enough blues to make a go at a Starry Night quilt. I’m determined to only use what I have, with the possible exception of backing. I found that I do have sufficient blues/yellows/golds and whites to pull this off. Off to search for a pattern. Well, there aren’t really any out there, so I have to improvise. I found a pixel image that would work!

So far, so good! They are 2” blocks to start with, finishing at 1 1⁄2”, so it won’t be really big, but it will work as a table runner or wall hanging. I may not be the pen-and-ink and paint artists my sisters are, but I can certainly create with the gifts I have been given!

I really hope to have this finished, with the possible exception of the binding, by the time we leave for our extended trip on June 21. We’ll see. I won’t be able to work on it much this week as we are going to be in Phoenix for our 22nd anniversary, but when I get home, I’m going to really push to finish this!

Keep watching, I’ll post updates frequently!