BLUE MONDAY

Sally at Smiling Sal is once again hosting Blue Monday. There is a whole lot of blue going on! Check out her blog to see a list of the participants.

For Blue Monday this week, I thought I would share with you a blue quilt. In the late 1960s, we lived in Montana for five years. During that time, after being married for 10 years, we had our first child. I had never been around children very much and now found myself far away from family with a newborn. The winters where we lived were horrendous, so I was stuck at home most of the time. Boy, did I need a support group!! I joined a home extension club (remember those?) where the emphasis was on child rearing and the domestic arts. I found a wonderful group of young mothers that became supportive friends.

When we moved back to Colorado in 1971, these friends gave to me a stack of quilt squares with their signatures embroidered on them. I treasured these signatures, but I couldn't quite figure out what kind of quilt to make as the blocks were all different sizes and colors. Thirty years went by and I moved my little pile of signatures from house to house.

Finally in 2002, I put them into this quilt using a variation of the Court House Steps pattern.

I called the quilt, "Another Time, Another Place", and included it in a book I wrote about signature quilts.

Here is a close-up of one of the blocks.

Unfortunately, I have lost track of all of these women that took me into their group and supported me during a lonely period. I haven't forgotten them or their friendship, though!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sally