My next-door studio neighbor, Connie Bloom, makes art quilts. Art quilts are not your grandma’s quilts but actually unique works of art. One kind of quilt in which she is particularly gifted is her tribute or memorial quilts. She takes clothes of the person you want memorialized and goes from there. Yesterday she showed me the third in a series of four works she was doing for the family of a man who had died three years ago. His widow had commissioned Connie to make four quilts — one for each of her three daughters and one for herself. With the third now completed, the widow was going to present them to her daughters on Christmas. Looking at this quilt (it was actually like a book, which is hard to explain) gave me chills. I was relieved I wouldn’t be at the studio today when the woman came to pick it up because I figured she would lose it. I can’t even imagine what it will be like when these three daughters open up their quilts. I hope they have lots of tissue. I don’t know what she charges, but here’s the Web page about them: http://www.conniebloom.com/memorial.php
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I am welling up with tears. This is so beautiful. What a wonderful gift for someone.