I've been away from the board for a long time - Superstorm Sandy really knocked a hole in my heart - and then there were other tasks and trials to be overcome in our new home. But at long last, I'm settled in and happily finishing UFO's!
Here are a series of little quilts that served as therapy in the early days of our exile. I finally got around to binding them. The photos are pretty dreadful - taken with my phone.
This one is called And Then The Sea Came In. Hard to see all the stitching in this photo, but it is covered!
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Then there is this one, called Raised Houses - after we were told that all houses had to be raised 10 feet in the air or we could pay thousands in flood insurance. I embroidered our house number on the middle one.
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This one is a recollection of happier days spent fishing on the bay. Our old zip code is embroidered on the ship's bow. It's called Sail Away. I've included a photo of the back as the stitching isn't clear in the first photo.
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The next one is Under the Sun - with a close up of some of the stitching on the sun. Living on a barrier beach island, the sun was always intense and warming, even in winter.
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Here is one called Fly Away at Sunset. I always wondered where the seabirds went once the sun went down. Sometimes at night you could hear them in the marshes.
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And finally, this one is Gibbous Moon Waxing. Although I often walked the beach at night and fished in the bay, I was always a little nervous about what lived below the waves. Here, a fish rises to the moon's reflection in an attempt to devour the light. In the depths, a mermaid reaches up to snatch the light to keep in the dark places where she lives.
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There are still more, but not yet finished.