Country Was IN

9 Squares in a Country Tradition

Revisiting quilts I made such a long time ago is a trip down memory lane for me. This was the first block of the Month project I did. My work was very left brained (accounting/management) and drained me so much that I needed a creative outlet to re-energise. I found the block of the month options were a real plus. Each month a block with all the fabrics arrived in the mail so that I could focus on that block and work away to get it done before the next block arrived. It really helped. living remotely from any patchwork or fabric shop, getting the monthly block was also a bonus. You can learn the skills of accounting but never really enjoy the work and my quilting was the outlet I needed to keep going.

This quilt was a mixture of pieced and applique. I was still hand quilting at this stage.

I spent a year as an AFS scholar in Iowa so the American Country theme harked back to that time. While my style changed over the years, becoming less traditional, it is fun to look back on where my development began