Lest We Forget - 100 year Anniversary of Anzac

2015 was the centenary of the Anzacs and Gallipoli. This quilt was made as a commemoration. the Flanders poppies are synonymous with Anzac day here in NZ and creating the 3 D poppies was lots of fun. The inserts are less than perfect but they have the images of my Dad and Robin’s Dad in them - two young men who went off to the Second World war. This was the first time I had attempted to insert photos in a porthole system.

I chose the dark grey marbled background fabric as a foil for the red and also because it reminded me of explosions shells going off. The quilt is machine quilted in a leaf pattern (or as Karen McTavish calls it,Open Cs.

The words machine embroidered are the words of the Anzac prayer: At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.