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4361 - Wayward Wind
Judy Buchanan
Austin, TX USA
Width: 8.875" Length: 11.5"
Materials/Techniques: Cottons, Pellon fusible fleece. Machine pieced. Machine quilted.
Artist's Statement: A “wayward wind” blows through life when a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is made. This quilt illustrates that by using the roses at the bottom to represent normal life and the variation of a pinwheel block represents the wayward wind that is blowing through that normal life.
Dedication: To my Mother’s sister and my Mother’s best boyfriend both of them in the nursing home she was in – both of them with Alzheimer’s. And to my husband’s uncle who died of the disease.
This quilt is displayed with Fast Finish Triangles.
This quilt earned $39.84 for the AAQI.
Austin, TX USA
Width: 8.875" Length: 11.5"
Materials/Techniques: Cottons, Pellon fusible fleece. Machine pieced. Machine quilted.
Artist's Statement: A “wayward wind” blows through life when a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is made. This quilt illustrates that by using the roses at the bottom to represent normal life and the variation of a pinwheel block represents the wayward wind that is blowing through that normal life.
Dedication: To my Mother’s sister and my Mother’s best boyfriend both of them in the nursing home she was in – both of them with Alzheimer’s. And to my husband’s uncle who died of the disease.
This quilt is displayed with Fast Finish Triangles.
This quilt earned $39.84 for the AAQI.