Look quickly

 Look quickly because I think I have to hide this post just in case Elizabeth looks at my blog, which I'm 99.9% sure she doesn't but just in case.  New post on something else tomorrow so this goes down the que! 

Yesterday I finished the last square and then took the night off. 

Each square tell something about her life.  Still needs to be sashed and bordered.  I am forever grateful she didn't want a 'fussy' Baltimore Album and when I calmed down, made a targeted timeline I had a wonderful time researching what to do.  But holy cow, the mess on the thinking bed working out colors, making templates, cutting and organizing them.  Phew!

Quickly:  she wanted flowers, the colors red, yellow and green to predominate, and I took it from there.  Top row: flowers and the right corner is cherries, her favorite fruit.  Next row: her yellow cat, and on the end oak leaves and acorns for the oak tree outside her bedroom window that she is very allergic to BUT that tree has been dated to the Civil War (1860s) and so it stays.   Next row, red colonial pineapples, old pattern.  Laurel wreath for Ancient Rome, her initial on the fabric she brought home from Williamsburg, Hamilton.  Next row, small wreath with raspberries for the many, many trips to pick berries every summer, next a red rose because June's flower is the rose and she was born in June, next, their house, next Hobbit hole door with the first line of the book embroidered under it. Bottom row, books.  She is an avid reader, the clunky flowers she painted on the mural on their garage when she was just a tot. I always thought her leaves looked like popsicle sticks.  

When she was just an infant she had a sleeper she wouldn't give up when she grew out of it.  She called it her cuddle.  We called it Cuddy.  Cuddy still sleeps with her.  Well, it was a dusty pink with gray rabbits on it.  I interpreted that by nestling in a rabbit on some of her blocks.  There's one on her initial, one on the house block, one on the wreath of berries. and in the center of the oak leaves/acorns there is an owl that you can hardly see because it blends in so well....as owls do in trees.  She has always had a thing for owls, too.

Each square is cut to 10.5 inches, to finish at 10. I cut them to size yesterday. Today I put the sashing on then measure and cut for borders then cut the pieces for the VERY simple border. 

Phew! Nowhere near done but I am on target.