2020 Covid Quilts

  

Well, 2020 has been a year that will go down in the history books.  For me, it started out just fine.  I was teaching at Washington Fields Intermediate School and busily holding IEP meetings for my SpEd students.    

Five short months later,  our school had totally shut down on a Friday and began struggling to teach online on Monday.    It was the result of a mysterious virus supposedly unleashed from bats at a Chinese marketplace and quickly was spreading to every region of the globe.  Unreal! Covid-19 - highly contagious and 5 times more deadly than the flu. 

      Fast forward now to October.  I have since retired and stay home nearly 24/7.   Social media and Google  Hangouts are the "go-tos" for the outside world.  We order and are charged for our groceries online, drive to Wal-Mart and unlatch the trunk.   Usually a friendly teenager rolls our bags out in a wagon and places them in the trunk.  We wave, click the latch button until we hear it softly close and then drive away.  Our comfort foods include canned ravioli,  Extra Toasty Cheez-Its and Oreo Cookies.  

    Tragic stories pepper the news and Facebook.   The wearing of masks has become absurdly political.  Next month we will know the results of our votes and if we can remove from the White House, this president who rejects science and kept from us the facts of how serious this virus was.  As of today, the USA has had 226,982 deaths.  

My husband and I have dabbled in online classes,  British TV mysteries, hiking and binge reading.  

I have finished sewing projects that have been sitting on shelves in cupboards for years.   Instagram has a wealth of information from good people, willing to give their time and talents to help others jump up and pick up their pens or heels or stitching needles.

Sweet Cinnamon Roses (Laura Cunningham) from Scotland, has started the "Let's Make A Quilt Together" movement.   She is offering tutorials, graphs and guidelines with the end goal being that you will have a finished quilt in 8 weeks...even if you are a complete novice.  All free of charge because she is just a really nice person.  You can find out about it here.

A Pinterest picture from rose hip 

I have several projects in progress so I thought I would just join in to watch how everyone does.  Then I saw some Pinterest pictures of a quilter from Canada called "rose hip", of the same 5 square quilt with fabrics I loved.  So now I have changed my mind and am all in!

close up of fabrics from rose hip - lots of colors I love