This beautiful six block quilt represents many family stories that I had the opportunity to bring back to life once again in Ft. Lupton, Colorado. This program has been peacefully resting for nearly 3 years, and the great people at the Library in Ft. Lupton allowed me to put it back on the stage. What a charge! Oh, and let me add that the quilt is the work of my wonderful wife, Judy. She provides the fabric art, I provide the oral art.
Stories of bears and blizzards, cabins and prairies, coal mines and Christmases, and wheat fields and pioneers that have been a part of the history of our families made up the hour. This delightful hour was spent with mostly elder citizens of this great small community who have an interest in quilting and the quilting arts.
Surrounded by beautiful quilts from the area, I had a chance to relate the bear paw quilt patch to a "roping the bear" story and tell the story of my Christmas sled as reminded by the
Christmas Star quilt pattern. The other patterns in this mini quilt are snow crystal, log cabin, fields and fences and one that we have forgotten what it is. When we planned the quilt, we looked through the quilt book, found patterns for the stories we had and added in a few that we thought would really become "found" in our family history. That was about 5 or 6 years ago.
Now, you have to remember that we grew older, packed everything into boxes and moved from Wyoming to Colorado. So, the quilt block on the lower left corner has become a lost story. Neither my wife nor I remember the name of the quilt block nor do we remember any story that might have been related to it.
Any thoughts?
Great fun with this Tapestry of Family Stories, though!
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