Grandson Sam is renting a house in Lombard along with his brother Jack and a third roommate. Just because they are living close to us doesn’t mean we will see them with greater frequency. Sam went to Northern Michigan State, and one fall we took a road trip to see him - Sam was a sophomore, and I gave him a quilt. Since then almost any event we are attending, Sam is quick to tell me he uses his quilt nightly and has washed it a lot. Recently he told me he bought a queen bed and kind of gave what was on my dining room wall ( see below) a longing look - it is a smaller version of what I made him years ago. I asked him if he’d be interested in a bed version of this quilt. All of the fabrics in this quilt are out of print, but grunge pairs nicely. These fabrics were originally from a collection by Janet Clare called Wordsmith. And most important to my eye, there’s a color in this quilt - it’s grey/green/touch of blue - that feeds my soul and is so hard to describe and match. But this one grunge works!
