Golden heart - the journey of a quilt

	I love to make quilts for a special occasion, in particular memory quilts, like the Europdonor quilt that I showed you before. In 2007, my parents celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary, a Golden Wedding. With the help om my daughters Sanne (colors) & Leonore (design), I made 'A Golden Heart'. It was quite a project that started with the choice for a main block: We choose to increase the 'Watercolor heart' block ( from Nancy J. Martin's perpetual calendar 365 quilt blocks a year, Feb 15) and filled the blocks with pictures and drawings of the grandchildren, printed on fabric, and other blocks that we felt were resembling my parents. After the choice for the blocks and the fabrics, the second part of the journey began: cutting pieces and fitting them together until we were all happy with the result. Our living room floor was more than once covered with blocks, pieces of blocks and one of us crawling around, trying to do some jigsawing with fabric pieces. What started with piles of fabric, started to look like a real memory quilt, and during a nice party, two of the younger grandchildren offered it to Oma & Opa. Needless to say that they were very surprised. The quilt is now covering my father's grand piano in the heart of their living room. Every time I see it, it makes me smile and brings back the memories of this nice quilting journey.