AHIQ Improvisational Maps Challenge-Mind Maps

About 25 years ago, our family ran a retail shop. A young lady came into the shop asking if we'd support a local chamber of commerce map of special shops and sites in our town. I looked at her example and was struck with the beauty of that map. She was the artist who had made the example and her hand drawings were all over that lovely map. Little circles popped out of the green landscapes of rivers and lakes like faeries springing to life.

This was the root of my idea for my quilt as presented in the AHIQ Improvisational Challenge.

And as I progressed with ideas on paper, I began to remember all the times in the education system I had helped children learn how to organize themselves with Mind Maps. They can be simple or quite complex. When I took my training to become an adult instructor, we used mind maps quite a bit to help the students learn how to organize themselves to take their skills farther to sharing their experise with adult students.

I found this map below at a site called Mind Maps for Essay Writing.

From this example you can see how to start a concept map yourself.

Basically, using mind maps was developed in 1970's by a professor named Joseph D. Novak. Please read more on the topic here. These concept maps may lead you to all sorts of wonderful places as they do me whenever a large project has to happen, I lay it out like this with as many idea bubbles as is necessary.

So this is the place I am starting from, combined with lots of color and fresh ideas for my memory maps around how trees have held me close.

Large mind quilts comes to my mind here.

I constructed and machine quilted the Town of Smithers 1913-2013 Quilt that was donated to the Town of Smithers in our Centennial year. This quilt was made from a drawing of this type of layout using a mind mapping concept. The final placement would vary from where you start of course.

Risks are taken when a challenge comes your way. A path not well trodden can lead to a beautiful waterfall or cliff edge, so go slowly is my motto!

I will begin more ideas on my mind map in coming days. I'm exxcited to play with a challenge again. I have lot of ideas and techniques to use on this challenge.

Best,

Caroline from Good Earth Quilting

The Last Adhoc. Projects from 2018

It feels good to know that I've wrapped up the last two open-ended Adhoc. Improv. projects. One was a follow-up of our Playing With Scale challenge. You can read lots more about the quilt over at my last post as I rambled forever.

Lots of improv. piecing!

I can see that this concept is one that I'll continue to revisit through the years. Simple, repeating elements mixed with changes in proportion are a fun way to show off fabric or play with color. This quilt was a tough slog at times though, and in the end, I took advantage of my son being gone for the weekend in order to bring the quilt top to completion. I desperately needed that time to ponder and tinker and play with the pieces. His bedroom joins with my quilting area and so I essentially co-opted his bedroom floor for the duration in order to have plenty of  'design floor' time. Once I got the rows figured out--where they joined up with each other {side by side}, how much to chop off or add to the ends, overall color flow and balance--then all I had to do was make sure the components stayed in the proper order. The rest I could accomplish from the tiny floor in my quilting room!

Playing With Scale #2

I also wanted to post a picture here of my results to the Maps Challenge. As most of you know, it has been named, 'Directions From a Local'. When I posted about it the other day {over at my blog}, I completely forgot to make sure it was over here as well! This challenge was really hard for me to get started on. And in fact, I never really did. What happened was that I eventually attempted to recreate a Roderick Kiracofe 'Unconventional & Unexpected' quilt, which, as per usual, took a few detours.  Along the way, it unexpectedly blossomed into my answer to the maps challenge.  First when I added the 'turn right' arrow in the center and then later when I allowed the unmeasured, free cut strips to make a huge, wonky mess of the quilt.

Directions From a Local

I think some people were appalled when I subsequently cut into the quilt and straightened it up by easing out the wobbles. Oh it definitely lays fairly flat and straight now, contrary to what it looks like in the above picture. Believe me, it's just a bit rumpled from being folded and put into a zip-bag for several days! Something about hacking into my quilt and basically 'letting the chips fall where it may', actually felt very cathartic though. That was after I got over the initial trepidation of course.

Regardless, it definitely made it easier to add a 'road' to the quilt , which for some reason felt so silly when I was only 'thinking' about it. Then it all just sort of fell into place without the fussiness or detailed piecework that I had somehow imagined would be needed. The lettering was the most time consuming part of the entire project. It so easily said everything the quilt needed to say without having to wrap wording around the quilt on every side. That's what my brain was trying to insist had to happen in order for the message to read properly. Can you tell that I had really built this challenge up into something to be dreaded? lol 

So glad I went with that seed of the initial idea {the right turn arrow} and gently, slowly, let the quilt tell me what to do next. On another note, all the fabric was sourced directly from my stash with the exception of one piece of black fabric when I ran low and didn't want to substitute another color. There is also one piece of mixed cotton/poly fabric included {the brown/white gingham}--a definitely departure for me. It was not fun at all to mix in with the cottons, but really helped give the quilt more of that utility look that I love and adore. This quilt has a lovely, subtle glow to it, a nice feeling of old fashioned charm and also a whimsical message. What more could I ask for? Now the slate is cleared and I'm ready for the next challenge coming up! #unconventionalandunexpected

Finally starting the Last Challenge!

Well, I'm finally starting to have a plan for the Maps Challenge. It's been a long time coming and I honestly stumbled into it quite by accident! You can read more about it over on my last blog post.

Maps Challenge Start

I am enjoying all the different versions and responses to this challenge that I have seen. So intrigued by the way some of your minds think! Mine is going to be extremely simple and much more basic I'm afraid. Not really 'maps' so much as a general mindset about how I tend to be when finding my way? It's still very much in-the-works and nothing nailed down.

The only thing I'm pretty sure about is next up, there will be a single unit in a 'road' style. Then, I'm playing with the idea of putting some words on the quilt.  Maybe even include a couple more of those 'turn right' appliqued arrows? Told you--I'm keeping it very low key and still in the arena of uncomplicated sewing. Though if I get too many words, that will involve lots of time.*sigh These things just sort of build don't they? lol

AHIQ 35: Maps

I thought the next AHIQ invitational was ready but have found myself repeatedly drawn to a new idea. Whether my mother’s passing made me consider past events or all the journeys by plane and car allowed time for reflection, traveling through history and over these long distances refocused me on diaries, connections and maps. I propose Maps and Mappings for our next six months’ study.

"Maps ultimately testify to our belief in the value of exploration, whether the compass is pointed inward or out. To do so is to appreciate the value of the mind as a dynamic vessel of exploration; it does not travel according to the limits of the compass rose, but moves by association. And when the mind comes to rest, when it ceases its orientating leaps and shunts and association, we find ourselves back where we started, where Here intersects Now." Stephen S Hall

Wikipedia defines a map as "a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions or themes" that  "may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale."

Road maps, geologic maps, treasure maps,

Texas Geologic Map, UT Austin 1992

landscape and house plans.

Eichler home floor plan

Instead of large-scale geography, it could also be the location of genes on a potato chromosome ...

 Schematic representation of the shape of DNA and the base pairs from PotatoGENE website

Or an imaginary or spiritual journey. My mother had an old needlework picture of the human heart. Not the Valentine heart but a realistic model with all the veins and arteries showing. Religious virtues were inscribed in different regions. I'm not sure where that picture went. She did have some downright scary art.

It could be as simple as a garden or as complex as the paths of every person in a city. Ed Fairburn combines portraits with maps. It could be as small as a pin or as wide as the cosmos.

The Milky Way Collapsing by Kukicho-san

"A map is a means for discovery, to be used for any kind of territory. It is a way to get from A to B, sometimes by way of Z. Most simply, a map is a cry from the wilderness, saying 'I am here!'" Katherine Harmon

Maps can relate time and frequency. David Ramsey’s post on cartographic mapping  revitalizes all my the timelines we made in grade school. Who knew they could convey so much? Many bloggers map their label frequencies on the sidebars.

Want to read up on mapmaking?

Map Art Lab by Jill Berry and Linden McNielly (2004) is a series of creative weekly exercises for mixed media. Only a few directly address quiltmaking. This book is also suitable for teenagers.

Map Art Lab by Jill Berry and Linden McNielly

Alicia Merrett has made map quilts since 2008. Her book, Mapping the Imagination (2014), is out of print but she has three Contemporary Quilt Demonstration videos on YouTube. You can find examples of her work in her gallery.

Valerie Goodwin's Art Quilt Maps (2013) specifically addresses making map quilts reflecting her training as an architect and professor.

Art Quilt Maps by Valerie S Goodwin

Her work involving imaginary and real places can be seen at:

• Valerie Goodwin's maps of real places
• Valerie Goodwin's maps as abstractions

Other artists working with maps as the foundation of their painting, collage, or quilting include

• Mary Bryning
• Janet Browne
• Diane Savona
• Matthew Cusick
• Scott St. John

"Maps have been used to demonstrate position, location... but they can also teach history. They can be used to hold stories and feelings about a place." Diane Savona

This Pinterest board has more links but is certainly not inclusive.

The opportunity to express history and feelings in patchwork, collage, stitching, painting, and stamping makes me believe this could be an interesting challenge. I hope you'll join us.

Also posted on Fret Not Yourself  blog.

Enjoy the day, Ann

Trees, Trails and Maps

As some of you may remember, when I was first starting on this Maps Challenge, I had been consumed with trails of peace and quiet in the forest. How does one map a trail or demonstrate the importance of peace and quiet to our everyday healthy lifestyle.

I can feel the relaxation even not being there. Do you make a point of thanking our trees. We lost so many this past summer to forest fires, it makes you wonder how we will live if deforestation continues?

This tree above is so marvelous because its got three co-dominant trunks. Two of the trunks began as mere branches, but the tree evolved to allow this enormous weight of the two lower branches to become strong by building up the main tree trunk underneath each of the branches.

I've made progress on Maps Challenge. I've made a fall/autumn group of four blocks. I will have 16 blocks when this is done. 

What do you think?

Maps Quilt Finished!

Another AHIQ challenge quilt done and dusted! This one was part of the Maps prompt. Not much of a map really, but loosely based off an idea that maps and I don't always get along, especially the GPS kind. They tell me to turn right and I always, always turn right AFTER the turn instead of where I'm supposed to, so then I end up going in circles.

Turn Right...

Then that got me to thinking that I'm so much better with directions that include landmarks etc. Which led to thinking about the kind of directions that a local can give and well... this quilt just came to be.

Started as a U&U Interpretation and morphed into
an excellent Maps challenge quilt

It's very simple but hopefully effective in telling its story. You can read more about this quilt and how it came to be on my latest post. So happy to see this one finished up and ready to use. As always, I am very pleased to see one of the AHIQ prompts leading me down yet another creative ally with good results. Will have to think harder about the hourglass prompt and see what crops up....

Final Post for My Mapping Journey

DH and I were talking a few weeks back

and I mentioned needing to finish up

my map challenge project.

He asked me what I meant

so I explained the challenge.

He grabbed his sketch pad

and drew what he thought of 

when he considered a "map." 

And I knew what I would do 

for my final post of this challenge.

This black and white neighborhood fabric

was just too perfect for the background.

And I found eight different brightly striped fabrics

in the stash for crosscut inserted roadways.

I even pulled out a yard of Keiko Goke log cabin print

to use for the backing . . . but then things stalled.

Which honestly seems to have been 

my overall reaction to this particular challenge.

Lots of ideas and lots of stall-outs.

It's a worthy challenge but it just hasn't resonated enough

to make we want to cut into my fabrics and make a quilt.  

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To see what has been going on during year fifteen

please visit my blog and use the various 2018 labels 

in my sidebar including AHIQ, RSC, and finishes.

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Now that I consider my Maps and Mapping Challenge done,

I'm looking forward to the two new challenges in 2019.

Quiltdivajulie

Improvisational Map Quilt Wrap Up

With the holidays keeping me busy, I couldn't find enough quiet time to write a summary of the Map Challenge. What a challenge it was. Most of us proceeded {or not} in fits and starts. It was difficult for me to push ideas into fabric. They ran around my head but wouldn't really solidify. Finally I drew my grandparents' neighborhood and freehand pieced them using "family" fabrics.

A map of my grandparents' neighborhood

When my friend, Sue, saw it she said it would make a great placemat. Eureka. It's on the stack for quilting. I will make a second one for DH using a location he finds meaningful.

Everyone else has made much more interesting maps: forests, trails, history, words. So many unique ways to define mapping. I think this is a challenge that will reassert itself over the years. As difficult as it's been, it has also opened new neural pathways, led us to new connections between our feelings and our work.

The Next Challenge

A New Year always brings so many challenges out of the woodwork. There are several interesting ones and we all have our own work. Kaja and I have discussed our next improv idea and hope to combine it with something else. She'll write more about it soon.

Happy New Year!
Ann

Maps AdHoc Improv Challenge

Hello from Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.

Where the weather is sunny with wind and the temperatures have stayed in the 70's this week.

Where is RPV you might ask? West of LA on the west side of the coastal range. 

It has its own micro climate, being right off the Pacific Ocean and so generally cooler and maybe gets a little more fog, mist and wind than the LA Valley.

This week I had time to add the final border to 'City Side Walks' and to get the hand quilting finished up. Next the binding, in the same color as the final border, Kona cotton solid, Wasabi, will get sewn on. I enjoy the colors and names of the Kona cotton solids, can you tell?

I roughly followed Tonye Belinda Phillips' pattern, Welsh Folded Log Cabins, as I've said before.

I used my own construction method, color and block arrangement.

This quilt is my interpretation of the Adhoc improv challenge, Maps.

It reminds me of city sidewalks with houses, townhouses and apts all stacked along city streets and sidewalks.

Also Allison of Cluck Cluck Sew has a wonderful post on 'Why I Quilt'. Thanks Allison, for the encouraging words!

That's the news from the rancho.

Where we are remembering/praying for the people who've lost their homes in Florida.

And being thankful.

I'll be by to visit.

The Beginning of My Maps/Mapping Challenge

This is my most recent finish -- EPICENTER.

48" wide x 64" long

Created using the free from Rail Fence design

from Sujata Shah's Cultural Fusion Quilts book.

This is the fifth free form rail fence quilt I've made

and I challenged myself with a not-shown-in-the-book

layout that involved four different versions 

of the basic freeform rail fence block.

My off center bulls-eye design named itself

almost as soon as the blocks first went on the design wall.

I quilted this with an outward-moving circle,

like ripples on a pond, using a liberated wavy line

rather than the usual smooth evenly-spaced version.

You can read the story on my blog 

behind the decision not to add 

traditional binding HERE

and you can see more photos 

of the quilt in process in THIS POST.

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Click here for image source

I've thought a great deal about Ann's challenge

for the second half of this year.

Rather than creating a new-from-scratch quilt 

based on a map or to represent the mapping of something,

I want to explore the mapping of my own quilting journey

using the quilts I've made along the way

as well as Epicenter and two or three more

that are waiting in the wings.

I want to go back through my annual quilt journals

and choose the quilts that became milestones 

on my now fourteen-year quilting timeline.

I'll share these in a series of posts here

over the next few months.

I think this will be an interesting 

(and perhaps unexpected way)

to explore Ann's challenge 

on a very personal level.

Quiltdivajulie

Preliminary steps for "Maps" challenge

I've decided I want to map my hometown neighborhood.  It is a small section of Logan, Utah that my great grandparents (and great great grandmother) lived in when they immigrated to America from Switzerland 50 years earlier.  It was nicknamed "Little Berlin" because of all the German speaking people even though the majority were of Swiss decent.

So I set out a grid on my wall using painter's tape and post-it notes to get an idea how just how many people lived in this area.  I used the 1910 Census.  And I figured out how many of them spoke German.

It was fun to read some of the family names that were listed there in 1910 because they were still in the neighborhood when I lived there in 1960.

The tape was marked for the streets and the post-it notes had the house numbers.  Some blocks were filled like the green and blue squares above and other blocks only had a couple of families.  The small line is a canal.

This wall model isn't necessarily how the quilt will look.  I just wanted to get a starting off point.  Now to interpret it in cloth somehow.


I saw this early map below of St. Augustine Florida on TV the other night.  I think it's fabulous the way the houses are identified as well as the orchards and gardens.  It's my inspiration piece.  And it's so interesting with just the black and white.

Time will tell what my quilt actually turns into.  My next step is to pull some fabric.
Robin

AHIQ Map Quilts: Month 2

More Ideas and Examples
The longer the map challenge progresses, the more map art I find. Leah Evans' maps sold at the Smithsonian Craft Show and she's appeared on Sewing with Nancy. Many of her works illustrate imaginary places but two that particularly impressed me referenced reality.

Lost Boat mixes maps and Chinese Coins. It relates the discovery of the Arabia which sank before the Civil War and was recently found half a mile inland of the current banks of the Missouri River. Crossing Over maps Gee's Bend, Alabama. Leah was inspired by J. R. Moehringer's book of the same name that described the new ferry:

It won’t look all that dramatic, just a new ferry taking a 63-year-old great-grandmother and her cousins across a Coca-Cola-colored river. But in this damp cellar of the Deep South, where the river has separated blacks and whites for 180 years, where even the living and the dead are less divided than the black and white towns camped on opposite shores, a new ferry will be like the river itself: more than it looks.

What a treat to see another artist honor the proving ground of modern improvisational quilting.


My Work This Month
Everyone has such unique visions of the Map Invitation... everyone but me. I'm so literal. And so limited in my skill set. {Not asking for encouragement. Just noting I'm a 99.9% piecer.} Obviously my skills need to be broadened and developed. Using the same peach fabric with white solid, I pieced small samples of intersections. Valerie Goodwin uses lasers to cut some of her elaborate roadways. Too bad I don't have access to one. Or maybe not. I'd probably burn down the building or put my eye out. I can envision sewing slightly curved streets but reverse appliqu‚é, fusing, or regular appliqué are the only ways I can think of to sew cul-de-sacs, switchbacks, and hairpin turns.

This month I realized I don't need or want a large quilt... yet. I spent quite a while thinking about how to get detail in miniature. How can the broad stroke of piecing convey that? I made sketches on sheets of paper to try to simplify places of personal significance. I'm starting with the simplest one in hopes it can be pieced.

Finding focus for a map quilt

Even that has had issues as I struggle to find a cropping that interests me without becoming too intricate to create in a smaller scale. Living on the plains means many towns are laid out in a grid. That makes it easy to sew but perhaps lacking interest. This area, although mostly gridded, has offset and angled streets.

I pulled some fabric. I love the plaids and stripes Kaja is using but hoped I had enough florals and conversation prints for this one. When I searched the stash, most of my florals had white backgrounds. If I use those they need charcoal roads. There were smaller groups of blues which might work with white roads and greens which probably need brown roads.

Fabric choices for map quilt

Continuing in the 20-minute style, I'm waiting a while to decide.

Thanks, Ann

Trails In The Woods

As a child I loved pretending I was a maiden living in the woods. I built my very own fort on the ground in a small circle that had about 6 - 8 small saplings growing. I cut down smaller saplings to wind them in between the growing trees to make my fort. Later on, as I grew more, the shape of sapling fort took on a semi roof and the ground inside the circle of trees became trodden with so much activity the grass didn't grow anymore. It was my escape to my own queendom in the woods of rural B.C.

Rural living means knowing the important trails you've found that lead to yummy things to eat. Its very important to know where food is at certain times of the year. With trails trodden so many times that even the animals start to use them, its exciting to imagine who you'll meet on the trail.

Maps of these locations are made in your memories, First People know well their trails to trap lines, good fishing spots, to the meadows where moose will be or the mountains where sheep will be. 

I have a very good book to share called "One Thousand White Women" by Jim Fergus. A true story of an peace agreement between USA Government at the time and the bargain they made with with the Cheyenne Nation for peace and one thousand white women to become brides Cheyenne warriors, traded for their finest horses.

Food and water is paramount to survival in the woods. 

This post and challenge has become something of a true walk down memory lane, maps for me until I met my husband, were memories in my mind on trails to walk to town or walk to a good fishing spot. What the trail looked like to my friends who lived miles away, but a path was trodden between our homes. Quilts are like too, they remain, get used, loved and become threadbare.But we continue to use them.

This facination with trails may have begun when my Mother instilled in me a fear of roads where bad men could be. Over the past 30 years, Highway 16 has seen the mysterious disappearance of dozens of Indigenous women. I am sadden to understand that the same roads my Mother warned me about are these roads where not only Indigenous women, but also men and white women have dissappered. Mother knew there was something bad happening on that road and that was 50 years ago.

I began with total improvisational hand stitching onto a background. More trails are coming out of this start. Stay tuned!

Thank you ladies of AHIQ Improvisational group for inviting me to participating!

Best,

It's Not Maps, But It Feels Like Progess

Quilting has been a little sporadic this summer. The latest Map challenge definitely sounds intriguing, but somehow my brain refuses to come up with any real way forward. The lightbulb is not going off. So I've decided to continue work on my open ended improv. projects for the moment and just try to be prepared for the eventuality of a map idea!

Score #5

I've had two open-ended improv. projects this summer that sort of stalled out. One is the Score #5 from Sherri Lynn Woods Improv. Handbook and the other is something that refers back to an AHIQ Playing with Scale challenge, and funnily enough, might also tie into Score #6 in Sherri's book. I just love when projects merge like that, so nice and convenient!

Score #5 has been very challenging on several different fronts. For one, I don't tend to follow directions very well so no real surprise when I immediately bogged down with the 'formula'. No problem, I just used the pictures as a guide. Yeah, well, I got it all wrong right away but decided to just forge ahead regardless.

That brought me up to the permeable borders which are a really important part of this quilt. Right off the bat I realized that my quilt was far too short for adding on the proper proportion of the would-be borders. Ugghh.. So I packed it up for a time and then much later, on a whim late one evening {the main reason there is no progress pics}, decided to tackle the quilt again. Amazing how working across the bottom, in a horizontal path, made it all seem so much more 'doable'. Something to remember in the future.

Then finally, I girded up my loins one day and pushed on with the border area. The left side went together so quickly it felt like a joke. Then the right side? Not so easy. It didn't need to be identical and in fact, like the original quilt portrayed, I didn't even want the fabrics to repeat very much. Using the floral fabric, which felt like a fantastic idea in theory, made the balancing act all the more precarious. Needless to say, that side took a whole lot longer than the other before I felt satisfied that it all sort of 'worked' and played nicely with each other.

Not having a large design wall definitely intensified my struggles. Not being able to follow directions very well for sure complicated things, gave me obstacles to overcome in the piecing and 'flow'. Working in random times and not keeping on top of it interrupted the flow too. I'm actually sort of surprised this is now a completed quilt top. Yay for the determined quilter! And yes, I have straightened and neatened this quilt top since taking pictures. Not squared it, no, that may be impossible--but tidied it for sure. Now it's on to the other one still in the works. Can't be giving up on the improv.!

Years Eleven and Twelve (2014 -2015)

In early 2014 I created this wall quilt named

Create With Abandon

using leftover liberated free pieced letters from Lynne.

It was juried into a number of AQS shows

and now hangs on the wall in my design studio.

Using more leftover orphans and orts from Lynne

and free pieced words from Lee Ann aka Nifty Quilts,

I created my quilt named What Matters Most.

This photo was taken in New Hampshire

during my visit with Lynne in 2014.

The quilt would later travel with me to Chattanooga

for a photo op with Lee Ann at the AQS show.

2014 was also the year of the three Celebrations quilts

made for our nephews and their families.

(Warning -this is what happens when you purchase

 TOO MUCH Laurel Burch holiday fabric . . . )

And as 2014 came to a close,

my sister "purchased" three of my quilts 

and Christmas gifted them to her in-laws.

Left to right:

Granny Smith, Summer Sorbet, and Tickled Pink.

During 2015 I continued to make quilts 

from Sujata Shah's Cultural  Fusion Quilts book.

This is No Ugly Flowers

made from her Peppermint Pinwheels design.

This is Midtown Vibe made for our younger son's bed

using her Rail Fence design.

And this is Azaleas in Bloom 

made with a saree and silks brought from Asia by our DIL 

using her Windmills / Winter designs.

When our oldest nephew and wife 

learned their third child would be a girl,

they requested a very pink quilt.

Girly Girl was the result.

Inspired by Teresa Rawson's 

X Marks the Block tutorial.

(permanent link in the sidebar)

And during 2015, I finished the six quilts

started during 2014, my first year with 

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

This is Arrowheads.

And this is Fruit Loops -

which has recently been gifted

to my brother-in-law.

The Eclectic Goose

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Umbrellas Unfurled

I'll be teaching a week long class for this one

in September 2019

at the John C. Campbell Folk School.

And Happy Happy Joy Joy aka HHJJ.

Another interpretation using 

Teresa's X Marks the Block design.

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I'm very glad I chose this retrospective

approach to the Maps and Mapping challenge

instead of designing and piecing another quilt.

It has been most interesting

to navigate through my own quilting journey.

And there are still three more years

to share before reaching the present day.

Quiltdivajulie