These days — or in this time of my life — my favorite way to make a quilt is to make one of out Orphan Blocks, as I’ve written about before. They are a bit like putting a jigsaw puzzle together without an image available beforehand and using mismatched pieces. Sometimes I run into big trouble and when I’m done with one for a few days I’ve feel like my brain has melted.
A good friend of mine recently suggested that maybe this method of quilt-making was actually my attempt to put together and make sense of the various pieces of my life: childhood in India, boarding school, serious illnesses, a stint in Nepal which ended in failure, marriage, motherhood, cross-country as well as trans-global moves and so on. An insight that is worth considering.
In the meantime, here are a few pics of the latest one, quilted, bound, and ready to be used, with thanks to Kevin for holding it high in a couple images.
The professional long-armer suggested the circle motif for the quilting and I think she chose well.
Sings the Raven 
What a beautiful quilt and soooo much work went into it! Keep up the good work, Rebecca!
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Thank you. I will as long as my stash holds out. Or my hands hold up. Whichever comes first.
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