The Quiet Road

There's a kind of quiet the descends on the house after children leave; it's a weird stillness that settles around you like a blanket, one that's impossible to shake off. You're aware of the hush all over again each time you pick up a forgotten Lego, book or sock from its resting place left in their wake. It's the same every time, sweet memories of time shared together filling up the empty spots and spaces that only days before were filled with activity and punctuated with laughter, jokes, music and hugs. Today is one of those days. I completed a quilt top last week, a Yellow Brick Road pattern made up of low-volume prints with an autumn theme. I'm calling this one "The Quiet Road". Sometimes a super-easy pieced quilt top is just the thing to satisfy that need to sew and desire to accomplish more than weeding the flower bed or vacuuming the house, those things that become all-too-soon undone. Sure, I've already got a sizable queue of quilts-to-be-quilted in the closet but this was begging to be completed, it was jumping up and down with its hand raised shouting whispering loudly "pick me, pick me" from the stack of UFO's. I'm pleased to have listened ; the result is vintage-y in appearance and calming by nature.

"The Quiet Road" ~ 57" X 75"

I've chosen a dark orange for the backing and a meandering pumpkin pantograph for the quilting, in burnt orange thread. Isn't it ironic how sometimes it's the quiet things that should, seemingly, fade into the background and remain unnoticed; but, instead, they grab all of your attention and move themselves forward? 

That's the way today is~ it's the silence that's wrapped itself around me. 

It's a peace that has filled my heart providing energy for planning that next noisy adventure;

sometimes we need only take a stroll down a quiet road to show us where and what we require!

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Life is Good!