Life Quilt : Determination

For the holidays I finished a landscape painting of Artist Point for my son and a portrait of my dog trainer's pet a Golden Retriever named Bling. So I decided to go back to painting quilt patterns and add to my Life Quilt series.

The fourth in the series, Determination is a star pattern.I am not sure of the specific name of the design.  This quilt piece is to honor those diagnosed with colon cancer so I decided to use dark blue the awareness color for colon cancer.

I picked up a new book of quilt patterns at a sale at the Cranbury Bookworm bookstore and look forward to trying my hand at a few log cabin patterns.


Dee
Every Day is a Blessing!

Third Painting in my Life Quilt Series- Strength

Just the other day I finished painting my third Life Quilt painting. I started painting after my initial diagnosis in 2005.

The colors in this painting which I titled Strength are purple the awareness color for pancreatic cancer and grey the awareness color for brain cancer . I chose to use those colors in memory of my cousin Charlie S who had brain cancer and family friend Roy D who had pancreatic cancer. Both men showed such strength when facing their cancers.

The quilt design is called friendship star. 

You can view my other quilt paintings here and here.

I'm going to take a break and paint a landscape but will be back painting quilts very soon. 

Dee

Every Day is a Blessing!

PS For those who noticed a little blog layout change what do you think? 

Second Painting in my Life Quilt Series- Courage

I completed the first painting in the series I call Life Quilts last year. The series combines quilt square designs with cancer awareness colors and ribbons. The first painting is called Hope and uses teal, the ovarian cancer awareness color. I wrote about it here . I will be using that painting in a future fundraising campaign for the Cancer Institute of New Jersey . More details about that campaign tomorrow. Please check back.

Yesterday, I finished the second in the painting series. This one is called Courage and incorporates pink the color for breast cancer awareness.

I painted Courage in honor of my sister ,Roberta and also 5 friends recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Roberta faced her cancer diagnosis and treatment with Courage and she showed me the path to follow. Thank you , Bert.

Dee

Every Day is a Blessing!