I was just thinking about this quilt the other day. I don’t know where it’s physical location is these days and will probably never know. But I searched my photos app for “jeep” and this is one of the photos that showed up so at least I have a pic. Go figger.

I made this quilt for my little brother’s 40th birthday. He was stressing about that and people at his work were making jokes about black balloons. I was struck by the idea to make him a black balloon quilt. This was a gamble but my hope was I could make it funny. I *think* I succeeded.

I chose to make “crazy quilt” squares of things he liked or that defined him in some way. Dogz, cars, skiing, music (TROMBONES!). At the bottom middle is “The new morning look!” That would be him one morning at the moomincabin when his (young) daughters were harassing him and he mugged a fugly face at them, then said, “It’s the new morning look”. I fergit the exact circumstances but we all totally cracked up as FinFam folks are wont to do even when it might not be appropriate. The central square is rainbow-colored dogz and black balloons.

This is kinda gaudy. *I* can be kinda gaudy. And it’s a little wonky in terms of perfectly straight seams, etc. I definitely got some sewing DNA but not sure I got a perfection gene to go with that. I think that skipped a generation down to my mouse. But then again, some of the internet quilters I admire the most do not do “perfectly” seamed quilts but are also very artistic. There’s room for any and all approaches in the fiber arts world, not to mention in *art*. And I define art very loosely. There’s plenty of room for art in so-called STEM fields, for example.

So how did Photos serve up this pic today since I had been recently wondering where the quilt was? Did God hear my “prayer”/idle thought??? Naw. I think AI(?) picked up a little car in the right middle block and decided that was a jeep. Not gonna talk about AI tonight…

P.S. A funny for tonight. The GG is plotting a mid-June trip to do some surveying in the Adirondacks with his buddy Joan. I said, “That sounds okay, it’ll be shelling pea season here.” At least an hour later, he asked, “Is there really a spelling bee season?” 🤣🤪😵‍💫

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