Laowai

I feel like my grandma Dice has been getting lots of mentions on my blog lately. I've been trying to go through stuff in our house and get rid of things I don't need. Things that I didn't want to take to Switzerland and yet couldn't seem to part with when we moved. And now I'm sorting again and a lot of things make me think "gosh, if I didn't miss it for three years why am I hanging onto it?" And yet… this old quilt! I can't part with it. It's typical of the style of quilt that grandma made. Sort of a freeform block style with lots of random fabrics. And she always tied her quilts with yarn. 

The pieces of the quilt above are in pretty good shape but really the whole quilt is filled with frayed and torn bits of fabric – like below. So it's not a quilt that I want to display on a bed or the back of the sofa because it's looking so shabby and faded. I'm just too sentimental to get rid of it. So for now I'll fold it up and tuck it into a closet.