It was just before the holiday season when I stopped to have dinner with my son in Chicago. My creative mind was in the "off" mode at the time, and he suggested that I start a quilt called "Hockey Garden." Of course I immediately dismissed the idea, because I have already made a hockey quilt.
Hockey Mom was made years back when both my sons were playing hockey and my husband was coaching. Hockey was all that was discussed in our house that particular year. I did have great fun making this quilt and it is my only self portrait.
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| Hockey Mom, quilt (c) Ann Fahl made in 1996, 39.5 x 41 inches. Also pictured in Quilter's Newsletter Dec '96 |
But as time passed by, I decided that I had a really good idea for a hockey
garden quilt. The next few posts will show the piece in progress. You
may recall my post called the World's Most
Expensive Free Rose Bush? A year or two ago, my neighbor gave me a start from her grandmother's old fashioned rose
bush, and I used my son's broken hockey sticks to keep it under
control. I decided to take this same idea and make it into a small
quilt.
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| Here is the rose bush, surrounded by the expensive broken hockey sticks! |
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| Background of the new quilt Hockey Garden. |
So here is the beginning of my next quilt. I've pieced together a sky
background, the foreground is a little bit of garden soil and grass. My idea is to have a garden of fragrant flowers growing in and around some smelly hockey gear. Only mother's with hockey players will truly understand this.
Here is the hockey bag which is central to the life of a hockey player because it contains all of their expensive equipment. No matter how often the stuff is washed there is always a very strong unpleasant aroma attached to it. The bag is also central to my future garden as a planter.
There will be more later.
Ann Fahl
