Designing quilts is what Lez likes.

I suppose many of you who follow this website are now aware that my wife Lezley is experiencing short-term memory loss. It is frustrating for both of us, but I keep Lez living in the moment.

Many of you know that dementia and Alzheimers generally starts with near term loss, while the rest of memory is largely untouched. So it is with Lezley and so it was with my mother and her father.

What Lezley is portraying here in a quilt design is the gradual loss of memory that my mother experienced. I think it is a powerful and wonderful way of displaying the gradual loss of memory.

The sewing machine and mid-arm machine will no doubt be smoking in her sewing room over the next while.

I am working on a memory quilt. It will be a layout consisting of a couple of rows of photos of hubby's mom whom we called Oma. She was born in the Netherlands, and emigtrated to Canada with her hubby and children. Her children and grandchildren are now spread around North America. I am planning to enter the quilt in the next Canadian Quilters' Association (CQA) quilt conference scheduled for 2025.