Chicago Modern Quilt Guild Oak Park, Illinois, United States
This is one in my series of yearly quilts, where since 2014 I have tracked goals, habits, and personal practices, documenting them through patchwork, handwriting, and embroidery. For 2021 I decided to simply track the days in my patchwork, nothing more. Each log cabin block represents three months, moving through the year clockwise around the quilt. I used a strip of goldenrod yellow on the 23rd day of each month, a way of marking time. I picked the 23rd day because of my birthday, September 23, which I love! I wrote about notable events from the year, big and small, mentioning things I did 4 times, 30 times, 365 times, countless times. I copied entries from my daily line-a-day journal. I embroidered all these words around the border of my quilt. The result is a unique record of my year, similar to other quilts in this series but different too.
