Patches of Destruxion

 Hello everybody! It was my brother's 40th birthday last month, and I made him this little mini quilt in celebration. This post is about the construction of the mini quilt, for my quilty friends and readers. For anyone who knows, or would like to know about Alex as a person and the meaning behind all the embroidery symbols can read my previous post here . The central panel is needleturn appliqué. I chose blue and yellow as they reminded me of the colour scheme my mother used when making quilts for my brother as a child. needleturn appliqué letter A I made 40 2-inch square hand embroideries representing things about Alex.  embroidery in progress Half are on black and half on white, and I arranged them in a chequerboard effect, as a tribute to his skills at chess (also represented by one of the embroideries). I traced some off computer screens (which is actually quite tricky, and others were copied in a more freehand style, or following online tutorials, with several practice go...

 Hello Everyone! My big brother, Alex, turned 40 on the 27th November! I made him a little mini-quilt to celebrate. I only came up with the idea 9 days before his birthday, which theoretically should have been enough time to get it done, but life is not that simple, so I finally got it finished and sent off about three weeks late. He opened it alongside his Christmas presents, so I can now share pics of it. I came up with the idea of doing 40 small embroidered squares, with pictures representing all the different things Alex does and loves. As the sister nearest in age to Alex, I have the most memories of our shared childhood, but I would like to thank our two sisters, Vanessa and Caroline, for helping me with ideas for these.  So this post is to celebrate the wonder that is Alex, and let you know the stories behind all the images! Here are 40 things to know about Alex... 1 Today in... This is how Alex starts all his FB posts! So it was clearly how this needed to be started. E...