It's spring, it's springI

Someone I worked with wrote this headline years ago. We mocked him. Then I married him.

Here's a happy spring string quilt. I bought it in the spring, many years ago, when I lived in what felt like a very foreign place, the South. For a midwestern girl, it was not home. Strange accents. Strange ideas. Kinda scary.

I bought this quilt along the roadside in South Carolina. I was going to visit my a college buddy who had landed in a strange place too. South Carolina, with a husband studying to be a chiropractor.

This quilt was hanging on a clothesline. I couldn't have paid much for it, as I didn't have much money to spare then. It measures 70" x 64". The string-pieced bowtie blocks are 7 1/2" x 8" square, with string pieced bowties. The predominant striped fabric is seersucker. It's machine pieced and hand quilted with wonderful rough stitches. The very white seller told me his 90-year-old grandma made it.

It hung on our apartment wall in Zirndorf, Germany when we were first married. It looked so swell with our landlord's gold couch beneath it and light streaming in from the windows. How about those sawtooths along one edge. Isn't it the best!