Northeast Gardening: nap 'n me on a day trip to Ontario, 1 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
Eleanor, yep, I made the quilt. There's a story you guys might find interesting. It's a Y2K charm quilt. The idea behind a charm quilt is that each square must be a different fabric. So an internet quilt group I belonged to decided that for the turnover to Y2K we should make a quilt with 2000 different fabrics. Well, in order to get 2000 different fabrics you almost have to trade with other quilters. So then it was decided that each quilter would include a signature square with their name and where they were from. Then somebody said they were going to try to get a signature square from all 50 states. Somebody else wanted all the Canadian provinces, too. Somebody was collecting as many foreign countries as possible.

If you notice in Nancy's picture the ring of white squares, those are the signatures ...starting at the top is Alaska...to the right in alpha order are all 50 states, to the left are some of the Canadian provinces (I got Nunavet, which was just made a province that year!) and some countries...Switzerland, Austria, South Africa, to name a few. It was great fun and I'm sure I spent a bundle of money, but it was well worth it. Each quilter designed their own quilt. There was a show in Texas, but I didn't finish in time. I told Nancy I don't know if I would have wanted to ship mine down there. Taking a chance on losing it is more than I could stand, I think. There is a pattern on the back, too. A lot of the fabric companies made Y2K fabrics which will also be collectible some day. I included quite a few of them, and also the leftover signature squares that didn't fit on the front. There are story blocks that tell about the quilt and a title block 'Peace Around the World ~ 2000'