Summer Fair

I love the idea of a Summer Fair online for those of us who don't have a county fair to attend.  I hopped on with GenX Quilters, where you can click to see lots more quilts and also some recipes.

I didn't have an original recipe to share, but I will tell you that I've been cooking a lot from Gina's blog, Skinnytaste, and have not had a bad meal yet!  Check her out.

The quilt I'm sharing was made so many years ago, I don't even think I can remember a date.  I have always loved log cabin quilts and the combination of blue, yellow, and white.  I was inspired to make it by the blue and white lighthouse fabric on the back, and determined to make it a sunny, beachy looking quilt.

At the same time, I was working through some of my anxiety about getting pregnant again after several miscarriages, as well as my grief over a friend's loss of a newborn after several early pregnancy losses.  While I was piecing the top to this, I also wrote this poem:

A Subsequent Pregnancy is Like a Week at the Beach...

My love and desire for you are blinding like the flash of the sun off sea and sand

So overwhelming 

That to bask in the warmth of its glow is to risk being burned

Off I go

Full of hope and fantasies

Imagining a perfect experience - just like the ones in books!

Every moment of joy has a mirror image

When I feel I am accomplishing nothing

That this journey will change nothing

Time is warped and strange

One moment I look up to find the trip is half way over

Later I realize that what feels like hours has been mere minutes

I catch myself both dreading and anticipating the ending

"What if" -ing myself to death

Wondering and dreaming

And when the end finally comes

I am exhausted but fulfilled

Flooded with memories

Even thinking about how the next time will be better

While simultaneously vowing

Never to go again

I stagger home

Finally

Grateful to be in my own bed

And then, of course, sometimes, it rains.

Jennifer Gillen Greer

In loving memory of Jacob Evan, 3/30/1998, 

who taught me how to do it right and gave me the courage to try again

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