Sew Much Love

Hello Sunshine!

We celebrated our second wedding anniversary the other day - ahhh so in love!

The second anniversary was traditionally celebrated with 'cotton' gifts.
So... Sew... i have sewn a patchy quilt to the very brim with love!

The finished quilt!

I have never made a quilt before and really it is full of puckers and dodgy seams and mismatched this and that but i don't care a smidgen! There are no quilting inspectors inspecting it, just me and my lovely husband to cuddle beneath it and probably the cat too! 

And in the final sewing moments when i just accepted all of the wonky 'mistakes' i had made i realised i was also accepting myself- isn't art making an amazing thing! It always reflects something about us, always teaches and gently shows us the way if we are willing to pay attention and really listen with our hearts.

Fabric is chosen and ripped and cut into squares

* Please Note * This is not the place to learn how to make a quilt AT ALL!

I have had no instruction in making quilts... in fact whenever i have even tried to look at instructions they were so full of rules and restrictions i felt stifled and fled in fear. But if you would like to sew some patches of love together to wrap yourself in maybe you might find something helpful here :)

I chose fabrics from my wedding dress, my hen dress, cat fabric for our little mew, soccer fabric for Rays love of the game, cottons i had dyed, old pillows, Eiffel tower fabric for our romantic honeymoon and a patch from a sleeping beauty pillow - we danced to a song from that movie, plus other scrappy bits that fitted in with the colour scheme - Ray likes black and purple.

Rows and rows were sewed and sewed all wonky and wobbly. I now understood why all the fabric had to be exactly the same size but alas the thought of measuring every square was horrendous so i just sewed and sewed and poured lots of love into every little stitch - it will just have to be wobbly!

I used a flat sheet for backing and organic bamboo wadding for the middle and stitched it all together like a sandwich on my fancy new Singer sewing machine - perfect timing thank you lovely husband!

Popped in a box and tied up with love, happy 2 years my Love!! 

Max and the Box

The Cats tick of approval!

We then grabbed our picnic basket  and went to beautiful Kings Park also known as Mt Eliza. Moora Katta and Kaarta Gar-up are the Aboriginal names the indigenous Nyoongar people gave the area. It has long been a sacred ceremonial and cultural land to the Whadjuk tribe and you can feel that energy when you are there. The land sings to you, it is a very beautiful space - the perfect space to renew our hand-fasting this year!

It is such a lovely thing to not just celebrate an anniversary but to fill the time with ritual and magik and revisit what we each want to bring to the relationship and what we might like to work on for the following year and a day. I do think the ritual is part of what keeps our marriage fresh and alive!

Because we chose to celebrate with the pagan ritual and ceremony of a hand-fasting, each year on our anniversary we have the joy of hand-fasting again for another year and a day.
Picnics, parks and rituals - these are a few of my favourite things!

I hope you have abundant opportunities to celebrate the love in your life 
And happy permission to make wonky wobbly patchy quilts of love everyone :D