As a woman who was a 62 year old spinster, I’m not much of a romantic. But life is about surprises. It’s almost our 10th reunion. Don was the biggest surprise of my life.

He’s also impossible to buy any thing for. He wears clothes he’s had for over 10 years. If I buy him toys or tools, he rarely uses them.

I don’t quite understand that, but I find married life is not about understanding, necessarily. It’s about accepting. And enjoying the differences.

He does like cards.

I’m not a paper person. For years I’ve worked with fabric, and it’s my media. I make him cards in cloth.

These aren’t my art quilts. They’re funky, and sentimental,, and full of commercial fabric. And the fabric of our lives. But if we can’t be silly…..well, you have to be a bit silly. So here is his current collection.

They say you spend the first part of your life figuring out who you are, and the last part stretching into the other parts These quilts are that stretch. They’re a measure of Don more than myself, who is much more of a romantic.