When I was asked to sew a memory quilt for the 20 year celebration of the Centaur Retirement Community, I didn't know what to expect but I soon found the project rather exciting. Creating a design to best tell a story with the variety of shapes and sizes of the old photographs and newspaper clippings was quite challenging. I found designing the quilt to look balanced, with all those shapes that had different stories to tell over the years, took days of day-dreaming and planning. Needing to use the colours of the RSL Care logo added another challenge but they did help to give the layout a clear definition between commemorative, memorial, publicity and happy snaps. Altogether, I'm pleased with the result and I hope the residents of the Centaur Retirement Community are also.
