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On Saturday evening Miranda and Jeremy arrived in Dover at "our" house.
Only some fraction of an hour earlier mom and dad had walked through the
door. It was planned this way of course. Annalisa and I were knowing and
willing parties to those plans, but there was more to it than we realized
and we were deceived.
Brought by my mother was a big bulging bag. It was portentously pink,
cheery colored, and festively floral... slightly at odds with the foggy
funk featured out of doors. It overflowed with pastel paper suggesting
(to me at least) a delicate contents.
I gave it a shove to judge it's weight and inquired as to it's purpose and
innards... only to be told we must wait for Miranda to arrive. I
naturally assumed therefore that whatever was contained within the
optimistic packaging, was hers.
As the pictures will show and as I alluded to earlier, I was deceived!
Perhaps a less nefarious synonym would be hoodwinked, tricked, and/or
simply surprised?
Annalisa and I were instructed to untie, open, and empty the bag after
which a gloriously colorful, intricate, and personalized quilt fell into
our hands! It seems that Miranda and Mom had come up with the idea of
creating a "comfort" quilt for us. One that would remind us that while we
were living in that single room of Grandmom's house, our tribulation was
recognized and we were being thought of. A whirlwind effort ensued and
the patchwork brought together in record time across a distance hundreds
of miles.
The designers probably best tell the story of the color scheme but as I
understand it, there was difficulty in deciding which of our general color
preferences to accommodate. I prefer the cool effect of blue and green
while Annalisa is enamoured by the warmth of orange and earth tone. Both
are valid preferences and so logically both had to be included. Their
excellent color sense dictated that mixing the two would not produce a
satisfactory effect but separating the two from each other via the
opposite dimensions of top and bottom, did.
Hereafter we have a "winter and summer" quilt, a "Stefan and Annalisa"
quilt, a "his and hers" quilt, "now and then" quilt, or what have you and
what will you... quilt for all time(s).
We couldn't be happier about it.
Thank you very much!
Love,
Annalisa and Stefan
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