Summer Artistic Pursuits

Here are the front and back views of the quilt I made for the woman out of her late husband's t-shirts.  The colors are much brighter than the pictures show, which were very similar to her husbands paintings.

 Because of Jonathan's interest in butterflies (We currently have several caterpillars in various stages of development in jars to watch the transformation process), I had to make a butterfly quilt when I found these batik blocks in a local quilt shop.

This is Jonathan with a rug that Wayne made using a school assignment Jon did when he was younger.  Wayne loved the way Jon wrote the alphabet, squeezing in letters when he realized he was running out of room on the paper.  Wayne decided a rug would be a neat way to preserve Jon's early writings and he incorporated a bit of symbolism in the background color scheme.  All those changing colors are symbolic for Jonathan's attention span--some thoughts run on and on, while others are very brief.  Ah-h-h the joys of Asperger's Syndrome and the blessings of our boy Jonathan!