After making my first wall hanging with pictures from Prague, I wanted to make another wallhanging that would give the feeling of the "old country". I decided to use velvet, tapestry, silk, and tatting. My first idea was to use a background consisting of nine squares; placing my grandmother's family in the middle and the pictures of her and her sister surrounding it along with pictures we took in Prague.
It just didn't seem right. It was just too...not what I kept envisioning.
I took it apart and reduced it to six squares, kept the family picture as the main focus, and added three pictures we took in Prague. I think the wallhanging has a better flow to it having made it narrower and making the family picture larger than the other pictures. The tatted medallions and the embroidered words also help to move your eye around the quilt. This quilt has a much different feel than my other quilt with the Prague pictures; same theme, two very different quilts.
Prague is such a beautiful old city, pictures do not do it justice. Leaving Prague and coming to the USA had to have been a big adjustment for my Grandmother.
This is a picture of my grandmother, probably around the time she came to the states.
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