In Summer after 2nd grade, my mother was a college student at Northeastern State College. (Today it is Northeastern State University). There, I attended a Summer School program, the students of which were mostly comprised of the children of professors and the children of students. My mistake-- I traised my hand when they asked which students were third graders because that is what I was going to be. Apparently, that got me into the class of students who would be moving along to fourth grade. For a couple of days I attended in the older classroom, and then realized I was in with the older kids, so the teachers moved me back to my age mates.
That was the summer that I learned to play hopscotch. We'd draw boxes on the sidewalk of the Old Bagley Building at NSU, and hop as many squares inside the lines as we could.
This is a quilt top I named Hopscotch. See the alternating footpath? Our hopscotch grid was never this simple or regular. This top features a good bit of fun hand-dyed cotton fabric. Imagine that each square is sort of a full-color rohrschach test. I see one that looks like Earth, Cherry Fudge Sundae, Stormclouds, Looking Into Water. I make up names for the tiedyed and hand-dyed panels and strips that I create. It helps me to keep them straight about what might go where when I am quilting.
(This small quilt top is for sale $75 as-is. If someone would like to buy it fully-finished, the price would be $350 to include a choice of batting, backing, thread color, machine quilt pattern (or freehand) and shipping.)
