Purple Prose : Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Sept. 2009

SirsiDynix executives announced that the company would do a fundraiser for JDRF. The local office said that they would do a raffle and called for raffle items and other fundraising ideas. Even though I no longer work there, I volunteered to make a raffle quilt.

Purple Prose is made from "Turning Twenty" pattern blocks, a dozen of which I won several years ago from the 20th anniversary party of the Heritage Quilters of Huntsville. I made 8 additional blocks, including the purple unicorn fabric from my friend Lisa in a tribute to the Sirsi software we all spent so many years working with.

Each of the twenty blocks is embroidered in a different color and font with a synonym for purple: amethyst, aubergine, eggplant, grape, heather, heliotrope, hyacinth, indigo, iris, lavender, lilac, magenta, mauve, orchid, periwinkle, plum, puce, violet, wine, wisteria.