Iysha's Tesselation

This year's Quilt of Dreams quilt was influenced by a number of factors. First, as I was getting ready to look at the fabric, a 2 year old girl passed away in our old ward. I wasn't really close to her family but her story really affected me. I have never named a quilt after a person before, this is the first one. These are all the things she could have learned and I loved the idea that this was a quilt of knowledge. I began selecting blues and purples representing water and the sky. I decided on a tesselated pattern that really had a lot of movement to the eye.
The next factor was looking at the dreams of the children. A few of them said that their dream was to go to high school. I started thinking that I could put high school into the quilt. I doodled and looked up references for things from high school. I made a list of subjects and started filling in information you would learn and fun things about high school. I ended up with more than I thought and a lot of fun things went into this quilt.
Biology - a plant and an animal cell, a heart
Chemistry - part of the periodic table
Math - the tesselation, also acute, obtuse and right angles.
Art - a pre-raphaelite painting by Millais (thanks for the book Dad)
P.E. - footballs, baseball and a badminton set.
History - I put three WWII planes a British Hawker Hurricane, a Japanese Zero and a U.S. P-61 Black Widow. I also wrote about the Berlin wall. There is also, and this was for my mom, Charlamagnes throne.
German - a few words
English - a quote from Shakespeare and one from Charles Dickens.
I also put in a locker and some fun things about high school.

Around the edges was a list of classes and also a list of some clubs from school.
In the end the quilting turned out to be more what I did in high school so at the very bottom I put FIS class of 92. I had a lot of fun making this quilt and it became very personal.