Sillygoose Wish you were Here - I belong to a Stitch group where we occasionally design a Challenge for ourselves. This was to be titled "Wish you were Here." I decided to render portraits of my parents using tsinko inks and surround them with scanned portions of their letters to one another during their long (49 year) military marriage that included about 20 years of separation. I have boxes of those letters and the family treasures them, of course. Once the drawings were done and surrounded by the letter fragments, I designed a red border crazy quilt style, and added a blue star in the center. I wanted the finished quilt to resemble the banners shown around town in the homes of those who have a soldier serving overseas. The quilt won the "Martha's Choice" award at the Heritage Quilters of Huntsville bi-annual quilt show in 2005.