Days of wine, roses and castles

This small quilt recalls some very happy memories of when my daughters were young. We had a boat and travelled the canals during the summer holidays. As a family we had huge fun with "Cats Paw", which we kept for  several years. We sold the boat when we moved house twenty years ago.

The photos featured here date from 1990 and our summer holiday that year. The small figure on the back of the boat with me is my younger daughter, then aged 6.

I should explain, that the "roses and castles" of the title refer to the style of decoration on narrowboats on the canals in England and Wales. The decoration on "Cats Paw" is not really quite in the same tradition - I preferred to paint cheerful daisies. I must also apologise for the dreadful photograph. I shall try taking another photo once the weather improves here - the daylight is so dull at the moment.

My take on Those were the days

As Kelly mentioned in her post, we are on a quilting roll :-). This is my version of the challenge. I have to admit I did not know the movie, but Google is a great help. My interpretation of this theme was more literal.
The red background represents wine. The roses are painted on the fabric using a template and for the text I used foamies and paintsticks. Because of the color of the background no matter which red I picked they all did not show up enough, so I had to convert to white wine. A piece of rust dyed fabric had just the perfect pattern. Organza was used for the falling glass.
It was a difficult theme, but I loved the challenge of it.