Retracing my steps

This month is the last month for Snip.Sew.Send. and Anne (from Film & Thread) asked for blocks of maps or inspired by maps. She sent this fabric to guide the color palette.



I thought it'd be fun for this one to retrace my steps around the country. I grew up in Minnesota and if you follow the arrows around, you can see that I moved to California for college and during college spent time living in New York City and then outside Philadelphia. After returning to California, I moved back to Minnesota and then to upstate New York where I am now.





It's kind of crazy to see where I've lived on a map like this. I hope Anne likes how it came together.



To share a little of the process, here's the map I printed out in order to trace the states and figure out the arrow paths. I machine appliqued the states and then I embroidered the blue outline and the all of the arrows.