Remember the post about 'To Boston With Love'?

Remember this post about the 'To Boston With Love' opportunity that I participated in?

 

Well, it was installed in the Modern Fine Arts, Boston Museum this past weekend and looks amazing!!!  The total number on contributors was 1756 from all around the world!  The dreamer of this little endeavour was Berene Campbell from Vancouver and a member of the Vancouver Modern Quilter's Guild of which I also belong. I happen to be #27.  They are up to 70 members now and will be celebrating their third birthday in June.  Or should I say 'we are celebrating?'  It's time I belong.

 

We heard the story of how it all started from a simple little dream... yes a real dream that Berene had just after the Boston Marathon bombing that she explains about here.  Recap (not nearly as interesting as Berene's)... she dreamt that she had made a little flag and sent it to Boston.  When she woke up she realised that this was a really special idea but she didn't know anyone in Boston so she connected with the movers and shakers at the VMQG and they knew of a woman named Amy Friend.  A hook up happened... some emails were sent giving dimensions and some specifics and the clarification that absolutely anyone could make a flag.  I'm still a bit nervous about joining in the challenges at the VMQG but thought this was a really good cause and I could only do my best.  So my angel wing applique was born and created and delivered.  Through a series of events which I won't explain here, it turned out that the MFA Boston was willing to have these flags in the museum as an installation that would go up the Saturday of the Memorial Day weekend and the day that the Boston marathon participants who had not been able to finish the marathon because of the bombings were invited to come back to the city to complete their run.  One blog posting about the invitation to make flags led to another and another and wrapped it's cyber arms around the world ending with Berene and Amy laden with 1756 flags and heading into the museum with the huge task of dreaming up how to install.  Many of us hooked up to both of their instagram feeds and watched the consistent postings of the progression of the installation. 

 

My flag contribution looked like this close up.

 

 

Below is part of the installation and if you look really, really close you will see a red square and in the centre of that square is my flag... breathing distance from a genuine Chihuley - the glass tree  called "Lime Green Icicle Tower" in the Shapiro Family Courtyard.    I can see my flag quivering with excitement! This installation will be up until July 07.