Shared Footsteps # 1 and # 2

Hello all who open this blog.  I hope you enjoy my next venture.  And thank you in advance for
taking the time to walk through my work. 

Back in March of 2012 Maureen Ginther and her sister Michelle asked me to make them a  T- Shirt quilt.  One for each of them.  The story behind this quilt is their dad Larry Lyon Ginther, use to run
the Bay to Breakers race every year in San Francisco.  Until he passed away in 1999.  So the Larry Ginther's Girls decided that they would run this race every year in honor of their father. 

The color scheme for these quilts came from the colorful t shirts.  I designed the quilts with the
T-shirts that had runners on them, running through the middle of the quilt.   I added a red finish line.
Michelle and Maureen had most of the same t shirts.  But there where a couple differences.

Michelle's quilt named  SHARED FOOTSTEPS #1

This is Maureens quilt.  Named  -  SHARED FOOTSTEPS #2

Maureens quilt has her dad's t-shirt on hers, it is in the second row, the second t-shirt on the left.
Below is the pictue of her dads t-shirt.  It was very well worn.

On one of the t-shirts was a list of all the runners names.  Maureen Ginther and Michelle Ginther's
names appear on this block.

  The following blocks are my favorite.  To me it represents the two sisters following there
dad to the finish line.  Please notice the red finish line followed by the stop of the hand.
Hence the name "SHARED FOOTSTEPS".

Their dad ran with a group of runners.  They called themselves the "Bonita Road Runners"

The black and yellow road was from another t shirt that I added to the Hayes street Blues t shirt.
to represent the steepness of this road.  Hayes Street Hill  is that famous hill you always see in the movies, when filming in San Francisco.  

The following block represents Michelle and Maureen, Maureen is from Maine and Michelle is from North Carolina.  I love the Run, Walk, Stumble or Crawl.  They did it all, they did it all for the love of their dad. 

My color scheme came from the t-shirt on the left.  I so love the Picasso look of this runner.

100 years running another reason for the name SHARED FOOTSTEPS,

This race has a couple major sponsors ING and the EXAMINER

I don't know if you can make it out but on each long border of the quilts are names..  One is

Webster Salute which has a meaning.  Maureen and Michelle have a brother in law who's last name is Webster.  There is a Webster Street on their running route.  Where they both stop and give the Webster Salute.

I apologize for the bad picture but also on the bottom of this quilt is the words Lyon Street.  Because on Hayes Hill there is a Lyon Street.  Which is a wonderful reminder of Michelle and Maureens dad,

whose name is Larry Lyons Ginther.

On each end of the quilt is B 2 B  which stands for Bay to Breakers the race in San Franciso

and on the other end is B 2 B which stands for the Beach to Beacon race in Maine. 

That Michelle and Maureen also have done. 

So that is the history behind these twin quilts.  I hope you enjoyed the journey.  

And I thank you again for viewing my blog. 

Time spent in the past is forever remembered in the future.  Donna Sheerin Gillis