Moving Forward is about all I could do. I had been laid off from my job, my oldest son had just left home for college, and hot flashes and mood changes were becoming daily struggles. I couldn't focus on any one thing, and felt completely paralyzed with not knowing which direction to go or what my priorities were. My sewing machine sat there, waiting, until I finally grew tired of being stuck, decided to stop thinking about all of it, and just started sewing. The quilt is completely improvised, with no plan or inkling of where it would go. The quilting was done in the same manner, by picking a random point in the middle and seeing where I would end up. A metaphor for my life, at that moment and today; this quilt reflects my need to keep going, to keep moving forward.