A tent had been set up outside of the entrance of the RhyDin Welcome Center to protect the volunteers and crafty visitors from both sun and rain showers. Various swaths of fabric, containers filled with glitter, buttons, appliques, googly eyes, boxes holding colorful balls of yarn, scissors, sewing needles, thread, glue and other mysterious odds and ends covered two long tables underneath the tent. These tables were mirrored by two more with benches set out for those who wanted to sit while they created their masterpieces.

Welcome Center volunteers kept the area under the tent from becoming too unruly of a mess and helped visitors who wanted assistance or lighthearted conversation as they worked on their own square. They also kept an eye out to discourage anyone who intended to turn what was meant as a celebratory project into one displaying an uglier hatred going beyond harmless joking. When finished, each quilt square was placed in a pile where Koyliak VanDuran-Simon would carefully sew the patches together with the same refined stitchwork.

The tables would be available and manned during several listed scheduled sessions from Wednesday, June 19th through Wednesday, July 10th. The Great RhyDin Quilt, in this installation at least as the city?s population would always be growing, weaving new rich stories into the shared history, would be hung on display inside the Welcome Center?s main hall once completed.



((This thread is open to all - feel free to post descriptions and/or pictures of anything your character would add to depict any facet of his/her life in RhyDin, your characters visiting the tent to view the work or anything else your wonderful imaginations can come up with. The only request is to please keep it respectful - this is meant for some simple, random fun. Please feel free to PM me with any questions!))

Mataya and the Shanachie are quick to get involved.

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The Scathachian Priestesses offered this for The Great Rhydin Quilt:


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As it turns out, tiny t-shirts leftover from Dragonpalooza make pretty good quilt squares.

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Rhiannon Harker had encouraged her students to take part as individuals. Using the mascot of the hawk, this was the group square.

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Encouraged by her school - and frankly, far too excited about making a big quilt "for the giant invisible fairies who live in the Wulcomme Sentar" - Lyneth managed, somehow, to plead, cajole, and bully Mummy into helping her make this.

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Joining her family and classmates, Maggie was aided by her grandmother to create a square to add to the quilt.

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DoD quilt addition.

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Kasimira hummed as she worked. Like all properly brought up ladies, she had some artistic abilities polished by instructors throughout her younger years. And like most women who have children, she had done "arts and crafts" type projects before.

Today she used a touch of glamour to give her finished piece a bit of faerie dust sparkle before adding it to the pile.

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The sweet older woman places her completed square on the growing stack.

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And one for the popular Scandinavian Crystal Company:

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Amthy arrived to add the two squares she made. She looked right and left and right again to make sure Cayt hadn't followed her. The nymph knew her sister was suspicious, just not how suspicious. It wouldn't do to have her disrupt Amthy's plans before they even started.

Humming happily when she did not see any silvery-blonde hair, Amthy added her square to the pile.

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Adoringly, she smoothed the edges before adding another just on top of it.

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"La!" She sang as she turned away and scampered back off the way she came.

((relates to this thread))

Ebon dropped off a square for the quilt, bearing the emblem of his family and the motto of the Stardreamer Fosterage that he and Phen still ran after so many years together.

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