![Stitching the letters on...](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5209/5377142186_df7767aa65.jpg)
During the Christmas holidays I began a quilting project that has been in my head since last October. It's been partly inspired by the popular tram rolls that you can find here and at various other places.
![Old Tram Timetable](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5006/5376542073_79c59d683e.jpg)
For NP's birthday last year I found an old Tramway Time Table that we would have caught if we had lived in our area 50-ish years ago. My grandma tells me that it was the very same tram that she caught when she lived in Sydney as a young woman.
Happily the trams are being restored to the area over the next couple of years, so I thought this project would be a nice connection to our family's past and present.
![Ironing down letters...](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5083/5376542149_ab9b6c5d6d.jpg)
![Letters in the hoop...](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/5376541979_e592a730e0.jpg)
![First piece complete, twelve to go!](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5170/5377142252_368a9c1686.jpg)
I finished my first piece last week, and hope to make a piece each week.
It's a nice feeling to be making something like this...
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