My friend, Dotty, came to visit me for several days after Christmas. We had a great time--went to the movies, out to eat (had a HUMONGEOUS helping of tiramisu on NewYears Eve), went to the yarn store, played cards and just generally had a great time. But, most importantly, we had a MISSION. We had decided to make a quilt for a mutual friend. And this is what we made--Prince's Feather from the October 2008 issue of McCall's Quilting Magazine. It was amazing. We agreed on all the fabric choices--keeping in mind that we needed to include blue. And Dotty had brought the perfect blue for the ferns. We fused, positioned and blanket-stitched all the ferns, pieced the entire quilt and pin basted it in 3 days--in addition to all the other things we did.. Then I quilted it and sent it to Dotty where she put on the binding and label and shipped it to our friend. And our friend LOVED it.
What a way to spend the holiday. We received so very much joy from the creating of the quilt and the laughs we had while we were doing it. And I really like the finished product. What more could one want for a Christmas gift than to spend time with a good friend and having a great time?
4 comments:
What a wonderful quilt you two made for your friend. She is so lucky. I have gone through a binge period where most of my quilt magazines and books were disposed to various groups. There is much to be said to cleaning out but also much misery when I see such a lovely pattern that I know I no longer have. I will plan to be more generous to myself on the next round of binging. =!=
Thanks Barb. I'll have to admit that I went through my magazines and took out patterns I liked and put them in notebooks for later use. Maybe next time I should share the magazines instead of just keeping parts of them!
It's beautiful! I know she must have loved it.
Thanks Corky.
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