This quilt has had many hands on it. It started with a gorgeous 4 yard piece of the Aqua batik with yellow and green palms that I never intended to cut up. My daughter was in my stash, a dangerous situation, and decided that she wanted to make me a quilt using it. At first, I was adamant about saying no but she persevered and I relented. Then she grabbed the purple batik wth the flower in the middle which was another fabric I bought just because. She made it in early spring of 2006.
Well, she made this beautiful top.
It was then quilted by my friend Sheila Crum who made a beautiful palm motif from one of my Hawaii pitures. She finished it in April 2006.
Well, my daughter sewed the binding on it and then it sat on my chair for 2 years awaiting the handsewing to finish it. Well, senior year of high school, pregnancy and now baby kept her from finishing it.
I, on the other hand was scared to do it because my hand sewing skills are crappy at best. Ahhh...enter my wonderful friend and quilting guru Sarah to the rescue. She came over this past Monday to help me with June's quilt but with all the babysitting and packing, I did not get the blocks ready - so she sat down, asked for a sewing needle and the thread for the quilt and began the binding. I felt so bad yet very grateful. I worked on June's blocks while she sat on my sofa and worked on the binding. Brad made us a lunch and we put on Juno (my favorite movie) and she sewed until she had to go to teach her class. She finished 2 sides and 3 mitered corners.
Well I couldn't let it sit there - I looked at how she did it and she graciously pinned the last corner for me and I finished it today.
This quilt is such a special gift to me and I feel so blessed to have three very talented women work on it for me.
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