I had an interesting request from a quilter in that she
wanted to visit her daughter in Mauritius but also take a quilt along. Nothing too special but then she wanted words
quilted all over the quilt as well as flowers.
Now I don’t have a computerised system and everything I do is freehand
with the help of rulers and at first, I said “no”. I, however, had a day or so to think about it
and decided if I never accept challenges, I would never know whether I am
capable of doing it, so I called back and said: “yes I’ll do it.”
She pieced the blocks in less than a day and then brought it
along with 57 words I could choose from to me.
I could neatly space 31 of those. The scary part is that I got the quilt
(75, 5” x 68”) on the evening of the 25th of June and she leaves for
Mauritius on the 4th of July and still needs to bind the quilt. So I had not much time for experimenting or
fooling around. Pedal to the metal as
they say.
I finished the quilting on 27 June (two days, with having to do my day job in between…. Pat on the
back to myself) and I do hope her daughter will enjoy searching for the words.
The quilt top
The back… can you flip the word and read ‘marathon’?
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