My friend, Laura, in the quilt guild, had started the elements of this quilt. She had cut batting and backing for 50 blocks, and had imprinted the pattern for the 50 states on 50 squares. She had started to embroider the blocks and done about 10 of them, and had also started to hand quilt some, to show her intent on finishing each block. Then she gave the huge container to me, filled with all this, plus lots of embroidery thread, some needles, the patterns and instructions. I've been working on this project for a little more than 2 years and just finished the embroidery and quilting on the 50th block. There is still so much to do, to join the blocks with the sashing. There are also some dark turquoise blocks to go in between there somehow. (My daughter, Val, did some quilting on these blue squares) It will be a huge quilt and I do wonder what will become of it. I could give it back to Laura's family, auction it for charity, give it to one of my kids. For now it will stay with me.
2 comments:
50th! Wahoo!
Where’s the picture of New Jersey’s flower?
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