In December of 2020, Rachel Hauser, of Stitched in Color" posted on her blog with a challenge to join her in making a quilt to reflect the many emotions of that year and presenting it to someone special. Here is the initial blog post of the sew along she proposed:
https://www.stitchedincolor.com/blog/2020/12/4/-healing-art-for-2020
Since we were in a pandemic and had lots of time on our hands, and I had lots of fabric, I thought I'd try my hands at this and make the quilt for my daughter in law, Becky, who works in a nursing home and has certainly dealt with many challenges! At our ladies Bible study at Church, we were studying Nancy Guthrie's book, "Looking for Something Better" which is a study of the book of Hebrews. The first task was choosing fabrics for the various rows. These were my final colour choices:
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| I didn't have quite enough of a few of the fabrics but a quick online purchase remedied that! |
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The final quilt. It was presented to Becky in the summer of 2021. I had taken pictures and couldn't find them back so finally got a few news ones!
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The backing is a Kaffe Fasset print which I have had in my stash for awhile.
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My friend, Chris Bogart quilted it with an angel wings pantograph which really suited it.
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This photo shows the colours a bit better.
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The label on the back of the quilt.
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It turned out beautifully! The rainbow palette was a fantastic idea. I'm sure your daughter treasures it. Thank you for sharing this with me. It was good to remember the intention behind that sew-along. Perhaps I can develop something similar in the future.
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