Belated Christmas Greetings ... hoping the joys and blessings of the Holy Day warm your heart in the coming New Year.
I was in South Carolina last week, for Christmas and family time. First we visited one of my sisters and her DH. I presented her with a quilt to celebrate her recent birthday. She was sooo happy and excited. That just made my day! This was a quilt that I probably mentioned here in RCTQ. It is called "Out of the Blue" and is a traditional quilt made with original blocks. I submitted it last year for a guild challenge involving the color or word blue. Then I stored it away. At that time, there were areas of many blocks that seemed to need more quilting, but I was stymied as to a quilting motif. Not long ago, when I realized this would be a perfect gift for Sis#1, I had a brainstorm for the quilting. I added words in about 10 of the blocks. With free motion MQ, I added her name, birthday and place, names of our parents & all siblings, her kids, GC, & DH, plus some words reflecting good thoughts and things. I was very pleased with the personalization and will do this again in future quilts. I also put a pretty label on the quilt.
Now that I think of it, I think we forgot to take the picture of us together with the quilt. Ack!!
All for now, PAT in VA/USA