I usually tart up my house something Martha-Stewart-ish, but this year I didn't get around to it. Instead, I was rushing to finish a hug quilt for a dear friend [wife of our pastor] as she starts chemotherapy for what medical experts are telling us is terminal cancer. [We're all choosing to pray and believe otherwise.] Here's the link to pictures etc.:
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The hardest part for me in this project was NOT doing it myself: I pulled fabric from stash, planned the design and worked out the cutting and sewing directions, then made one block for an example. Then, I stepped back and let the rest of the group do all the sewing: Parts of it certainly look like it was sewn by non-quilters [one good friend had never done ANY patchwork at all before and only used her machine for mending.] It was sooo hard not to "fix" the mismatched corners and little puckers: there can be no doubt that this was a group effort put together by love not expertise, and that's just perfect!