For the Love of Family

She's done it before: "Debby. Will you make this for me?" Big sigh (because of big love!) First, it was a quilt from a kit she bought. I made it. Then a second quilt. I made that one, too. By the 3rd ask, I put my foot down and said a big NO. She learned to quilt herself!

Here are a few small samples I made just to test drive a pattern idea she had. This blue and white star is something she saw online and asked me to pattern it. I did, made it and then quilted it.

Blue and White Star

Here's the quilting as seen from the back. Just some straight lines.

She wanted another block to be patterned. She thinks I can do anything quilt related (ha ha). She told me the size, sent some Moda fabrics and away I went.

Now she looks in my Etsy store. She sees a pattern and then asks if I can resize it (no kidding!) Only for her - I resize nothing for no one (unless they want to pay me $50 an hour - that usually silences the request. And yes, I do get these requests!) Then she bought a new machine and is off and running!

She decides to get rid of some fabric and quilt tops. Sends them to me and I get one of them quilted for our local charity endeavors. This pink quilt is a large lap size.

Another top of 6 blocks that I quilted and and then donated for charity. What a fun group of blocks, huh?

Along the way, she bought a kit that needed some appliqué blocks stitched. 24 of them!! Guess who did that?! She sewed them together with some squares and kept it as her own Christmas quilt. She bought the kit AGAIN and wanted to make it for our other sister. Guess who she asked to make those 20 appliqué blocks again?!!? Here are 8 of the blocks, most of which I had to improvise on because the author/designer didn't have a workable alphabet or little parts.

8 of the 20 blocks from the Hometown Christmas pattern by Sweetwater

A few more blocks, several of which she didn't want (like those little chickadees at the bottom!)

Nine more, some already shown in top photo:

A few I invented or altered severely. I cut out the trees from some Christmas fabric she had also sent. Why not put those in the photo, right?

This was my own Adobe Illustrator generated alphabet. Got my other sister's name and BIL name in there along with some other words:

Lots of letters make lots of words

And here's the quilt with the 24 appliquéd blocks I made. Janet cut out the squares and put it all together. Professionally longarmed.

BIG Whew!! I'm done. Really done. But my sisters are thrilled with the result and if they're happy, I'm happy.