A Wedding Quilt

My Other Girl is getting married!  This is the second member of Team Offspring to get married, but the first since I began quilting.  A wedding quilt is a big deal and a labor of love.  5 months ago, I asked the kids if anyone was making them one and if not, that I would be honored to do so and so it began… with a lot of help from my friends… friends don’t let friends sew alone, luckily for me.

Step one of course was the fabric, the colors…she loves sunflowers, they wanted browns, yellow and tan….  My Loving Spouse was drug off to the fabric store to help in the first selection, but it seems I picked up more fabric and colors for this quilt every time I entered a fabric store…it was a Wedding Quilt after all!  I literally spent days and nights on Pinterest scouring the site for a pattern and kept coming back to the one that just seemed right for this quilt, except all I had was a picture…no pattern or instructions and it was a bit complicated, so I needed help, lots of it.  Luckily for me, the first of the quilting friends steps in to make sure I get it right…and I was off.

Sewing 32 squares and then…cutting them up and sewing them some more…Laying them out for on ‘point’……not liking this final effect…laying them out again…and again…  My plan for adding the triangle pieces would have cut off the corners of each bordering square (Bad British Word) and little did I know, that when you quilt ‘on point’ the triangle pieces can stretch which will distort the entire quilt (Double Bad British Word).  I am grateful for Quilting Friend 2 who gave me a complicated mathematical formula for cutting the triangle pieces to keep them from stretching…and I finally have the quilt top completed.Fabric for the backing was bought in brown, as I drug My Loving Spouse back to the fabric store (the nearest one is 23 miles away).  Except we didn’t buy enough…so we did it again…and the second brown (on a second trip)…was not enough as well…  Thankfully, so entered Quilting Friend 2 (again) with a suitable and warm fabric for the backing…it was time to quilt it.  Onto the long arm quilter and I was working away.Quilting in circles, which I am still learning to do…Using one of the extra brown fabrics for the binding and I was done.  It took me 5 months, but I wanted to make sure it was done right.  I got it in the mail and off to ‘his’ mother all in time for a shower, that I didn’t even know they were having!Packed and sewn with love and prayers for a life time of blessings for them both…