a star for a star.
Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 8:10PM Here for the Marcelle Medallion Quilt-Along? Awesome! The master page is here! I'll be back tomorrow with a few fun MMQAL things but tonight I am finally revealing a quilt I made!!
Ten years ago, I worked at a well-known coffee chain in the Pacific Northwest. I was fortunate to work at a location that had a really great, established group of regulars, and one of those regulars was this totally sweet gal who came in all the time. We became friends. When the time came to decide if I was going to make the big leap (Australia, or not Australia) she was a significant factor in nudging me into it.
I think it's appropriate that while so many of my friends from that time have become strangers, she has endured and become an even better friend. One whose life always seems to touch mine again at exactly the right moments. We keep our eye on each other. Cheer one another on. Share the joy, divide the sorrow, contemplate the unknown and try to make sense of it all. It has been a really special friendship.
This past summer, she got married. What with one thing (Owen) and another (living on aforementioned southern continent) I couldn't be there. And I so wanted to be there, so the only thing I could do was...sew. I began piecing through my stash, trying to find a song in my fabric that would quell my moping urges. I settled on a pattern, and a palette, and thought about her. She really is a top-notch gal. And sewing made the distance seem a lot easier to bear.
So here it is. A quilt for K.
Quilt Stats:
"Shattered Star"
90" Square
Made with Kona Snow and a variety of Kona, Michael Miller Cotton Couture and Art Gallery Element solids
Backed & bound with DS Quilts
Batted with 100% cotton batting
Longarm quilted by Jeannette Bruce of The Quilting Platypus with "Oodles of Doodles"
I'm hoping to release this as a pattern in two sizes, probably closer to the end of November. I will keep you all posted and I'd love it if anyone wanted to be a tester (please email me for details).
Reader Comments (4)
Very nice! I'm so glad to be able to see a picture of it completed and what a beautiful story! The decision to leap or not to leap was a huge one! Glad you decided to move here:)
it really is a beautiful quilt Jen. i am positive your friend completely adores it.
What a fabulous quilt! Love, love, love it!
oh this is gorgeous!