dwynette

Enthusiastically, as soon as it came out, I began working on the 2009 BOM, Stars for a New Day, but as work and health interfered, I lost interest and set it aside half-done.  Then 3 years ago, when my son announced his engagement to his earliest childhood best friend, I showed it to her, asked if she would like it as a wedding gift, and explained that she would have to patiently wait until it was done.  It needed to be bed-spread sized for a king bed, so I first had to decide how I might make that happen.  She did not want a pillow tuck, either.  Working with the height of their bed, and the sizes of the rows, I began adding to the quilt, first by making a wider spacer that fit perfectly along the 3 edges of the bed, and helps to frame the patchwork and give the eye a place to rest when the quilt is on the bed.  After completing the piecing, I long-arm custom quilted it, adding their names and wedding date in the bottom corners.  The quilt has no less than 5730 pieces of fabric and over 1.14 miles of custom, hand-guided stitching.