The kit for this quilt was a wedding present from our friends, Paul and Marge. Marge is a quilter and was very excited to provide this great pattern and wonderful hand-dyed cotton for my project. I managed to piece it together through the first half of the first semester of my second year in pharmacy school at Creighton University. Some days I would only spend 15 minutes on piecing, but I did complete it in a reasonable amount of time.
This is the first quilt I've ever hired out for machine quilting. I had quilted Richard's parents' quilt with my machine, and it was a pain. The gal I hired has an enormous free-arm quilting machine in her front room, and was very happy to quilt it for me. I chose the quilting design and thread, and let her do her work. A week later it was done (which is FAR faster than it would have taken me) and all I needed to do was finish with the binding.
It is not a design or colors I would have necessarily chosen for myself, however, I thoroughly enjoyed piecing it together as a brain break from studying.
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