what a nice response!

It does look good with her couch...

It is always so nice when the recipient is over the moon about a gifted quilt. 

I made more progress on the binding of my last quilt. One an  half sides left to go.

Today I decided I just needed to baste the quilt on the longarm so I could start in the center. I got that done and quilted the 2nd border at the bottom and did a little design in the center. Tomorrow I hope to make good progress on the middle. Now that it is basted I can roll it back and forth as needed to execute my design.

How utterly satisfying!  

Her enthusiastic response completely justifies the time and effort you put into making it.  It is *always* so wonderful when the recipient values the quilt.  :-)

So glad that your friend is so excited about the quilt gift.

Jo

The current progress on my "Forget Me Not"  EPP project.  I'm at the point where I am adding the scrappy hexie border around the circumference.  There are 66 hexies needed.  This can be broken down into 6 "scallops" of 11 fabrics each. 

I am just rubbish at choosing pure random fabrics/colors.  I do much better if I have a limited palette.  I noticed that there were 12 "bumps" on the circumference: 6 dark partial flower units and 6 full flower units.  Furthermore, if I combined 1 partial plus 1 full flower unit, I'd have 6 "scallops" to work with.   11 hexies are needed to go around each scallop.  Well, I can deal with picking out 11 fabrics in turquoises and tans.  I made sure that I got 6 hexies of each of the 11 fabrics ... i.e. 66 hexies in all. 

Furthermore, in keeping with "rubbish at random" theme, I knew that it would be much easier for me if I found ONE pleasing arrangement of the 11 fabrics and simply repeat the pattern, thereby eliminating the stress for me and creating a symmetry and repetition of pattern.

The first picture is of the arcs of 11 fabrics that will go around each of the scallops. 

The second picture is of the medallion.  The red line shows where I have already sewn an arc in place around a scallop.  The blue lines show the other scallops.

Sure glad she enjoy it. What a nice note she wrote.

Wanda has been a good friend for decades even though we have not seen each other since college graduation day in 1963. 

Amazing how some friendships can last even through time and distance isn't it?

So glad she loved it.  It's nice that she appreciates it so much.  Happy to see a picture of the creator of the OX.  Still hanging in my sewing room.

Can't figure out why she looks so much younger than I do.  LOL  We are both 80 so it's just not fair!

She's annoyed with me because she cannot find where I wrote the "label" in neutral thread across the neutral fabric in the bottom border. (Perhaps she is developing cataracts.)