Thursday, 17 August 2017

E for Eliza

It was Christmas, and we were wishing we could spend it with our kids who were halfway around the world from us. Our boiler was out (again) and we were feeling a little sorry for ourselves. If life has taught me anything, it’s that the best way to cheer yourself up is to look for someone else who might need cheering. Our neighbors had just brought home a tiny baby girl, and they weren’t able to travel to be with their family. So the six of us had Christmas dinner together. I don’t remember what I cooked, but the pork pie they shared was the best I’ve ever tasted. I made this baby quilt for their little girl out of scraps from Marti Michell’s American Beauty quilt, and also from her Romance Continues line. I didn’t have quite enough of the dark pink sashing, so I used a slightly lighter print for five of them, forming a subtle letter “E” in the center.

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