It's Finally Done!!!!

I have done it. Finally. Here is my first quilt. Started a YEAR ago. Now before the snickers start...I would work on it once a week or so...take a few weeks off...sometimes a few months off. You get the general idea. But here it is. I guess it's my second quilt as I stopped working on it completely in October so I could make Ted's mom a quilt for Christmas but it's the first one I started.

Last year in Feb. we were told we were going to have to move back to Texas and I wanted a unique, meaningful memento of Australia so I asked my friend Genevieve to help me make it. Being one of the nicest people on the planet, she had no choice but to accept. This lovely woman welcomed me into her home and taught me quilting techniques, sewing tips, taken me to a quilt show, even lent me her good, spiffy keen machine to finish Mom's quilt. A generous soul. One of several I've met in this wonderful country. I am fortunate to know her.

The quilt is made from a print of Australian and Aboriginal icons. The brown is an antique world map. I really felt a connection between this continent and the rest of the world and wanted to show that. I completely stole the design from a magazine and I am honest about that.

Now I've started a pirate themed quilt for Teddy. He isn't going to care one whit about design or technique or color scheme. All he wants is that the pirates and skulls look angry and fight. I don't care. I'm going to do a cool pattern if it kills me. When I'm done I will hand over his quilt and say as Genevieve has taught me, "Darling here is the quilt I've done. I like it" Hopefully he will be man enough to say, "Yes dear, I like it too"

Thank you Genevieve. It has been a long time since I've felt so proud about something I've done.