Here's the story: Katy Doke was selected Yuma County Fair Queen for 2009/2010. She chose as her theme Breast Cancer Awareness because she had a Grandmother with breast cancer. When the Queen's Luncheon came up in 2010, she asked me for ideas for table decorations, etc. using her theme.
You all know I'm a quilter, so quilt is always the first thought in my head. Well, I also own a gift shop, so how to combine the two? We ended up with little 'gift baskets', pink polka dot containers, strawberry cheesecake Jelly Belly beans, pink ribbon pins, and a pink ink pen. Ooh, and a pink square of fabric, from Close To My Heart fabric by Fig Tree Quilts out of Moda.
The deal: Each guest to sign their name, their title (these are queens, princess, and the like) and the blocks come back to me for finishing.
Thirty blocks, which went together nicely with Martinique by Three Sisters, another Moda. Now this quilt normally wouldn't take me a month to pull together, but life intervenes. Like Mom's Alzheimer's, a leaky roof, a (very) uncooperative quilting machine. Lots of little stuff, some big stuff, a little laziness on my part.
So it's taken me a year, a whole one but it's finally DONE!
And today Katy was home from college, so she and her mother posed with the quilt for a picture. And drew the name of the winner of the quilt, Emily Hartman, who was Sedgwick County's Lady-in-Waiting then, and was 2011 Fair Queen. I hope Emily enjoys owning this Memory Quilt as much as I enjoyed making it!
It is a wonderful quilt; I am sure Emily will love it!
ReplyDeleteMy son loved a certain package he got. He is working on a blog post. He told me that these things take time. It is amazing to see him eating peas and carrots by the way. *grin*