Last week I started cleaning up my the flat surfaces in the Quilt Studio, starting with the cut off backing and batting from the past 6 months of quilts. Among the finds was a length of Teahouse Garden which was long enough and wide enough to make 18 5″ finished 4-patch kaleidoscope blocks.
In addition to the cut off scraps, I dug around for the rest of the fabric and discovered I had just enough fabric to make a total of 48 blocks — half cut as 4-patches and half cut as hour-glass units. I had more more yard left so, it became the backing of this unplanned quilt.
Thursday afternoon I loaded it on the longarm and started quilting. With just 2 half motifs left to quilt, my phone rang and I paused the machine so I could hear.
It was a now retired co-worker with devastating news. She has Stage 4 Lung Cancer and the prognosis is grim.
After getting off the phone I did what quilters do – looked for a quilt to send her. Nothing seemed right in my stack of recently finished quilts, so I went back to finish up Teahouse Gardens and realized I had been working on Anne’s quilt for the past week. Anne loves Bonsai. In my mind I had just found Anne’s quilt.
It’s packed up to ship out in the morning and I totally forgot to get the final measurements. But here are the rest of the stats.
- Started 3/16/2023
- Finished 3/24/2023
- Size before washing: 47 x 59
- Thread: Glide 40wt in Biscotti – 2 bobbins 12 SPI
- Quilting Motif: Flowers Spirals. Lengthened to 18″ with a -3 Row Gap
- Batting: Legacy 80/20
