Waaaaaaaay back, in February, I facilitated a very good friend's special birthday request!
16 friends squished into my classroom, each of them charged with making a patchwork block about their dear friend.
Shirley has been a nurse, midwife, missionary and lecturer. She is one of the most generous, caring and just people I know and I feel truly privileged and blessed to call her 'friend' these past 21 years.
It took a wee while for a few postal blocks to come in, and then I set to work, finishing up the sketching details and chosen texts, as well as assembling and quilting the quilt.
And then the final handover happened last week (took a while to get us both in the same country at the same time!).
I've made a little mosaic of the individual blocks so you can see more of the details (I promise they aren't as curvy as they seem here - I took pictures of them while the quilt was on the line! It was windy!)
There is so much thought, love and creativity in all of these blocks, a moving tribute to our funny, coffee loving, brilliant friend!
Even though I had already gifted Shirley a quilt for her birthday back in February (read more about this quilt and the sew-in here), I wanted to contribute a block to her Friendship Quilt.
And here it is....
That's Shirley in the middle (portraits were never my strong suit!) between me on the left (I told you portraits weren't my strong suit!) and Rosie (amazingly this actually looks like Rosie!). We first met 21 years ago at Bible College, and are the self named 'Breakfast Club' (we still meet once a month for breakfast, coffee and catch-up!).
I hope you've enjoyed reading about this very special quilt and its very special recipient!
Happy sewing!
