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My True Love Gave to Me…Coincidentally, Mercury retrograde ended and my 12 Days of Christmas Quilt came back from the quilter, ready for buttons and final flourishes!    I am so happy!  It is a project I undertook with my friend and colleague Kathie Joblin.  We both made a quilt and I totally benefited from her excellent sewing expertise and enthusiastic encouragement. How long did it take? In total, a 5 day retreat at a cottage for 2 consecutive summers, plus 2 or 3 full weekends and probably a few more days here and there but who is counting?

The pattern and fabric was designed by an amazing quilt person from Colorado – Nancy Havlerson.  The way she put the fabric design together with each piece in the quilt is inspired and you could feel that with each piece as it was added to make the whole picture. I am sharing this here for all of you who endured my bragging and droning on about this project for the last 2 years!   These are the pictures of the finished quilt before the binding and buttons arrived.  More pictures when I enroll my friend Jane of Jane Walkers Cards  in taking a good picture or two in a bigger space. Thanks for your encouragement and warm words!

Carolyn