A Friendship in Stitches

      As mentioned in a previous post, I was sent two quilts by Deb Clarke's https://stitchintherapy.blogspot.com/ husband to finish and quilt. It was a real privilege to do this for him. I tried to be quick, but had some delays. I got them quilted, bound, washed and mailed back to him before Thanksgiving, which was a goal of mine. Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture, or lost it, of the batik one completely done. It had a dark blue batik binding.

Detail of Easy Breezy, Mocha Glide

Detail back of Easy Breezy

The smudges on back are batiks that ran.

Correction:  Found the finished Quilt photo!

Special Delivery!

     One quilt blogger I truly miss is Deb Clarke. Her work, her help, her personality were extra special. When she died, her husband contacted me and said he was going through her sewing room with great difficulty. I can't imagine the grief.
    Russ let me know he found a couple of quilts that Deb had asked him to have me quilt. I had offered to quilt Deb's quilts when she had fallen so ill, but the shot hastened her death and I never was to hear from her again.
    This past week, I received a special box with two quilts inside, backing, and some batting. The first quilt I took out was a batik. I looked it up on Deb's blog to tell me some of the story. You can see how it came to be. However, when I pinned it on the wall, it seemed to need some border or ending to the piece, but I did not know if I had the right to change it.

    The next quilt has its first mention as a leader/ender in the link above, but later here. In her photo, there was no blue border around it like the one I pulled out of the box. Well, since Deb added that blue border on the leader/ender quilt, I knew she would be fine adding a similar border to the batik, so I found a perfect fabric and sewed it on.

Side auditions

With borders, I think it extends the quilt and makes the slashed pieces stronger

    Honestly, it is time consuming to put this blog together. Writing is hard work for me- takes a lot of writing/rewriting. But, the payoff in making/keeping the friends I have and being part of their lives is a huge payoff. It moves me from being a consumer of media to a creator/collaborator which is infinitely more rich despite the efforts.
    Thank you to all the bloggers who let me into their lives and enrich mine so fully as Deb Clarke did!