What happens when you bring together a group of creative, focused and generous quilters, and give them a Mission Impossible?
Miracles, that’s what. On 12th January, we agreed as a group that we’d create together the quilt that was the goal of Miss May, since she would no longer be among us to finish it herself. Just 5 days later, the blocks are all made, and the ‘Virtual Quilt’ is assembled.
Our friend can see how her quilt will look, and the postal services of the US, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France and Australia permitting, we hope to have the real thing completed within a few more weeks.
Stay with us for the rest of the journey. I’ll keep you posted.
talltalesfromchiconia 
Add to that the miracle that all of these creative, focused and generous quilters found each other in the first place —- now affecting each other’s lives in ways you might not have imagined before. Pretty amazing.
It’s had one overpowering benefit for all of us, which is to make us much more aware of ovarian cancer and its symptoms… So hard to diagnose, and so deadly.
girl power……in sistership…love love it !!!!
Purposeful creativity and the generosity of the human spirit. I love it too!
Oh My – that is a gorgeous quilt – well done you – c
I agree, I think all the F2F ladies should step up and take a bow. And it has been such a great pleasure and privilege to do something meaningful for our friend…
[…] to January and got her blocks made post haste. In addition, Kate, one of the co-leaders assembled a virtual quilt and Sue, the other, will assemble the tangible quilt and bind it after her son has quilted […]
It will be a beautiful quilt it’s wonderful to have friends.😌
And especially important at times like these… I’m very happy with how everything looks, and the finished thing will be splendid.
Quilt love ❤
🙂
I am so impressed by this virtual quilt!!!
It is just perfect!
Hugs x10
Esther
One of these days I’m going to have to investigate EQ… I made a collage in PicMonkey of the arrangement I wanted, and then Avis made it beautiful and added the binding! I don’t know if anyone noticed, but there are three hearts and a ribbon in the middle, to symbolise lots of love, and hope…
I have the EQ7 software, I need to play with it more. There is much to learn!
The hearts and ribbon details is awesome! Thank you for pointing it out.
Hugs
Esther
Beautiful in every way 🙂
I think so too. I feel privileged to have had the chance to work on it. And it’s made me rethink my attitude towards sampler quilts…
well done to all of you for such great team work & spirit
I’ve been so impressed at how everyone immediately dropped everything and got to work.
I saw the ribbon and hearts. I agree Kate, we do need to be much more aware of ovarian cancer and its symptoms, so often it is misdiagnosed. I am half way through a ten year research project… How could I say no? I had just lost a friend who had been mistreated for gallbladder problems when ovarian cancer was the cause all along. The quilt is wonderful.
I’m so glad you like it, and I thank you for being willing to participate in the research project over such a long period.
Five days? Five DAYS!
What a brilliant team you all are.
I’m still slightly staggered, but what a great bunch of women I’ve had the privilege to work with! Not a one of them hesitated for a moment to drop everything and get it done. The real quilt will take a good bit longer, but at least Pat has had a chance to see how it will look. I’ll be posting about progress as and when it happens.
I’ve got everything crossed that it all comes together in time and works out for you all.
I’m praying she will get to see it, but it’s in the hands of the Post Offices of all nations…
[…] forward a month. If you want to know the background, please visit first this post, followed by this post, which will explain everything. All the blocks have either arrived in the US, or are en route, to […]