When we were going to have a new master bedroom added on 2 1/2 years ago we decided to get a king sized bed. This meant we would need new bedding. I love burgundy, so I looked at some various comforters in catalogs and online to find something. I was talking to my husband’s aunt about it and she said that I needed to make a quilt. I didn’t know if I was up to the task with kids who were 6, 3, and 1 at the time. Yet, I liked the idea, especially when she said I could use fabrics she had in her stash. So, I picked out some fabrics and some machine embroidery designs and set to work. I chose toile designs because they were classic and didn’t require the time and thread other designs would have. I don’t remember sizes of everything even though I could measure the finished quilt and probably figure it out. I do know that there are 90 blocks and that the quilt fits our king sized bed. It was a lot of work, but I am happy with it. A hired a local woman to machine quilt it, and then I stitched the binding on.
I also thought I would share a picture of the quilt that was on our bed prior to the one I mad. My mom made the quilt in the picture below using our wedding colors for a wedding present. The quilt has pictures of my husband and I as babies and seniors with our engagement picture in the center. She asked people who were part of our lives to sign the cream colored blocks. It was very special to me, so I decided to hang it on our new bedroom wall instead of put it away somewhere.
