nursie76

My BIL is celebrating his 70th birthday, and on the spur of the moment decided to create a quilt on my EQ6 (now 7) for him using his favorite subject, trains. So, this is what I came up with...some fussy cuts, some photos on fabric and some embroidery. I pieced the bulk of it last weekend and quilted it after work this week, most nights (mornings?) until 1 or 2 am. It isn't perfect, and there was more I would have like to do, but I finished it Friday morning at 2 AM and gave it to him at the family dinner Friday night at 6PM. His dinner was at the restaurant in an old railroad station converted to a Radisson hotel in Scranton, PA.

My DH and BIL aren't ones to show a lot of excitement when receiving gifts - I think partially because they feel embarrassed to be the center of attention and not knowing how to accept a gift gracefully. So, I expected a polite thanks...he got up, hugged the dickens out of me and said in my ear, This is wonderful, thanks for doing it for me..." AND he got all choked up!

He loved the pics of Pennsylvania Railroad cars the most. His wife said she was going to hang it in his den...I said "Nope! This is to be used and abused!" She said "Really, are you sure, it is so pretty?" And i told her absolutely. I told my BIL the same thing, and he said, "wellll....I don't want to ruin it!" I told him to use it, abuse it and when it was worn out I would make him another one....probably for his 80th birthday! His smile spread all over his face, and he said, "OKAY!"

This isn't perfect, the binding which to save time I put on machine, has a few little lips on the back, and I would have like to do more FMQ....but he likes it, and that's all that matters!

Thanks for looking.