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The quilt took me about 2 months as I recall and it’s quilted by hand. I worked every spare time I had. I had friends that hand quilt come over one day to get it started, then hubby and I finished up. I wanted to keep the quilt a surprise to him, but he kept coming in my sewing room while I was embroidering, so I just gave up and put him to work, when it was time to quilt-lol -the embroidery is machine embroidery and that’s what took the most time. Making the designs in my program for each block, with names and dates, then stitching them.
I had never started using it, so now 5 years later I finally have it on my bed. I had a wall hanging that didn’t work with the anniversary quilt, so I decided to add the children born after our 50th, that were not born before 2018, on the quilt and make a wall hanging to match. Our 50th was in 2018. We married in 1968. So we had 3 great grandchildren born and we ‘unofficially’ adopted Eva our granddaughter from Spain. You may remember Eva’s quilt I posted in a thread here when she graduated high school last year. Anyway, she has come back to attend college here. She was a foreign exchange student that my daughter had last year. She fit in well with us and us with her. So now she is family. She flew back to Spain for Christmas break to be with her family so I text her after I finished the wall hanging. She says, “Oh Grammmm!” She was glad to be included bc she loves the quilt.
Oh and the wall hanging took me 2 days. The five years was the length of time it took me to decide to use it.-lol what was I saving it for! We sound like our parents before us when they stored things away. Geez, we sound old!