Avonlea quilts

A couple weeks ago I finished two quilts, one for each of my midwives. These quilts were the largest I had ever done at about 70″x80″ (don’t laugh at me, quilting goddesses, I’m a total noob still and bow to your greatness). And, um, NEVER AGAIN. At least, not on the machine I have currently. My machine is small, very small, and it made these quilts seem very, very big. A lot of needle re-threading, bobbin winding, teeth gritting and F-bomb dropping went into these babies. But my midwives loved them and the moment I presented their quilts to them (which they’ve dubbed their Avonlea quilts, AWWWW), it was worth it. I’m already itching to get going on another (smaller) quilt.

I only have pictures of one of them, taken by my midwife after she got it home. I was on such a tight deadline to get them finished and delivered before we left for vacation that I didn’t have a chance to take my own pictures. Hoping to get some good ones at the annual homebirth picnic next weekend.

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And that’s about it from me this weekend. My Labor Day weekend was filled with peddling plastic bowls and microwave cake to a bunch of Germans and getting hit on by geriatrics with sauerkraut breath. But it brought in the cash moneyz so I can’t complain.

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