My Quilt #28 ~ Connie’s Quilt 2002

When her youngest daughter was pregnant in 2002, my co-worker and BFF Brenda decided to make a quilt for her newest grandbaby and asked me to help her.  Never having quilted before, Brenda signed up for her first quilting class --the Rail Fence --at the Fabric Patch and asked me to sign up with her.  I had already taken the same class in 1999 so I chose to do something different this time.  Instead of making one large quilt, I made two smaller quilts.

The fabric kit I chose uses fabric with an Asian theme; the backing is a red fabric which represents good luck in the Chinese tradition.  The rail fence setting I used reminds me of Chinese lanterns.  Since my sister is a world traveler, I decided to give her one of the 2 quilts. The quilt measures 56” square and I used the “stitch in the ditch” method to quilt it.

Update:  November 2015 ~ I finally gave my sister her quilt -- thirteen years later!  On the day of my visit, we had a nice traditional Mexican family dinner, complete with pan dulce (sweet bread), menudo, carnitas, lengua, tamales, plus champurrado and hot chocolate.  We had a wonderful time filled with laughter and great memories.