Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Jo's quilt

After much hard work by many people, I finally finished Jo's quilt! I delivered it to her today and saw gorgeous little Otto.

It seems like a long time ago that I was collecting some of the finished blocks at the Maternity Coalition Xmas pizza party at Bruce & Erika's:


These were the washed fabrics for the sashing and binding, which Jo picked out:



Thanks to everyone who gifted some lovely scraps for the posts:



Drum roll please....the front of the finished quilt!:



The back, with all your messages on printable fabric:



I won't upload pics of them all, but these are some of the blocks set in the quilt. Jo's square:



The square Jo made for Hugo:



The square Jo made for Isobel:



Anna's square:



Heather's square:



Alex's square:



Megan's square:



Julie's square:



Corinne's square:



Suz's square:



The quilt label:



Little Otto was asleep when we arrived today. However I got these lovely photos of Jo and Simon with the quilt:





It was an absolute pleasure to coordinate this quilt for Jo, to honour her as a dear friend and fellow activist. I also loved sharing my newfound love of quilting with you all!

3 comments:

  1. It looks so beautiful, Melissa. You did a wonderful job coordinating it and stitching it all together. Well done. Thanks for putting all the lovely photos in your post.

    See you soon
    Heather

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  2. Wow! It loooks great Melissa, thanks so much for organising this for Jo and her fam, you are an angel xxx Meganx

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  3. this is INCREDIBLE - mindblowing amount of work in there and such a gorgeous gorgeous idea and present.

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