Memories

I had decided to not enter a quilt for the festival this time round because of the whole being in newborn phase around here with my baby girl, but I started looking at all of the beautiful quilts at The Blogger's Quilt Festival and just had to participate.  I thought I would show you all one of the quilts I made from the fabric I won from the last quilt festival thanks to one of the sponsors Above all Fabric.

 The story behind the quilt:
A cold night in February five years ago I went out to dinner with my friends Christie and Dan.  Earlier that day Joel (my now husband) had left a message on my phone.  For some reason I was really nervous about calling him back and wanted to put it off.  Christie and Dan were very excited that he had called me and they refused to go into the restaurant until I called him back.  Luckily, Joel was working so I just left a message on his phone and we went in to eat.  Later that night Joel called me back- Christie and Dan got out of the car and stood out in the cold, so that I could talk to him.  Joel asked me out on our first date and the rest is history.

I made this quilt for Christie.  We were also roommates when I was in grad school and are still good friends.  This fabric reminds me a lot of her and so this was my belated "thank you" gift to her.