A Special Quilt

On the Friday before Christmas a friend of mine was traveling with her 4 youngest boys on the highway when a car headed in the opposite direction turned into her lane and hit their van head on. The boys had bumps and bruises and amazingly were ok, but she sustained the majority of the injuries. She has two fractured feet, a fractured shin, a broken femur, and her lower back was crushed (her doctor said it looked like it was a crushed soda can). She was in the hospital for 3 weeks, and now has begun physical therapy from home.  It will be a while before she is able to walk again.   She has been nothing but positive and showing gratitude through the whole process, but she has a hard road in front of her.

As I started working on this Rising Star Quilt from do.Good Stitches, my friend kept running through my mind.  I felt instinctively that this quilt belonged to her.  I talked to my Peace Circle ladies and we all agreed this quilt was meant for her.  She loved it and I hope it's a comfort to her on her long road to recovery.

This was the first time I've done a large scale quilting pattern on such a huge quilt, so it was a bit rocky, but in the end, I liked the loose basket weave look.

I love these pictures because the clouds are so puffy they look like they're falling straight out of the sky onto the quilt.

 The contrast of the extremely dead grass is also quite striking.  😉