Our stake started a quilt raffle at Girls Camp last year that was apparently very popular, so they're doing it again this year and I was tricked (by my good friend the assistant camp director) into volunteering to make the quilt. And here it is! The theme for camp is Camp CSI (Courage, Strength, INTEGRITY). (My understanding, if you're interested, is that every girl gets one raffle ticket upon arrival and can be awarded additional tickets for showing integrity throughout the week.)
Here it is modeled by Stuart's bed.
I embroidered the word Integrity in the lower right corner and a quote from Joshua 1:9 across the top: "be strong and of good courage," which I managed to misquote even after looking it up to double check the punctuation and reference. (It should say "be strong and of a good courage.") How embarrassing. Oh well. I'm guessing it'll be years before the recipient is well enough versed in the scriptures to even catch it.
Here's my happy accident. I was immediately displeased with the look of the quilt binding once I had it attached to the front of the quilt. So rather than blind-stitching it down in the back I top stitched it down with this super cutie leafy-vine decorative stitch that matches the quilt perfectly. Its my favorite detail.
And, foolishly, I opted to hand quilt the thing. In retrospect, I should have just used the machine and stipple stitched, but I love the look and process of hand quilting. I've just never done it on this scale before. But it also turned out to be a happy mistake because it forced me to accept help from two fantastic friends when crunch time rolled around. And now I have hours of happy memories logged away of sitting on the floor quilting and chatting and laughing with Lindsey and Tara while the kids played happily in the backyard. I love you guys!
4 comments:
I go out of town for a few days and you blog like crazy!! I love the quilt stitching. Cute pictures of the kids too. I'm bummed we missed stuart's birthday. Looks like it was a lot of fun. As for the videos I always save mine in a smaller format before uploading. I also tried youtube the last time but it put the dimensions a little bigger than I anticipated. Just a thought.
i thought i left you a comment already... maybe i just thought it lol. i can't believe you put all that effort into that quilt it is out of control. your way more ambitious than i am. oh yeah now i remember what i was going to say or rather what i thought i already said... did i give you permission to blog about things other than my babies??? i didn't think so :P
Totally amazing! Wish I had something like that in me! It is beautiful and I wish I was one of your young women with lots of raffel tickets!
I'm throwing my name in the raffle. Super super cute and I can hardly believe you hand stitched all of that. Do you have an embroidery machine? I'm a little jealous if you do.
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