My neighbor Rebekah moved this past weekend back to the mainland. In addition to being an awesome neighbor and friend, we were blessed with some of the things they didn’t want to move with them; their grill among many other things. It is timely because we were debating buying a new grill because ours was starting to rust really bad (the salty air is not good for grills here!) but didn’t want to spend a lot of money for just under two years. While the movers will move them, the cleaning requirements is just unreal for them.
Rebekah LOVES purple. She constantly joked with me that she wanted me to make her a quilt. She never really expected it (especially when her move came very suddenly). It was always my intention to teach her to quilt. She showed interest, but with a younger daughter and then last year home-schooling her children, it wasn’t a possibility.
When I found out she was moving a few weeks ago, I really wanted to make her a quilt. I looked in my stash, naturally, for something purple. I really didn’t have anything. Then I was organizing some older projects and came across the blocks for this. They have been finished for a few years (like four) just awaiting the perfect setting for the quilt.
I never bought the finishing kit for this BOM quilt. I had bought several yards of the white fabric that is in it because I lucked upon it when I was out shopping one time when we lived in Washington. I decided it was time to finish it and give it to her. I even had the perfect backing and binding fabric that was accidentally bought a few months ago . I thought it was a different color online and bought enough for another project. It was meant to be!
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After I showed it at guild this past Monday night, I was coming home and she and her husband was in their garage finishing up last minute things before the packers came the next day. Though I had planned on giving it to her in a gift bag, the opportunity was perfect. That way if she wanted to pack it with her household goods she could.
We will miss having you as a neighbor, Rebekah!
