I finished working on this special quilt just before Christmas. The family it's going to lost their 18-year old son in a car accident. It was beautifully put together by a family friend. Let me share this special quilt with you:
As you can see, this young man loved football. The center block you see above, was his football jersey. The woman who put this together did such a great job. She stitched down the jersey onto this center block and I outlined the numbers and stitched it down in white thread here and there. I tried to keep it somewhat three-dimentional.
Below is a darling block which was one of the young man's dress shirts and a favorite tie. I did a medium meander throughout and matched threads to each shirt in the quilt.
Here are some more blocks you can see.
Here are some more blocks you can see.
I felt very honored to be asked to quilt this special quilt. I know it will be a wonderful keepsake for the family.
8 comments:
wonderful memory for them. Happy New Year Vivian!
What a tought quilt to work on. As usual, your quilting has made a real heirloom out of these memories. Happy New Year!
Beautiful job on a very meaningful quilt. The quiltmaker had some very interesting ways to highlight the clothes too.
What a beautiful tribute to the memory of that young man. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Oh Vivian -- you always do such a beautiful job on your quilting. I've finally managed to catch up on your blog -- I missed your giveaway -- gasp! I hope you and the Love family have a VERY Happy New Year!!!
You always do a great job, no matter then quilt. This quilt will be well loved by his family, I'm sure!
I love the 3D effect!
It's wonderful work that you do on so many levels!
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