My hiking partner has been telling me about a quilt she was making for her niece as a wedding present.  I have never been the type of person who can picture something accurately when it is described to me.  Not to mention, she would describe it while we were hiking.  That’s not my most attentive time. Especially if it’s hot or a tough steep trail, which most in the White Mountain region of NH are.  But I digress.

Carol, my hiking partner, was trying to capture the look of the woods with the moonlight shining through the trees.  But it was a pieced pattern, on the bias no less.  She sent me a picture of the quilt top laying across a bed all bumpy and wrinkled.  I could see where she was going with the quilt.  When she brought the quilt to me, it thought it was stunning.

This is another instance where my customer knew exactly what she wanted.  Which in this case, was an all over leave pattern with rays of moonlight interspersed randomly throughout the quilt.  We spent some time going through leaf edge to edge patterns until we settled upon one.  Once I finished the edge to edge, she came over and pointed out exactly where she wanted the moonlight.  With the use of a straight edge ruler, I quilted the diagonal lines in and around the leaves.

Now if you think you can come and sit over my shoulder while I quilt your quilt you are sorely mistaken.  This was a special circumstance.  Carol thought I would be able to put the lines in without her.  But I think I would have been heavier handed than she was.  We make a great team.

Here is the final quilt.  It’s stunning!