Mid 2024 my SIL's house burned to the ground. The house went up quickly because the fire was being fed by a gas line. They thought their dogs got out of the house, but they hadn't. They did get all the people out, but they lost everything. I had already started quilts for a couple of them, and I decided after this trauma, I wanted to make sure all of them had a quilt for the new house.
I needed to make five queen/king quilts, a toddler quilt and a baby quilt to make sure all of them had a quilt. I just finished the last quilt. I have showed the other quilts as I finished them, I just didn't mention who they were for.
This quilt is 102" square.
I think they will be moving into the new house in the next week or so, so I finished just in time!
Some of these quilts are replacements for ones that burned, not the same fabrics or patterns, but for people who already had a quilt from me. The others are quilts for the members of the family I hadn't gotten around to making a quilt for yet. Up until now I had been making my nieces and nephews quilts when they got married, but I decided this was a good time to just give them all a quilt. My only never been married nieces and nephews are in that family.
I hope they like them, and really hope they understand that wrapping them in quilts is my way of showing them I love them.
It feels really great to get such a huge project done.
On the Christmas front, I'm down to the last two projects, so I think I'm good to go! We aren't doing family Christmas until January 3rd, so I have a few extra days anyway, but I think I can get everything done by Christmas Day. If I do, I can spend the last week of 2025 working on whatever I want!!!
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