A special friend of mine who is like a mother will be leaving on Wednesday to travel to Oklahoma to be treated for Cancer that is pretty much terminal. After 5 years they give her a 10 to 20 % survival rate. They expect her to only have 18 months at the most. In February we celebrated her 6th year of being breast cancer free, but unfortunately at the very end of the month we found out that she has been afflicted with a very rare form of cancer from the radiation she received to cure her from the breast cancer. She is traveling to Oklahoma to doctors that are familiar with this cancer because so few people have it that no one near us has any experience with it. So - I have been asked to make a signature quilt for her to take with her. My husband bought the material on his way home from work last night. I washed it and cut it and got it ironed to freezer paper by 2 am. Then this am I got it in to town and to the meeting where many people are that are going to sign it and to work where some of the people could sign it. I ran to the other side of town and bought the batting and now I'm starting to applique the squares on. Tomorrow at church the remainder of the squares will be signed and I'll get the final batch of squares back from North Carolina on Monday. The entire quilt has to be finished by Wednesday at noon. Its a daunting task and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. Its only 60" square and its a pretty easy pattern, but I'm nervous because I've never actually finished any of my quilts. I've started about 7, but I've never finished a single one. With God on my side I know I can do this - especially for her.... Everyone is counting on me!! The thing I'm most nervous about is quilting it - I don't have a long arm - I don't have time to hand quilt (which is what I usually do), I don't know how to free motion (I guess I could learn really fast) and I don't have a walking foot... I guess my options are to learn how to free motion or to use my embroidery machine and to embroider on it. It is a tiny gingham print with breast cancer ribbons on the back with solid pink on the front with white pie shaped signature pieces on it....I'll post pictures once its together...
You are very kind to be doing this rush quilt.
My best wishes Bev
My prayers and thoughts are with you. Miracles do happen.
God Bless you all.
Hugs,
Jacqueline
You don't need any prayers Katrina, God is working there with you, beside you and through you, between the two of you and all the love you have for your friend, you will succeed.
Sending an Angle to watch over your friend.
hugs and blessings,
Meganne
BTW...will be praying for your friend.
Hugs, Karen
I, like SHAZELLS, would also do stitch in the ditch, mainly because I think it would be a faster method. It holds the seams down and of course would be quicker than threading your floss thread to tie each square down - unless you are a very fast hand sewer.
Good luck with all of it and I'll keep your friend in my prayers.
Love and blessings Chris
Cancer is such a SAD disease - so silently it creeps up on us. Gods blessings on your friend and on you for wanting to do this quilt for her.
Hugs Elizabeth
