Stay at Home Quilt

I started this quilt in my head when Field Study Voile first starting showing up in blogs and shops. I cut into the fabric almost as soon as it arrived. I had it laid out carefully in the old shop, keeping note of time so I could work out a reasonable price to charge when it came to selling it.




I turned out to be the only thing I had brought home that Saturday afternoon, the last day of my 3 day working week, a few days before we had the scan that told us we had lost our baby.
I had a funny kind of feeling towards this quilt after that. I felt like stitching. Sitting, processing, feeling, stitching. But I didn't feel like working. I couldn't just keep manufacturing. But if I decided to keep it for myself, I knew I was making just because. Because it helped, because it was beautiful, or fun, or quiet, or passed the time.

So I decided to keep it. I worked on the binding before I finished the quilting, and have spent the last 2 months, without pressure, just quilting it as I feel like it, and not counting the hours. And all the while in between, I've been taking it outside to read while the kids play, or folding it over the couch to display my favourite parts, letting the kids use it as a cubby house or cape, noticing new things as I quilt or sit in changing light. Enjoying it.
Keeping a quilt is so different to making them to sell.

This week, one of those times was spent cuddling Evie who was sick and sleepy. It just felt so right that this quilt that comforted me, is comforting her. Like it's weaving its colour through our joy and sorrow to become part of us.

I'm linking up to the Blogger's Quilt Festival. Welcome if you've stopped by from there! 

Quilt Stats:

Size: 55" x 60"

Field Study voile and quilting cotton. 

Hand quilted with Yellow Perle 8.

Jodi. xx