our wedding quilt is here!  thank goodness our quilter emailed me pictures when she was finished making it,  because i would have been blown away if i had just opened the package without an appropriate warning of how fantastic this quilt is.  LOOK!!!…

what a treasure, huh?  i love it!!!  it’s absolutely perfect!  she did the most amazingly wonderful job (and in record time- it took her 4 days!)!  even if you are not in the market for a quilt, you should really check out her shop, lmk quilts, on etsy.   her creations may inspire you to reconsider.

here’s a detail photo…

we are planning to hang it (with the sleeve attached on the back solely for this purpose) but are unsure of where.  perhaps in the guest bedroom- it’s quite big, so we need a pretty empty wall.  i hope we find the perfect spot, because once its displayed, its loveliness and all the love spread through the messages from our family and friends can be cherished daily.

instead of asking guests to sign a traditional guest book at our wedding, my mom had the very lovely idea of asking guests to write messages on pieces of fabric quilting squares.  four years later, the squares were still sitting in the same bag up in the attic patiently awaiting the day that they would be crafted into something nice.  i decided that the time had come…four years was long enough to wait.  it was time to do something with the signature squares. 

i spent a few weeks “interviewing” quilters, making the messages from all of our fabulous wedding guests dark enough to read from afar, picking out fabrics, and looking at LOTS of quilts.  i found a very nice and thoughtful lady who seems to understand and appreciate my vision for the project perfectly.  at this very moment, she is piecing together my fabrics and creating what i hope will be the best quilt i have ever seen.  i am so looking forward to seeing the final product!  stay tuned for pictures…