Speaking of Gifts…

I have been quietly accumulating pictures of things I have blogged about. Because I am not yet into the digital age, my pictures lag behind my thoughts and blogs, and occasionally I forget that I have things to share.
I have a very dear friend on-line who’s mother has taken up quilting. Quilting Mom lives in Scotland. I sent her a subscription to Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine for Christmas, knowing the magazine was most likely not available there. I wanted her to see the range of cottons available here, and to see some of the techniques American quilters use. I hoped it would encourage her to continue to take lessons.
It turns out the magazines have been a great hit. QM shares them with her classmates, and her quilting teacher and her daughter. I have it on good authority that each issue is well thumbed through. I can’t begin to tell you how happy I was to be able to share them.
Quilting Mom enjoyed them so much, that she very quietly set about making two appliqu