Claire and Graham live in Connecticut.  She works remotely for Chatbooks in Utah as a senior data analyst.  They fly her here several times a year for corporate meetings.  She came this week and will join us next week at the beach (working remotely from there).  We’ve had a few evenings together and one of the things on the top of her list was to pull fabric for a quilt she wants to make.  She sent me a picture of it a few weeks ago and I started pulling some fabrics from my stash.  She also loves scrappy quilts made from all kinds of fabrics.  We’ve had a lot of fun together in my sewing room!

It’s interesting to see how our minds work.  Her mind works in spreadsheets and figures.  Mine doesn’t.  I pull, she counts.  I tend to over cut, then narrow down, she is more precise.

I have enough fabric in my quilt room to make 100s of quilts.  One scrap quilt feels like a drop in the bucket.  We cut a 2.5″ strip off of each piece we selected.  Claire wanted to sew a few together to get the hang of it before packing the fabric up to take home with her.

This whole post makes me so happy I can almost not stand it.  Claire said to me, “Mom, when you’re gone, can I have all this fabric??”  She even loves the old stuff, the charming vintage pieces that I bought years ago.  They also speak to her, my favorite language.

This is the quilt that is speaking to her right now.  It’s called a rectangle coin quilt.

I love it too.  It’s cozy and charming.  It’s vintage with a touch of modern, bright with a bit of dull.  A nice collection of fabrics to wrap up in.