Last year, a (then) virtual friend I’d met on Facebook (FB) lost a cousin unexpectedly. Another virtual friend and I said we’d make prayer shawls for the widow, her aunt and uncle and a quilt for the little boy he left behind.
Unfortunately, my MS has been difficult for me to deal with for the past year – hence, I’m a year late (blush) in getting these prayer shawls completed. I actually made them while I was in Iowa with my FM last summer but could NOT get the motivation to quilt them! I got to meet Kim and take the shawl tops to her but said I’d get them back to her once they were quilted and ready to go.
When my FM came in January, she warned me that she was not bringing any of her own projects down and that I had better have enough things for her to do to keep her busy. Of course, once I gave her my to-do list, my husband piped up that I was obviously setting up a sweat shop. 🙂
My FM hand-quilted the two shawls, then I put the binding on them and she whip-stitched the back of the binding – then I made the tags and she blind-stitched them to the backs of the shawls!
Because of the religious preference of the recipients, we called these comfort shawls instead of prayer shawls. They were designed using three Jacob’s Ladder quilt blocks and two Garden of Eden quilt blocks, though the blocks on my shawls are a larger size than the blocks from the website indicated.
It looks like I’d better get a few more of them ready so the next intended recipient doesn’t have to wait a year on me getting more made!
