Our newest quilt

Manda and I are making a quilt for one of her best friends who is due to have her baby in January.  Manda has finished off this top with all of the hand embroidery, and now it's my turn to add the border fabric and the backing and quilt it.  We had a lot of fun designing this one and making the animals.  It's going to be wonderful when it's all done.  And it's been so fun working together on this.  Our second one!  

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out ... - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness...” 
― Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending