Mid-January Ashy announced that she was going to make a quilt for her gentleman caller’s 21st birthday in late Febraury. Fabric was selected and ordered. My only contributions to the project were the provision of funds and the quilting. She cut, stitched and worked diligently by herself for three whole days until an ENORMOUS 2.5m by 2.2m quilt was made.
I have been waiting for days to photograph this beauty.
I wanted to lay it out on our green lucious lawn…
but it has been raining here for almost three months. That beautiful grass looks appealing, but you can’t walk on it without squelching through water.
So instead I had to take a photo of it scrunched up on some chairs…
It looks lovely like that, can you imagine how beautiful it is unscrunched?
Peppermint Patcher 
WOW – what a stunning quilt!! How fun that your daughter also shares the quilting gene:)
She has done a beautiful job and made something so different to anything I would make.
Oh, the colours – it’s stunning! What a very fortunate gentleman caller he is.
She took a loooong time to select just the right fabric range. He is most impressed by her selection.
What grows in the trees, comes out in the branches. As my Nan would have said.
Just gorgeous!
I had never heard this saying before! What a wise woman your Nan was.
Wow Ashy! Awesome job. Good work by your assistant too, I hope she didn’t muck up the quilting part of it.
Thankfully they both approved of the work I had done.
Oh wow – Ashy has gained your quilting hand by the looks of it. Well done. Hope her man likes it!
Oh, he loves it.
Well done Ashy,
Lucky gentleman caller!
He is most appreciative… in many ways.
It’s gorgeous! She has obviously inherited her mother’s talent for quilting. He must be a very special gentleman caller!
He is indeed very special. We’re all very lucky to know him.
That is amazing! I really love that. The colours are superb and they really….errr….pop!
Lucky guy!
She is very clever in the ways of colour popping…
Loving dragonfly’s quote!
Me too! I think it will become a part of my vernacular.
So fresh and colourful – lovely job and lucky gentleman caller!
For more reasons than just this quilt…
I love the fresh colours and the concentric squares. What a project – it’s stunning!
The white really makes the colours look bright and the freshness factor evident.
So lovely. Three days??? You mean if I had you for a mother, when I retire and have time, I too could do that in three days?
If you know what I mean…
She’s a very determined girl once she gets working. I’m sure you have that quality too.
Gorgeous, please let Ashy know that she did a wonderful job. And of course as alway you did a marvellous job quilting it.
I think she’s pretty proud of herself.
It is fabulous when seen in “person”. Ashy has the family eye for colour (your family not the previous generation).
Now – the wifi wont let me in to fb at this stage , and the sim card won’t let me text. I gave one of your sisters the phone number of the phone. Could someone please try that number with a prefix of 84 and drop the first 0. We are really enjoying ourselves in HoChiMinh City; tomorrow we go to Mekong Delta, then the next day to Vung Tau – I think. Sorry to your regular readers for taking up their time. Love you.
No problem. I’ve passed this on to the others. I’m glad you’re enjoying yourselves.
The number is not working. Can you call one of us?
It’s wonderful, quilting with your daughter, isn’t it?
And this is a very lovely quilt — the beau must be pretty special to be worthy of such a beautiful and generous gift!
He is most certainly worthy of the amazing quilt that Ashy created.
Oh my goodness. So, so beautiful. All I can say is that I hope this gentleman caller is a ‘keeper’.
I am quite certain that he is a keeper. We haven’t managed to scare him away yet…