Another Busy Day Quilt # 16

It has been another busy day her at 

Darvanalee Designs

today we worked on Joyce's Quilt

there is a funny story behind how Joyce 

found me...You see Joyce has been quilting for many years

mostly by hand...Joyce is 80 yrs young...recently she was not feeling her 

best and was laying in Hospital talking to another 

patient...while they were chatting away the conversation turned 

to quilting and crafting...while there were happily chatting away 

Joyce happen to mention that her friend and herself were working on 

a quilt for her daughter...she asked the lady if she knew of anyone 

that would be able to help her finish it...as she din't want to have to do this 

one by hand....well the lady laying next to Joyce told her about this young girl 

that was quilting for a lot of people here in Kingaroy (yep that's me a young girl LOL) 

anyway this lady just happened to have a business card of mine in her handbag and 

promptly gave it to Joyce...after a couple days stay in Hospital 

Joyce was released and first thing she did after she got home and unpacked 

was to ring me and book her quilt in....at the time I was on Holidays over the Christmas break 

so we arranged for Joyce to come and meet me and have a chat about 

what she wanted done on her Quilt 

In the end Joyce decided that she wanted to have stippling all around the candle-wicked 

blocks and to leave the big 10 inch blocks plain...but this was not a good solution to those 

10 inch blocks so I showed Joyce some of the options that we had available to stitch into 

the blocks...just so there was not negative space..

we decided on a Dove with flowers up in the corners...just to hold it down for many years to 

come...

here in this picture you can see a sample of Joyce's work on the blocks 

each one has a different Candle-wicked design :) just gorgeous

I can wait till mine is finished...I have been working on it for many years 

you can see here the end result for the quilt 

Joyce was over the moon about her quilt 

and couldn't wait to get it home and get the 

binding on it and get it to her Daughter asap

Well it is time for me to get onto the 

next quilt :) 

Happy Quilting ") N