Sweet Asha

In mid-February, our dear friends Emily and Jonathan were chosen by a birth mother to be adoptive parents.  Such exciting wonderful news for some amazing people!  I was honored when Emily asked me to help her with a quilt to give to the birth mother as part of a "Celebration of Women" gift basket.  Emily chose a pattern for the quilt top*, we did some fabric shopping, and then we got together several evenings to work on it.  Now, Emily will downplay the part she played and say all she did was iron things while I did all the real work.  But that's not true (I'm not calling her a liar or anything, she just did a lot more than she'll claim).  The one part that I told Emily I would just take care of is the binding.

Top: birth mother quilt; Bottom: Asha's quilt

Once I finished that up, I took the quilt over to Emily and Jonathan's place where Jonathan tied the final yarn in place and it was done.  Just in time too--the very next day Emily and Jonathan were on a flight to meet their new baby--Asha Scout Wade--who was about 10 days early.

While they were out of town, I worked on the next part of the project--the coordinating quilt for Asha.  The family of three came home to Raleigh yesterday, and we were lucky enough to meet sweet Asha (and visit with her parents) tonight.  I love that baby--I could just gobble her up.  (Sorry I have no pictures of Asha, I was too distracted by holding her to think of that. )

*She decided to use the same pattern as this quilt.