Quilting Meeting

I finished Catherine's quilt Moonflower. It is a hexagon grandmothers flower garden.

This is the first time that I have seen it "all at once". Usually I can see parts of it when I put it on a bed. But because it draps off the sides of the bed I could not see the whole thing.
Also the small perspective helps to digest it as a whole, and so it is very exciting too see it this way.

It took me 15 years to finish it. Two years I lost the quilt and thought that it had been thrown away in a move. What actually happened was, I needed the box I had put the quilt in so I moved it to a larger box. I have a visual memory of things and it is a powerful tool. But in this case the box in my mind, which was smaller was not the box that my quilt was in.
When we moved to Bend we unpacked everything and re-evaluated what we had and I found my quilt!!! In the mean time I had started on another scrappy hexagon quilt. I got that one sandwiched together to quilt last month!!
This quilt is all hand quilted. When I started quilting the little hexagons my kids thought I could just cheat and skip a few. I told them no I had to quilt each one of them. I think they thought that would take another 15 years. Fortunately it took a little over a year to do.
Hope this inspires you to create a hexagon quilt. In the fifteen years there are fabrics and thus history of my children in this quilt. It is a holder of time. A work of art and love.