Finally a Quilt to Show, But It's Not Mine

Our church quilters' group our donation quilt last week, and handed it over to the Youth Director for safe keeping until the church auction later in the year.  The pattern was from a magazine named "Scrap Quilting Made Easy", and the name of the pattern in that magazine was "Diamonds Jubilee."   We actually had finished piecing it in June and had taken it to a long arm quilter to be quilted.  We got it back a couple of weeks ago, and one of our quilters got the binding on by machine.  It finished at 92" x 84".  The backing is plain muslin.

I didn't get it hung very straight, but it really is.

Closeup before quilting.

Our quilters all had a hard time making this one.  We pieced it from scraps that had been given to us, and none of us are really crazy about making scrap quilts.  We finally just cut lots of squares and triangles, and haphazardly sewed together whatever we picked up.  We were glad when we finally got it finished.  We had to admit that after it was quilted, it looked better that we had thought it might.

As I was printing the pictures of the finished quilt, something came to mind that made the quilt much more acceptable.  The name of the quilt is "Diamonds Jubilee,"  words often connected with a 75th anniversary, right?  Well, this is the 75th anniversary year for our church!  What better name or pattern could we have chosen?!!  Isn't it amazing how God works?  We all felt much better when I shared that revelation with them all.  We shared the story with the pastor, and he plans to use the idea in the promotion of the quilt at the auction in December at the close of our 75th year.