Hmm, well here I am.

Just a few weeks ago a friend asked me if I would make a graduation quilt for their foreign exchange student.  I was excited for a new project and I love making quilts. This is the pattern she had found and requested.  The plan is for the neutral background fabric to be an area for friends to sign the quilt. As an exchange student to the USA, she requested the color scheme to be red, white and blue! I found some great colors on Connecting Threads and got them ordered. They arrived right before a large snowstorm.  I don't have a washer and dryer in my little house yet but I was oh, so impatient to get started on this project! I am still of the old school mindset that washes all the fabric before using it in a project.  I'm glad I decided to because even as I sloshed/washed these fabrics in my sink...the water did take on a hue of color! Due to the storm I couldn't run out to my parent's and wash my fabric, so I hand washed them and then stoked the fire