Keeping Secrets

If you ask most of my family they will tell you that when it comes to keeping secrets (especially around the holidays) I am horrible.  I guess I get really excited and what to know if they are going to like their gifts, therefore I sometimes spill the beans.  It is never intentional, but rather something that just slips out.

This year I have to brag though.  I started on my Brother's Christmas present in August.  Years and Years ago he had asked our Grandmother to make him a Log Cabin quilt.  They could never see eye to eye on material and it never came to be.  I knew that he wanted the quilt to be a value scale in Red.  (I like the idea as well because I see so many quilts that are too busy with patterned material no one notices the craftsmanship.)  After walking into a fabric store this summer that all changed. There in front of my eyes was a huge selection just of solid fabrics, so as I started to skim over the Red section I realize that there would be enough different reds to actually make the Log Cabin Quilt.  After saying I would never make a traditional quilt again.  I gave it a shot for my Brother.  I used one of Eleanor Burn's Quilt in a Day books and the sewing went by quickly and smoothly.  The only problem was I had to get it out of the house before my Brother came back to MO to visit.  So off to the quilters it went.  I had an Amish lady do the quilting for me and just let her have the reins on the quilting pattern.  When she called at the end of Oct/early Nov. I was so excited.  The Quilt turned out beautifully and I somehow managed to keep my excitement and not spill the beans.  Below you will see the quilt proudly in use at my Brother's house.