Wedding Quilt

Last night I decided that the wait had been long enough and uploaded some pictures of my newest quilt. In all my wedding planning I stumbled across the idea of doing a signature quilt. The idea behind this type of quilt is that friends and loved ones have an oppotunity to write a short message of well wishes, or just simply their signature, that will all be included to create one memory quilt for us to have as a wedding token. Essentially we created a guest book on fabric that we will have forever remind us of the wonderful day and all those who shared in it with us.

For the top of the quilt I decided to do a double wedding ring pattern with the color palette of the wedding. The back of the quilt is where all the signature blocks were used. As you can see each guest got their own square to right something special to us...some are pretty funny, some are pretty sincere, and others are just doddles from the kids. The variety from one block to the next is part of the reason I liked the idea so much.

To add one additional touch I embroidered a larger block with our names and the date of our wedding so that years from now when this get passed down to other generations they will always be able to remember where it came from.

Special thanks to Sonya and Shelley for helping with the preparation and design. You girls are the best! I am already looking forward to the next one.