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I needed a gift for my niece who was graduating from a Masters program, an incredible achievement! So proud of her, so I wanted something special which, of course, means handmade. So I pulled out my resources: my stash and MSQ tutorials! I was still a bit of a novice at this quilting bug so I needed easy and quick. I only had a month until the celebration. I was very pleased with what I had created but the best reward was that my niece loved it and my sisters thought their big sister was pretty talented.

had some stash fabric I wanted to use. second picture is of the extra ones I had that I did only one snowball to each corner instead of 2 and it had a totally different look

In 1982, after finishing our Trainee time as Commercial employees in Switzerland, a friend and I went to Ireland for almost a year to study English. The aim was to become more fluent, getting a wider vocabluary and better spelling (hope I don't make a fool of myself here...) and of course finish the Thing with a paper. What I couldn't possibly know was the Impact Ireland and in particular my guest Family had on me. My husband and I have since then (we met 6 weeks before I was due to go there) spent countless Holidays on the Emerald Island and "my" Family came to Switzerland as well. We've seen children growing up here and there and weddings were attendet and grandchildren came along. Which is where the quilting came in Handy. All of "my" Irish Grandchildren have a quilt. But this is the one I made for my Irish Parents.

Simple lap quilt with lots of fun batiks.