Reenie's Twist and Shout

Now this is a REAL Christmas quilt! This Mom, Reenie, gives her kids special T-shirts for every Christmas season.

Since the kids have outgrown the shirts, she had us make two very different quilts, reflecting the different personalities of each of her boys. This one needed to be as fun as possible so we chose a 'twist and turn' as our layout with the four corner squares being just a simple striped piecing project. We finished it with a unique quilting pattern using our APQS Millennium longarm machine.

Reenie was fully involved throughout the entire project and personally picked out all the fabrics herself, even though she is not a quilter. Her eye for pattern and color was truly excellent and we were very impressed with the way the diverse fabric patterns came together.

When she picked up the quilts in early December, we received a great early Christmas gift ourselves - tears of joy when she saw the way they had turned out, with hugs all around.

What a great joy - to make someone happy while doing our 'jobs' - in fact, it is not just a job; it is a passion.