Here’s a drawer filled with bits and pieces of an unfinished quilt. You know those drawers … You have them too, right?

Everything I need to finish my quilt is in this drawer (I hope!) Go to my post Quilt of Dreams 2004 to see the quilt I’m making. I donated the first one to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This one is for my daughter.

This is a detail of the rainbow garden on that quilt. Luckily most of the garden is already completed.

There’s a magical stage in the quilt-making journey where you have enough skills to turn the quilts you dream up into reality, but not quite enough experience to realize just how painful a process it might be. Way back in 2004 when I dreamt up this quilt was one of those times. Oh well, at least the second time around I’ll know what to watch out for.