Happy Birthday to Dr. Muhlestein

Tracie caught me snoozing as I was trying to finish the binding.

If you look really hard, you can see Gelder William Lewis with a heart.

I love it!  Quilted with overlapping circles to represent Eternity.

Ready to deliver.

I always knew that I would be making a quilt for Dr. M.  Bill and I had even talked about it.  I just couldn't wrap my brain around it for the longest time.  One day I stumbled onto the perfect fabric for Bill.  Moda's "Reunion" featured fabric that looked like checkered flags, and then banners that looked like what you would see at a race.  Perfect for Bill.  Then I added some red to represent "the heart" for Dr. M.  He was Bill's cardiologist.  I finally finished it this morning.  As luck would have it, son-in-law Josh works at IMC on the very same floor as this wonderful man.  He checked his schedule for us, and found out we could come today before 12:30 or tomorrow after 12:30.  We decided today would be best, but I had to hurry.  It was a mad dash, but it all worked out and we were on the road by 11:30.  He was thrilled to get it.  He loved it.  He kept marveling at how perfect the stitches were on the quilting, and so I had to explain it had been machine quilted.  All of the rest was cut, pieced, and bound with love by hand especially for him. We wanted it to represent the great gratitude and appreciation that we have for him as he helped us through this most difficult time.  The word, "gratitude" kept going through my head all morning, and I know it was Bill making sure that was what he wanted expressed.  So I told him how much we loved and appreciated him.  While we were there, someone in his office said, "It's his birthday today!".  We had no idea, but all the more fun.  He said that it was his first present, and he loved it!