For a Mermaid

I don't want to spoil a surprise, but I just sent a package to Elizabeth for her beautiful daughter, Sophie, and I have to show you what's in it. Sophie and Katie share the same birthday, the same year, so I feel a special connection with her. She loves the beach and the sea, and the mermaid is one of the constant pictures on her mom's wonderful blog, a moon, worn as if it had been a shell.

Sophie has epilepsy, and when I saw the photos of her lovely room on Elizabeth's posting about Sophie's birthday, I thought a quilt would be a cozy thing to send to her. So I made a mermaid-themed quilt for Sophie, and it is on its way to her.

Normally, my quilts (made for patients at the hospital) have only one piece of fabric on each side. I am not an experienced quilter AT ALL. But I tried to make this one especially interesting for Sophie, so it has some different fabrics on the top side. It has two panels of this mermaid fabric:

and two sections of fabric that look like clouds and the sea,

surrounding a blue and white mermaid panel:

the back is flannel:

and both sides look like this (one folded over the other).

The binding is rainbow satin that matches both sides.

It was a joy to create, and though there are imperfections in it, love is the main ingredient.

I hope Sophie will enjoy and find comfort in it!