My great-nephew, John, has had a very eventful 2024. He got married in June, his master’s degree in Computer Science from Cornell in July, and moved to California to start his new job as a software engineer at Intel in August. The whole family is so very proud of him. I know my sister, Jackie, who has been gone for seven years, would be bursting at the seams with pride. I’m pretty sure she is well aware of John’s accomplishments. Sometime in June, I was awakened at 1:00 a.m., and it seemed like Jackie whispered to me, “You need to make a quilt for John.” I tossed and turned for awhile and started thinking about what quilt would be good for John. I knew I wanted it to have clean lines and a modern aesthetic. I decided to make Modern Handcraft’s Ranges quilt pattern in sunset gradient colors, and I knew I wanted the quilting to be wavy to reinforce the mountain vibe. Cara at Sew Colorado Quilting suggested the Modern Waves–Gentle quilting pattern, which I think works perfectly for this 64″ x 78″ throw-size quilt, and the thread she used is called Desert Sunset. The Kona fabrics used for the quilt front were School Bus, Kumquat, Flame, Red, Watermelon, Sangria, and Bordeaux.

I used Kona Berry for the binding and the back of the quilt along with a strip of all the fabrics used on the front.

I love it when recipients of my quilts send me pics of them with their quilt. Here is one of John after he received my package with a photo bomb by their dog, Jack, named after my sister and also my father, Jack Ringer.

I wanted to include a photo of John and his beautiful bride, Bekah, and John sent me this lovely photo:

John and Bekah live about 20 minutes from where I grew up in Sacramento, CA. I definitely hope to see them soon, hopefully on my next visit to California.