That Moment

I layer a quilt -- top, batting, backing -- and baste the layers together.  I begin the slow, steady work of hand quilting, stitch after stitch, to hold the layers together.  Hours and hours, sometimes months and months, the quilt and I spend together.

And then there is that moment -- that sudden moment!  It happens when I'm near the edge, almost finished with the quilting but not quite.  I realize I'm holding a quilt.  The layers are no longer three held together by pins and long stitches but a unified one:  a quilt!  It always feels like magic and it always surprises me.

Does this magic happen to you?  Is there a moment when you realize the layers in your hands have become a quilt?

--Nancy.
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