The retirement quilt
My boss's boss, who became my boss, and then my colleague - I've had a couple of temporary and permanent promotions over the years, while he has been happy to stick with his job - is about to retire. He's talked about retiring 'in a couple of years' pretty much the entire time I have worked with him. But now it is finally time. I've known since last year that it the date was going to be sometime in 2021, so I started planning a quilt for him as a retirement gift. I think I decided on a pattern and colours in August 2020 - I have texts from my grandma asking if I had started yet, with my reply being 'not quite...'. But I eventually settled on a Double Irish Chain pattern by Leah Day . It was in a scrappy style, and I found I had some blues left over from the Aves quilt that I liked, and I found a couple more at the usual fabric place. I also headed out to my local quilt shop for some white Kona. This was mostly strip pieced, so it went together pret...