Japan-bound

This week I dropped off my quilt at Common Thread Studio. I was very excited about making a quilt for charity and while I was making it I prayed for and thought a lot about the people that were devastated by the Japan quake. But when I finished the quilt and drove it to Common Thread to drop it off, it was a bitter-sweet moment. It really took a lot for me to let go. I'm telling you, had it not been for the dedication on the quilt, I might have just kept it. I know it sounds terrible. I just have never experienced that feeling before with any of the other quilts I have made as gifts. Maybe it's because I have always made them for people with whom I have a connection and I know that I will again cross paths with my quilts. With this one, not only is it going to a person that I have never met before, it will make the journey to Japan. Chances are, I will never see it again.

The only things that made it easier, aside from knowing that it will warm up a deserving soul, were the arms that received it at the shop. Jin Kim, the owner of Common Thread is a sweetheart and was very welcoming and generous with her compliments on the quilt. So I left it in her arms and prayed that Strawberry Fields does its job when it gets to Japan.

I know that you can't read the dedication. It reads, "To my friend in Japan. This quilt was made for you with love and prayers. Sara Casillas, Whittier, California."


This is the first time I tied a quilt and I loved it. It is so much easier and quicker than quilting.

I just love the colors of the quilt. They remind me of the bouquet of rananculus I had in the family room while I was making the quilt.


On other news, Viviana and Nico helped me make banana cupcakes with peanut butter chocolate frosting. Oh, that reminds me, I forgot to tell you that I had made these cupcakes for my coworker, Rachel's birthday. I will have to tell you about that later.





They are such good little bakers!