Stars for Jacey and Elliott

many of you know that i have a super good friend named JACEY.  

jacey and i met because we are in the Wonky Bee together. 

we became friends because she is super awesome!  seriously, i love that girl!

jacey, she got engaged a few months back and i was so happy for her.  over the moon excited for her and i really wanted to make her something special.  
an idea was formed in my little brain and i sneakily asked her who her favorite online people were...  she gave me a list.  and i sent an email to those people asking them if they were interested in contributing a star block for a special quilt for jacey.  most everyone said yes!
 a plan was hatched and a flickr group was formed... secretly of course. 
and the blocks started pouring in.  

once i received all the blocks... all 30 of them.  

(forgive me for not having individual pics of all the blocks)

i started putting it together

it was so so fun to make this for elliott and jacey!  
a special gift for a special couple from many hands!

i was overwhelmed by the response.  everyone was so happy to make blocks! members of her quilt guild asked if they could ask the other members if they wanted contribute and of course i said the more the merrier! and quickly our flickr group grew and grew!


the only requirements were make a star block in shades of yellow, grey, and navy/blue and add a little embroidery on it.  so look closely, every single block has some embroidery on it.  some people put their name on the block. others put a sweet note or thought for the happy couple. but all of the blocks have something. it warms my heart!


"love hopes all things" 
"happily every after"
"smooch"
"J+E"

if you look closely you can see the name tag for this quilt...  it is on Jen's s yellow star block on the far left third from the top...  it says "the babymaker" as we were chatting about the quilt on flickr we were talking about a tag for the quilt and Kaelin came up with this because honestly, the world could use a few more Jacey's running around! ;)


so thank you to everyone who helped make this quilt.


Amanda
Amanda
Amy
Beth
Betty (Jacey's gramma)
Bryanna
Chawne
Chris
Cindy (jacey's mom)
Fi
Freida
Gabriella
Jen
Jessica
Jill (jacey's sister)
Jules
Kaelin
Liz
Maureen
Melissa
Me
Paula
Rachel
Robin
Safieh
Sally
Sam
Sara
Tammy


it was a pleasure!


xox
nicke


p.s. 
i am linking to amy's bloggers quilt festival!