A Perfect Gift

My friend from the Chesapeake Bay area brought me a package of fabrics that she bought in India.  I quickly got to work and made her a coexistence quilt, combining Bedouin embroidery with some of the fabric that she gave me! 

Here is a close-up on the embroidery, which was made so carefully and so professionally by one of the women who work at the Desert Embroidery non-profit workshop in Laquiya in the northern Negev. 

The finished quilt is the size of a couch quilt, meant to be used as a decorative element on her couch.