I designed this quilt to honor my parents’ 65th wedding anniversary.
Of course, I had to totally bring on my A game here to design something truly original for the occasion! My mother is a very accomplished sailor. She has used her incredible sailing skills to race the Rolex International Women’s Keelboat twice – widely regarded as an Olympics level race, many Newport to Bermuda open sea races – an equally world class competition, the Havana Cup and more. She has done three transatlantic crossings and sailed over 70,000 ocean miles. My parents love to take trips sailing up the New England coast together.
So, this quilt was designed with 25 different detailed representations of actual lighthouses from New Jersey on up to Maine that they sail past together.
Each embroidered lighthouse was stitched out using 25-50 individual thread colors to get the perfect shading necessary to make them look almost realistic. And because I totally love math, quick math fact – the embroidery alone for the lighthouses is over 1,048,000 stitches!
I even used very subtle custom ruler based quilting in the borders to look like continuous roping for that perfect nautical touch.
Enjoy!