Do you have a subject or special technique in the quilt ?
i wish you to enjoy making it and having it
mirjam

The pattern is one that I designed on a pad of hotel note paper while
at a very boring meeting about amending birth certificates in
Washington DC. Since the hotel was located in Foggy Bottom (near the
Watergate Hotel), I named it Foggy Bottom. The quilt is based upon a
12" block with the smallest bit 1", the largest 2", and lots of half-
square triangles -- 72 bits of fabric in each block. The blocks are
turned for assembly, so there is an overall pattern with major
diagonals over the quilt with stars alternated with flowers in the
centers. This quilt is 9 blocks by 9 blocks and will fit a queen bed
as a bedspread or king bed as a coverlet. Every stitch in this quilt
is by hand. If I were to compare it to known patterns I would have to
say that it is like Jacobs Ladder but much more complex. This is a
quilt I intend to keep and to use on my bed, so I am very grateful
that the dog likes to sleep under the covers or on sheets at the top
of the bed rather than on a quilt or bedspread! He's very clean as
dogs go, but is still a dog. Sheets get changed every 5 days or so,
but laundering a quilt means a special trip to the laundromat, and
frequent laundering of quilts is rather hard on them. I have pieced
quite a few blocks of this quilt during quiet afternoons at sea on
several cruise ships, in the Caribbean, in the Mediterranean, and on
two Trans-Atlantic crossings, so parts of this quilt are rather well-
travelled.