Quilt #108: On Ringeis Lake

2017 was my year of social quilting. I joined a ton of quilt alongs, including Bonnie Hunter's annual mystery quilt, On Ringeis Lake. 

The very first quilt along I ever did was Bonnie's 2016 mystery quilt En Provence, which I called A team en Provence.

Bonnie is the queen of scrappy quilts. I now look forward to her annual mystery because I now I can make a (small) dent in my scrap bins and end up with something stunning. 

I seem to use a lot of blues, teals, and purples, so this year I veered from Bonnie's color way. 

Because it was a mystery quilt, I had no idea what the finished project would look like. I also had no idea to whom I would gift the quilt. As the weeks went along, I started thinking about my son's teacher. At D's school, teachers move up with the class, so Mrs. Ringeis was completing her second year with with D. I remembered how she met him when he was brand new to the school in preschool and joined an after school Lego job that she oversaw. The very first time I picked him up, she pulled me aside and said, "You know he's gifted, right?" 

I don't talk too much about D's giftedness, in large part because Mrs. Ringeis was the catalyst for us getting him tested and finding resources to support his quirks and asynchronous development. She took him under his wing before she was his teacher, and since becoming his primary teacher he has matured and bloomed. She "gets" him and he adores her.

We have joked that whenever I make a quilt for someone at school, they leave. Fortunately, the trend has changed since I gave his principal her quilt: 

With only one more year left with this amazing school, I knew I needed to start working on quilts for all the incredible people who have been such a huge part of D's life so far. So Ringo Lake became Ringeis Lake.

After the quilt was finished and D had slept with it--the final and most important step to "seal in the love"--I emailed the school to get permission to come by to deliver it. 

When she saw D with the bag, she looked at me and said, "No, no, no! I have one more year!" I assured her we weren't going anywhere!

This is one of my favorite quilts for one of my favorite people. And I love that D helped with the label.

To see more pictures of the making of this quilt, check out #OnRingeisLake on Instagram. To see what I'm currently working on, follow me on at deJongDreamHouse.

Linked to:
BOMs Away @ What a Hoot Quilts
Colour Linky Party @ Clever Chameleon
Design Wall Monday @ Small Quilts & Doll Quilts
Finished or Not Friday @ Busy Hands Quilts
Let's Bee Social @ Sew Fresh Quilts
Linky Tuesday @ Freemotion by the River
Look What I Made Monday @ Pretty Piney

Main Crush Monday @ Cooking Up Quilts
Midweek Makers @ Quilt Fabrication

Monday Making @ Love Laugh Quilt
Moving It Forward @ Em's Scrap Bag
Needle & Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation
Off the Wall Friday @ Nina Marie
Oh Scrap! @ Quilting is More Fun Than Housework
Scrappy Happy Saturday @ Super Scrappy
Show Off Saturday @ Sew Can She
To Do Tuesday @ Stitch All the Things
Wait Loss Wednesday @ The Inquiring Quilter
Whoop Whoop Friday @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict
WIP Linky Party @ Silly Mama Quilts
WIP Wednesday @ Esther's Blog