I made the second quilt that I used while I was in college during the summer of 1999. After 3 semesters in school, I started co-oping. So Spring 1999 I lived in Hampton, VA, and worked for NASA Langely Research Center. The way co-oping is set up, I would work a semester, go to school for a semester, etc., until I graduated. That was going to be hard to accommodate with dorm room and roommate drama, so I paired up with another girl in engineering on my same co-op rotation schedule, and we decided to be roommates off-campus starting Spring 2000. Which really translated into: bigger bed! Yay! So I made this quilt and used it until I got married. It’s still one of the two quilts on my bed. I paid a quilter with a long arm to do the quilting, and there is so much material in the center of each star that she broke 10 needles quilting it for me.
College Star Quilt
College Star Quilt – Detail