An Android Surprise!

Ok, so I need to do a bit of an explanation first…

At the beginning of last year I was lucky enough to tag along with my boyfriend to Paris and Barcelona. He had been asked to attend a GSMA Mobile conference in Barcelona (A very large tech-ie show, much like our quilting shows but with mobile phones, tablets, software and gadgets).

One of the major sponsors of the conference is Android. Android is an operating system for mobiles and tablets and has a little green android for it’s logo. On the second day we noticed that some people were wearing little green android pins/badges. I LOVE collecting pins, so after asking around we found out that all the stands that supported Android had a little Android man holding up a bowl on each counter. And in each bowl was a different pin.

The Google stand was the ‘official’ Android stand and they had a map of all the stands with pins as well as having some very cute limited edition pins there each day.

So in our free time (when we weren’t working of course) we ran around like mad crazy people trying to collect all the pins… there were 86 in total. It was so much fun and we ended up getting 50 each! Al attached them to the strap on his bag and we got stopped all the time with people wanting to check them out!

We had so many of them and I didn’t want to just put them away in a drawer when we got home, so me being a quilter I thought what better way to display them than on a quilt!

So this Christmas (2011) I wanted to make something special for him to remember the fun we had in Barcelona. I designed this wall quilt to display all the pins we collected and I wrote a cute little poem on the back.

I’m wrapped with it and he thought it was the coolest present ever!

Here is the little poem on the back and Al with the pins on his bag.

This quilt sums us up perfectly… his tech-ie-ness and my love of making quilts.

So till next time… Happy Quilting!

PS: be sure to come back and check out Mez’s Christmas update!