Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

A post recently from Quilting Gallery caught my attention regarding their Show and Tell which currently is about Patriotic quilts.   I thought I have one I can enter!      I did not even have a good picture of this one as it was hastily made prior to my husband leaving for Afghanistan.  Close ups on my blog but not a decent full length picture.   No space in this house for hanging larger quilts!  But,  I got the boys to hang off the stairway... and took a pic.   Please hop over to The Quilting Gallery  and vote!   Scroll down to the bottom of that page to view the quilts.   Best of all, you can vote for THREE of your favorite quilts.    The quilts are listed in alphabetical order and the name of my quilt is Enduring Freedom.        

Done.  I love it and with the Americana colors, I could use this year round if I wanted.   Decisions on binding to use.  The pattern calls for the binding to be cut with the fabric used for the 4 blocks in the corners (blue star in my quilt).  I know this will look good.   But I also have just enough dark blue binding left over from Riverbed Reflections to bind this.... decisions, decisions.... An unexpected finish - I like the way the quilting in the body of the quilt "morphs" into the crosshatched border.  Opted to not SID between the body and the border to keep that look.

A guild that I belong to hosted a workshop with Debbie Bacon of Bacon Bits and Pieces this month.  We worked on a small QST project where we were supposed to perfect our piecing for these very small units and create a Red/White/Blue patriotic wallhanging for the holidays (or substitue any colorway of your choice).  Susi came through with her promise that all attending would get one of her crazy little garden flags and they were all so cute!  Getting ready to post this, I realized somehow the last few months photos are just gone from  my phone camera!  I'm so glad I recently transfered about 1000 photos to my computer so all that I'm missing are maybe 2 months of photos that are now gone forever.  No photos to share of the class... but some of my favorites that others worked up included one in brown batiks, pastels and my very favorite was done Amish style with black background. The little quilt is on the frame and hopefully will be qu...