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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Red and White Treasure

Canada is celebrating its red and whiteness today!  :0  So I thought I'd postpone stripping for a week and show some red and white myself.

I am a big fan of Gwen Marston and early on in my quilting life I was going to make a dozen miniatures to compliment my folk art period.  Unfortunately the folk art period passed before I got very many done. ;^)  This is hand appliqued.  I also tried my sewing machine's hand quilting stitch.  Boy, all that back and forth took a long time to stitch out!  :O

I had made three quilts for my parents but my mum kept talking about a red and white quilt that her mother had made.  I finally figured she wanted one also.  It must have been an Ohio Star and I was not looking forward to making a two colour boring quilt.  :{  I actually used an early EQ program to make sure I wouldn't be doing this twice. ha! If I alternated the colours it looked better to me.  So I proceeded. The blocks are about 9 inches.  And as a nod to my assymetricalism  I put a wee star in the corner.  The backing is a strawberry print, my mum's favourite fruit.  The batting is 100% cotton and I machine quilted it in a plaid pattern to add a bit of Scottish heritage.

I was still into miniatures and couldn't resist making a smaller version for myself. I think these are 6 inch blocks and then the wee guy.  I hadn't quite figured out that miniatures take just as much time as full size quilts.  LOL

They were made as a Christmas present and I called mine Peppermint Star!  A sweet treasure!

I am linking this up to Jenn's Throwback Thursday!