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!