Recently Julia Davis of @redrainbootshandmade hosted a
Stars and Stripes Quilt along featuring the
Stars and Stripes pattern from Camille Roskelley of Thimbleblossoms.
I had already made one of these quilts but there is nothing like a quilt-along to encourage you to jump in on another project.
Several people in my family have hinted that they want their own flag quilt and I have a fairly large family!
My daughter (only girl with 4 brothers) got wind that I was making another one
of Camille’s quilts and she decided
she wanted to make one as a gift.
I couldnt believe this and I didnt dare want to pass up the opportunity of JIllian making a quilt.
She hasn’t made a quilt since she was in fourth grade.
She did win a prize at the Dallas Quilt Show for her sunflower nine patch quilt.
She seems to think it was a participation ribbon and all the kids got one.
I dont remember it like that at all!!
Jillian lives about an hour away from me but comes to town often, so we took this project on.
She had a deadline!!
She was on a mission!!
Great photo props in the country!
A little photo op in the country with a lady bug landing on one of the quilts…
GOOD LUCK!!
JIllian showing off the quilt she made that will be gifted this week.
I always joke that it is just as fast to make 2 quilts as it is to make 1,
so while she was sewing away I was cutting and cutting and cutting.
She thought she would never finish which was quite humorous.
What she didnt know was that I was sewing another set of flags after she went home.
I found the perfect shade of green (jillian’s favorite color)
and a yummy green fireside/snuggles fabric for the back.
Sent both quilt tops off to the quilter (Red Velvet Quilts) in time to finish before the fourth of July.
I have made several flag quilts in my lifetime but I have never made 3 from the same pattern, really 2 and helped with the third.
But I am hooked on this quilt and will probably make many more. Remember that big family I mentioned?
Wishing everyone a wonderful Independence Day!
-Modalissa