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Sunday, June 2, 2024

Hooray For The Red, White and Blue Scraps!


It's a flimsy!
68 x 68

The pattern is Shiloh from the book The Best of Fons and Porter Scrap Quilts.  


Last year when hubby was in and out of the hospital and I had to stay close to him while he was recuperating I looked through a bunch of quilting books and bookmarked and then started several quilts.   
This was one of the quilts that I thought would work well with some patriotic print scraps. After I used up most of those I added in other red, white and blue scraps. 

I started this quilt and several others I had bookmarked last December. I am hoping to get them all to flimsy stage this year. 

Shiloh from the book The Best of Fons and Porter Scrap Quilts was inspired by a civil war era quilt in the Smithsonian.   

And sew on...


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CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)

June 1 - Garden produce...I've been eating salad crops (lettuce, spinach, mustard greens) and strawberries from the garden nearly every day. I want to harvest peas for dinner tonight but I think it might be too wet out to mess about in the garden today. 





 

10 comments:

  1. Shiloh is gorgeous! I bet it has some heft to it too;)

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  2. You're a genius to choose red, white, and blue for this quilt pattern, Cathy. It bring to mind fireworks, perfect for our patriotic celebrations!

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  3. I love this quilt. Bravo! Putting quarter blocks on the sides to reduce the big gap is genius. Looks like your garden has a good start. Mine is not planted yet. Enjoy! ;^)

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  4. What a Pretty Patriotic Pineapple quilt! And the Produce you Picked looks delicious. (We have a couple of volunteer lettuce plants from last year that I ought to harvest.)

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  5. Another gorgeous quilt top, well done you!

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  6. Gorgeous scrappy quilt! Those colors go so well together.

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  7. It's a wonderful pattern and your colour choices make it pop! Beautiful work :)

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  8. You really know how to make good use of your time. Compared to you, I move at a snail's pace! I love the quilt. You have made a lot of progress on it. Still praying for a good report for your husband.

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  9. I love this flimsy Cathy. So dramatic. Hope all is well with John, thinking of you both.

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  10. Shilo is stunning, it has a real old style quilt look, it's going to be a treasure when you quilt.

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