Greetings, My friend, Elverta, and I attended a beginning quilt class in February of 2001. She got her quilt done pretty much by the end of class, which was three weekends in a row or something. It turns out I get the newsletter from this quilt shop and they still teach the same quilt today as they did back then. It is an Ohio Star quilt. I had some trouble figuring out how the sashing and cornerstones were supposed to fit on this quilt, so I gave up and put it away for 19 years. It has been on my To Do List for about nine years. In May, I finally dragged it out of the cabinet and managed to use up all the fabric that I had with it. I got it finished today. Binding on and done. D said she doesn't feel so bad about having old unfinished projects now, since it took me nineteen years to get this one finished. I'm glad to be an inspiration to others.
One thing that spurred me on is Donna, a beginning quilter, who said she had signed up for that class for this Feb of 2020. In January, when she told me, I knew I had to get the lead out and get my quilt finished or she would beat me! A little competition goes along way with me! Here is my finished quilt . . . it is not as big as Elverta's, (and likely not as big as Donna's). However, it has an amazing flying geese boarder that it would not have had, had I finished more than a year sooner. Phyllis taught me about flying geese and I love how it added additional traditional features to this quilt.
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| quilted by Sid Mooney |
