Being patriotic

Not all of my blog posts are in order of when I worked on projects, but as they were completed.  During the fall and winter our quilting group, The Midnight Stichers, meet most Thursdays and I'm always working on a quilt.

After being gone during the month of June visiting my daughter in Los Angeles and traveling to Mexico  I was feeling very creative.   One of my buckle list quilts was a flag wall hanging.

So who decides to make a patriotic flag wall hanging on July 1st for July 4th - ME!

This wall hanging has been on my to do list for at least ten years.  I saw a photo of this wall hanging in a clothing catalog and ripped out the page for future reference.  I came across this page while moving to my new studio so it was fresh in my mind.  I also had enough scraps from other projects to jump right in.

After several hours of measuring and calculating I drew up a pattern and got busy cutting and sewing.   The finished size is 54" by 44".  Pretty easy using half square triangles.  My confidence has grown to be able to look at a quilt and make it similar with no directions.  Probably ten years earlier I wouldn't have had the confidence to zip right through this project, so it's a good thing it stayed on my to do list until now.

Well believe it or not I finished it on July 3rd!

I bought a cafe curtain rod and made a hanging sleeve for the first time.  It will be proudly displayed outside on my front porch every summer.  At least July lit a firecracker under me and this wall hanging is crossed off my list.
I guess you can say I completed UFO #5.