National Quilting Day was established in 1991 by the National Quilting Association. Officially, National Quilting Day is the third Saturday in March, which would be today. Unofficially, the celebration has expanded to the entire month.
I would love to have an entire month to do nothing but quilt, however, now that I am retired, I am busier than ever! I have been busy finishing the quilt below however. It is for my sister's grandson. I especially liked the fact that she came with me to the LQS to pick out the fabrics. I think she did a nice job. It was supposed to have a different binding on it but when I showed her the quilt after the quilting was finished (another fabulous job by Karen Thompson) she thought yellow would look better. I agreed, however, I did not have enough of the yellow fabric shown in the middle star so an extensive search began. I didn't find the exact match, but I found one that really complements the other colors. Below are pictures of the front and back of the quilt along with a close up of the beautiful quilting. This quilt be will on its way to Colorado in 10 days and hand delivered by my sister to her very sweet grandson!
For the rest of National Quilting Day, (the Hubs made a wonderful blueberry pancake and sausage breakfast and has corned beef and cabbage on the stove for dinner, so no cooking for me today), I am digesting the contents of the magazines displayed below. Hopefully I will find a new tip or technique to try or a pattern to add to my ever growing project list!
Now, one of my next projects will be to make a small wallhanging to cover the electrical box shown in the picture below. This is in our lower floor family room of our new mountain house. We need to be able to access this box once when we arrive and just before we leave so we can't just cover it up. I have solved the access problem by purchasing a very decorative swing arm curtain rod which will hold the wallhanging very nicely. So it can just be swung (is that even a word?) out of the way when needed. Now I just need to figure out what to make! Stay tuned!
