I really have no real count of the works I have in progress, so adding one more really does not matter a whole lot. It is nice to occasionally finish one, so starting this one is going to be a good thing because I have a target date that has already been established. New grand-baby will be here in November. When we were visiting earlier this summer, my DIL and I went shopping and bought the fabric she would like me to use in the quilt I will be making. I have been trying to find the right pattern to use and yesterday I worked on creating my own design in EQ. Of course I didn't create blocks that have never been used before, but I put some existing blocks together and came up with my design. This is the center block... an Ohio Star, and it is 24" square. There will be a white border around this block and then there will be flying geese all around, and another white border. We did not buy fabric for the backing, so that is still another decision I will make once I get to that stage of the project.
My Country Cousins quilt is in its final stage, the hand quilting of the border. The four borders have all been hand appliqued, but the quilt-as-you-go is going to take a bit of time, as I am echoing all of the elements, and that is a slow process. The trick will be when I get to the point of attaching the borders with the QAYG technique that I used to join the twelve blocks of the quilt. I'm not convinced I know just how that will go, but I am confident it will work out fine.
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