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Made from Mom's stash for my brother and his wife for anniversary in November 2014. Uses 42 10" color squares and 42 10" solid squares. Quite easy but time consuming. Don't stretch squares when pressing. disappearing pinwheel # 4 pattern

I watched the MSQC Double Slice tutorial and decided I had to try it. One thing that Jenny didn't warn me about was making sure that I sewed on the same side of each set, lol. Some of my pieces are going in the wrong direction. This is MY quilt, it is on my bed and it makes me smile every time I see it. My husband also really likes the way it looks in our room.

The fabric I had for the back wasn't large enough so I took another piece and created the Double Slice pattern on the back but put the border fabric as a strip down the middle.

It took 2nd Place at the 2014 Eastern New Mexico State Fair.

This is the first quilt that I ever made. My Mom and Grandmother had done quilting before I was born and I always found myself intrigued by quilting. I was working at a library in Iowa at the time and a local quilt shop did some programs on making quilts at my library. They brought some fabric samples, including a Harvest Moon by Kansas Troubles layer cake. I fell in love with the fabric and decided I needed a new hobby. I found the Mister Sandman pattern in the book "Piece of Pie" by Pie Plate Patterns. I thought the pattern and fabric were a great match. I picked up a sewing machine and started chugging away. I made a good number of mistakes, but I learned so much. I finally finished the quilt top after I moved to Maine. I had a local person machine quilt it for me (which I kinda regret not doing it all myself). I'm so pleased with the project and have already started more quilts.

I wanted to create a quilt for our grandson (Patrick) which would become his personal heirloom! A couple of years ago I just happened to watch the video by Missouri Star Quilt Company which showed a quilt that is composed of envelope blocks called "You've Got Mail". The fabric chosen for this quilt was a line by Tim Holtz called Eclectic Elements. The dictionary defines eclectic as "selecting what seems best from various styles, doctrines, ideas, methods, etc. or composed of elements drawn from a variety of sources, styles, etc.". This immediately painted a picture of Patrick and it's what the fabrics represent! Since he is a member of the Generation Y, web savvy, and growing up with email correspondence, as well as a history buff, I felt like this quilt idea was a blend of the old and new. The backing fabric was decided when I stumbled across the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln. His amazing interest in history and reinactments made this the perfect backing choice. So with the procurement of fabrics, the quilting process began with many artistic decisions to be made along the way. I used a varied neutral layer cake for the background rather than white and I added a cursive script inner border and cornerstones. The label was an embroidered envelope with the "To & From" names/addresses as well as an eagle stamp, postmark and cancelled stamp with his graduation date. Inside the label envelope was a letter from us with congratulatory remarks of his achievement at The George Washington University and also explaining the meaning of quilt worthy. He loved it! Thank you MSQC!!!