Here, at long last, is the finished "historic panel" quilt, from the challenge Lori at Humble Quilts issued back in 2022! You can see my first post about this challenge here.
There was "help" while completing the free-motion quilting earlier this month.
The center panel is hand quilted, the remainder a mix of serpentine stitching in the narrower borders, and some free motion in the wider border areas.
Sad to say my efforts at free motion have left me with a severe case of thumb/wrist joint stress, and I'm afraid that my days of free-motion quilting are pretty much over. It has now been more than a week since completing this and the pain has not yet subsided. No broken bones, just a case of stressed joints that will take a (long) while to heal.
Though I'm generally happy with the way this quilt turned out, when it was washed in cold water (with color catchers) there was still
one star background fabric that gladly accepted the bit of red dye that released in the wash water, so now there are 3 or 4 stars with faint pink backgrounds rather than the cream/light beige of the other blocks. You'll likely be able to spot the rogue blocks in some of the photos (like the one directly above).
A bit of the backing fabric:
We will keep the quilt here for the next year bicentennial plus 50 celebrations, and at some time in the future will give it to our second grandson, who is in the National Guard and hopes to be accepted for flight training school to become a helicopter pilot after completing his degree.
This December has until today been colder than normal for our area with snow nearly every day. Today we awoke to 37 degrees and sunny, with a forecast high of mid-40s. Hopefully some (or all) of the accumulated snow will melt without any major flooding. There is more rain in the forecast for later this week, and Christmas could quite possibly be green in these parts.
Wishing all of you the blessings of peace and joy during this holiday season. Til next year ...
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