This year I remembered to put up my Maple Leaf quilt in time for July 1.
The label tells me I made this wall-hanging in 2003. It was an entry for a challenge at one of my favourite places – Katja’s Quilt Shoppe. We were to make a quilt representing Canada and use the fabric printed with the Canadian flag. Curiously, this “Canadian” fabric was red, white and blue! The quilting is words from “O Canada”.
I sent a quilt to a special person who is going through some difficult times. This is a variation of the Delectable Mountains quilt pattern, made from directions on Bonnie Hunter’s Quiltville blog – look under the tab for free patterns. You can check out her blog here.
The quilt started as a collection of coordinating fabric squares. I teamed them up with solid white to show off the colours. The quilting is a panto pattern called Lush Leaves.
(The quilt DOES have borders all the way around. I’m annoyed that I sent off the quilt without first making sure I had a proper picture of it.)
