My friend, Scherry, asked me if I would make a quilt for her to give to her friend, Chris. Wouldn't do that for just anyone, but Scherry is a good friend! She had seen this site that had national park quilt squares and thought that they would make a good quilt for Chris who is a big muckity-muck in the park service. She has been a park ranger at the Everglades, Zion and Rocky Mountain before advancing to the massive bureaucracy that is our federal government! She will be moving to DC this summer. Shortly after receiving the blocks Scherry had picked out, I came across a quilt in a magazine called Bird's Eye View that framed parts of a panel and set them in a checkerboard quilt with finished 1 1/2 inch squares! Sounded like a good idea! Well, it was a not the easiest thing I've done to make everything fit! There are a few places where it didn't fit together well but over all I am pleased with it. Still having some issues with tension with my sweet sixteen. Had to pick some quilting out, but overall the diagonal quilting worked. For the back, I used a batik that had been in my stash for a while.
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