October 2021,, Full size, Fifty States with state flowers embroidered

I finally finished this quilt.  It was a lot of work and time.  An earlier post describes the origin of this quilt and shows the stack of blocks ready  to be joined.,  I didn't have Laura's plan for arranging these blocks, she might have planned to put them on "point" with a turquoise block between.  I decided to make them straight, alphabetically, seven across and seven up/down.  But that left one, Wyoming" all alone on the bottom row,  Had to pull a couple blocks apart and rearrange them like this, it worked out

 well.  One picture, here, shows the back with a thin strip of turquoise sashing that joins the blocks.  Vere has said several times he really likes this quilt and Sonya's eyes lit up when she saw it.  So eventually it will go to Sonya.  I spent many wonderful, restful hours sitting out on my deck doing the hand embroidery.  In the summer I was out there early in the morning, in the shade.  As it got colder I sat out there in 55 degree weather, in the sun, watching the blue sky and the green around me.  Did I say this quilt took a lot of time.