The Patriotic Star block twists its way around the outside of the quilt, with the blue point of the block toward the inner blue star border of the quilt.īelow are a few pictures which show how the Log Cabin blocks were added to the quilt center.
In the outside Patriotic Star border, I again used the blue star fabric as spacers and placed them in the middle of that border which draws the eye to the beautiful Eagle in the center of the panel. In the Log Cabin border, I used the Military fabrics to add spacers so everything would fit. I also had to add “spacers” a couple of the borders to fill in the odd size. To do this, I used a wider blue star fabric border on the sides of the quilt, with a narrower border on the top and bottom. The center panel was exceptionally long, so width was needed to square up the quilt a bit. I had to get creative in adding width to the quilt. It was a challenge trying to get blocks to fit due to the unusual size of the panel. The bin pictured below is all that is left of the fabrics after finishing this queen-size quilt (measures 90″ x 103″). He also wanted a military fabric placed in each corner (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine fabrics).
The customer provided a large plastic bin of all the fabrics he wanted used within the quilt to be placed around the center panel of the Eagle. I really enjoyed creating the quilt and it turned out very well.
This past week I finished a quilt for a customer…a very patriotic quilt: Land of the Free, Home of the Brave.
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