I think I was
in grade 2 when Canada had its 100th birthday;
I still have the medallion (we all received in school) with the
logo from that celebration.
Here we
are, 50 years later and I thought it should be fitting to make something
as a
tribute to having lived in this beautiful country for all these years.
For me,
a quilt was the perfect thing to make.
I made this
one with the QAYG method - my go to technique.
The 10 flags represent the 10 provinces Canada
had when I was born,
also the number of kids in my family.
The fabric
for the backing actually found me, and was fitting.
I machine
quilted the blocks with echo quilting around the leaves,
organic straight lines
on the red sides, and did pebbles on the leaves.
I like how it turned out.
The label,
well it needs no explanation.
I do love
our clothes line for displaying quilts (well ok, and for drying clothes)
- we have so much natural greenery in
our back yard.
And about
that medallion I received 50 years ago...
this was the logo for that centennial
celebration......
wouldn't it make a great quilt?? hm......
