2017-07-01

050 ~ Happy 150th Birthday Canada!

 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......

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