Monday, May 29, 2023

Glory

Here's a Memorial Day quilt in honor of those heroes who gave their lives for our freedom.


This off-center star is made up of parallelograms in red, blue, white and cream small print scraps. 


Starting with an eight pointed star, I fine tuned the layout on my design wall, using color value to emphasize the star shapes. 


Simple straight stitch quilting with a walking foot and white thread was done in four sections, following seam lines. Glory is 50” square.


Accuquilt dies used:
55809 Parallelogram (10” Qube)
55017 Strip 2½”


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