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Coastal Quilters Chapter Banner #10

We now return from our detour to the regularly scheduled blogging about the Chapter Banner…

I needed to add some elements to the design to fill in blank spaces. I also needed to add a block for the outside, so made a command decision and just did a block of fiddlehead fern.

In the center panel of the quilt, I added a moose in the lower left corner (there was a moose on the loose in Warren, which is that general direction, just last week!):

Camden Public Library (and LOVE the way it turned out):

Curtis Island Light (at the entrance to Camden Harbor…this was always planned, as was the library):

And hopefully no one will be too appalled that Thumper has given the quilt her complete blessing:

And here are the flying geese up near the top, flying from the sky in the center panel across the inner border up into the top area:

Some hills that include an area meant to represent the Beech Hill preserve with its blueberry barrens:

Tents for the Rockland Lobster Festival:

And the Herrick camp cottage on Pitcher Pond, where we have our August meetings, eat and share quilts…it is gloriously beautiful there, and are fortunate the Herricks are so generous in sharing with us. It is Maine camp living at its finest (outhouse has a magazine slot, and the pump for the water is indoors at the kitchen sink….you pump the water straight into the sink, and they have a generator for the fridge, so we get ice cream sundaes!). Summer Heaven is a good name for it!

The only thing left to create is the chickadee (top right of the top border), finish the quilting, sew on the tiny “reveal” of the same fabric as the inner border inside the binding, machine sew the binding (thank HEAVENS someone else is doing the hand finishing… I need to get back to my book), do up and print the label on cloth and get it ready for the final helpers, and ditto for the hanging sleeve. I can get this done by our meeting in a week! Deadlines sure help me focus!!!!! Best of all, I am elated by how it is turning out….

4 Responses to “Coastal Quilters Chapter Banner #10”

  1. Anonymous Says:

    You HAVE been busy, Sarah! When do we get a peek at the whole thing?

    jq

  2. Frances Caple Says:

    hank you Sarah, I have really enjoyed my morning catching up on your blog, the third age has many advantages when i was in your age i could not have chosen to spend my morning do whatever I wanted, however I am glad I had your age as I enjoyed it too despite the busy, busy life,

    I am looking forward to seeing your finished quilt,
    best thoughts Frances,

  3. Frances Caple Says:

    my comment should have started Thank you, don’t know what happened to the *T* perhaps someone drunk it!

  4. Feeling Simply Quilty Says:

    Deadlines help me focus as well. That’s why I like to enter things in our State Fair, so I’ll get them done.

    Great banner. I like how you incorporate all the meaningful things in the area into it. It’s an instant connection for people.