Patriotic Friendship Quilt

So I worked on this quilt for several hours this weekend & I got the top allllll put together. Yay!

The story of this quilt (they all have one, you know) is that I belong to a quilting bee. So once a month, I join eleven ladies & we have a demonstration of a technique, good food, & nice conversations. Last year, we decided to do Friendship Quilts for each other. Each person makes one block for each of the other members & we all make a block for ourself & we each end up with a 12 block quilt of our very own! I chose this block pattern (Bright Hopes) & asked them to pick patriotic prints for their blocks. Each lady embroidered her name onto her block & I edited those out of these photos, so that is what the bright white blobs are. Click on the pics to see the quilt better.

The top half:











Thankfully, I sew better than I draw with the photo paint sprayer thingy. I can't draw worth a dang! Here is the bottom half, including my block:













And here is the whole thing:



















Isn't it pretty? Now to save up enough money to send it off to be quilted - ack! I can't wait to see the finished result, though!