Embroidery Contest 2009

"Hooray, I finished on time! I call my quilt "God Bless America". The quilt is 95"W x 100" L. The 50 states plus Washington DC made the quilt uneven, so I added 5 more squares, using your rose patterns plus the name square. I hand quilted the backgrounds with white thread in an echo design and the light green sashing was hand-quilted with dark green thread in a scalloped design. I had to machine quilt the outside border as I was running out of time. I made the binding using the same fabric as the sashing and hand sewed that on for a finished look. I added the names of the flowers to each state square since your design didn't include that. I embroidered the flowers using a Viking Husqvarna Designer 1 and finished with my new Husqvarna Diamond sewing machine."

The designs used are State Flower Set, Garden Flower Series: Rose, Queen Victoria Rose, Florentine Rose.