Jack wanted me to entitle this post, "Sailing into Ellis Island," but that was a little too punny for me. However, it does describe the picture. This is the quilt I'm working on for Ellis, Jeannette's little bitty baby, who will like boats whether he wants to or not. =) Chris, Ellis's dad, is really into all things nautical, so I was inspired to make a quilt with a nautical theme, and using the signal flags seemed a bit more interesting than a boat pattern.



The top left starts with the letter "A," and the alphabet continues in each row from left to right until the first flag on the last row, which is "Z." After that, I had to fill in four more flags to make a nice rectangle (because 26 is a rather ugly number with which to make a rectangle), so I went with "Diver down," "Hurricane," "Dinner," and "Gale," in that order. This is going to be one learned child for many reasons, not the least of which is the brilliance of his parents, so hopefully this quilt will add to that. I'll be finished piecing it after I put a three-inch light blue border around all of these blocks, and I'm going to back and bind it with the dark blue fabric. I get to start quilting as soon as I sew the border on, but I have no idea when the quilting process will be finished! Hopefully I'll finish before the kid is out of diapers. =)

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• posted by erica 7/29/2005 06:46:00 PM
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