Thanks to all of you. I love getting responses on my quilts.
Now, to answer your questions.
I thought this up all by my litttle self. Many of the items are from clipart but a few I drew free hand. These being the cactus, the oil well, and the flame part of the campfire. The Alamo was from a picture in the Texas tourism book. I enlarged it and put as close to San Antonio while outside the stateline. I considered putting it inside but it takes up a lot of room.
The state flag is four separate pieces of fabric that I cut very carefully. I am quite proud of it. It looks just like it is one piece. If you look really closely at the camp fire, you can see "smoke" that I drew on with a grey pencil. I considered putting in some modern things like the Johnson Space Center but I left it old fashioned looking. The outline of the state was drawn from the map I got when I called the 8888Tex number.
I remember when I was first beginning to work on it. I had to have a background fabric that said "Western" to me. I found the horseshoe print and knew that would be the one I would use.
I put the yellow rose in the middle, the cactus where I believe the real ones might be, and the guitar is near Lubbock for the singer Mac Davis.
I feel very stronly about Texas as several of my favorite people were born there. Brent Spiner (Data on Star Trek), Carol Burnett, and DAN RATHER, I have liked him for a long time.
About New York..... My mother was born there, and her father. But the main reason I wanted to do one of this state is because of Richard Schlesinger of the CBS News. He is my FAVORITE news correspondent.
I may someday do one of Massachusetts where I was born. I don't know if I will do all Fifty states but maybe some others might get inspired and think about making some of their states.
And now I have a question. What is the name of the town between the saddle, boot, and hat?
Anne