My birthday is August 21st. Last year, myself and 2 friends drove south of Raleigh to a little town called Selma that has gone from a sleepy farming town to an antique mecca. The quilt shop there is bette than what we have in Raleigh, much friendlier people. We spent the day buying over $200.00 of fabric for a quilt for our church to commmemorate the 25th year anniversary of its establishment as a parish. We didn't have the slightest idea of what we were doing, but the lady at the shop spent close to 3 hours helping us pick out fabric. I'll post pictures soon, because we are in the final stages of assembling it. We will have someone else machine quilt it and it will hang in the parish hall.
The center block is around 42 x 36 and it is surrounded by smaller blocks pertaining to the church, like St Francis of Assisi and St Claire, the prayer of St FRancis, etc. Teh cente block depicts the church building.