Airplane Quilt Completely Finished!!! Yay!!!
#22
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I love your quilt. I've always wanted to make one sorta like it, because there are so many pilots in our family. You've put so MANY things into it - fields, and flying geese, and tetrahedrons, and sky, and propellers, and flags, and the spectacular Mariner's Compass, and airplanes of course! I'm sure I missed a few symbols. Love it, love it, love it :thumbup: :thumbup:
#24
Originally Posted by suzic46
That's awesome! My dad would love your quilt. He was a pilot in WWII and a private pilot as a profession. It would be so fun to make him one, it looks difficult, was it?
I did have to put it on a design board to figure out the correct color placement. And since basically so many blocks are different, there was no assembly-line action, it was pretty much just piece each block one at a time.
After that, well, I hand-quilted it. And that is just as slow as it sounds, but not harder than any other.
#25
Originally Posted by Eddie
Now THAT is a really cool quilt. I'd have loved to have had that as a little boy! :)
#26
Originally Posted by littlehud
Great quilt. I love the colors and the planes are awesome. Did you do the pattern yourself. I really like it.
http://www.colfaxcloth.com/planes.php
I made mine using scrappy cloth instead of solid colors as in the picture, and I made a few variations to get the correct placement of everything.
Thanks to all for your kind words.
#27
Originally Posted by alaskasunshine
Amazing! Did you hand quilt it? What a great work of art! I just love the close up of our American flag!
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