Braid Quilt for Hostess ready to go!
 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]350818[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]350820[/ATTACH]This quilt was made for friends who are hosting us for a week. The pattern is Eleanor Burns' Braid and the fabrics are Stonehenge by Northcott. The batting is Quilter's Dream Green Batting. It was long arm quilted locally with stars to go with the eagle fabric which is the lighter beige. These folks live in the Pacific NW and an eagle dips down in the neighborhood lake once in awhile to catch lunch!! We are hoping they like it. Sorry the pictures aren't better. I'll have to learn how to do it with a camera instead of a phone! The "lump" at the top is part of the porch rail! Thanks for checking this out! If it had a name, it would probably be "Homesick," because I'm homesick for the place we lived for 18 years and this has all the colors and reminders of that great area!

I adore your quilt! It's a great way to use braids. Perfect colors! Bravo!

This quilt is stunning! I'll host you here in Louisiana...be forewarned, however, it's a little warm here. Maybe wait till winter to bring the quilt over!

This quilt is beautiful. You done such a great job on this.

Lovely quilt! It will be a wonderful gift! :)

your gift is thoughtful and lovely.

love the braid quilt. it's one i want to try next. :-) beautifully pieced together.

I LOVE this quilt! The colors would work perfectly in my family den. Great job!!

Very pretty!

very pretty quilt!!!!

love the colors - pretty quilt.

Love your quilt

I sure do like this quilt! The colors are great and the design is wonderful. Thanks for including the fabric line that you used because I would love to do a quilt like this. Oh and I see you live in Ocala, FL. Did you move there from the PNW? What a shock to the system that must have been!!! I lived in Ocala for 7 months but could not take the heat. Beautiful horse country though. We lived near Silver Springs.

So beautiful. Love the soft colors.

Beautiful quilt....would you like to come to the Finger Lakes of NY?

Lovely quilt.

Goodness! I'd host you for longer than a week for this beauty. Super job on a beautiful quilt!

It is a very beautiful quilt.

To fleurdelisquilts...I was born in Evergreen, LA!

Nice hostess gift

I love this quilt. Thank you for sharing.

Very, very pretty!

I love the colors you used and the quilt is beautiful.

Beautiful quilt. You picked great fabrics for the pattern.

Thanks for the kind responses! I did not expect this many!! So, it looks like I'm going to Louisiana and the Finger Lakes? :D :D

KLO, we are three miles from Silver Springs and our well water is from that aquifer. We have lived here twice before and only back to take care of my 84 year old Mom. The summers are brutal, but that's when I quilt. We left our son and DIL in Seattle. :( Beautiful horses and rolling green farms here. Hope you like your new area better.

Lovely colors, a perfect hostess gift............

Beautiful quilt and gift!

the colors are great, love the black border around the braids

One of the prettiest braids I have seen.

Beautiful!

So pretty, I love the colors you chose!

Beautiful quilt! We happen to be neighbors. I have not been to Ocala yet, but plan to visit your quilt shops soon.

You'll like the local shops, plus we do have a JoAnne's and Hobby Lobby. They're all on Route 200. Be sure to check out the Trenton, FL quilt shop as well. They have just opened an old fashioned soda fountain!! When you want a different drive, check out the DeLand shop...and there are a couple on the coast near Daytona/Ormond. Can you tell I"m addicted?

I'm sorry you'

I love this quilt! I think Stonehenge fabrics are so beautiful & they are perfect for this pattern! Your friends certainly are lucky to get such a wonderful gift!! I'm sorry you're homesick, tho I understand. I miss living in KS & get really homesick for the flat expanses of landscape.

If you'd like to visit WI & see all the eagles we have here, I'll take a quilt just exactly like this beauty... LOL!

This is a beauty of a quilt - now your friend will be "the hostess with the mostest". Lucky her. I know what you mean about missing the NW - I grew up there and miss it a lot!!

What a wonderful gift for the hostess. I am sure it will be cherished forever! It's beautiful.

It is lovely!

A very nice host gift for your friends and a beautiful job by you. Love the stonehenge fabrics and they all compliment each other. Thanks for sharing
Pat

KLO, we are three miles from Silver Springs and our well water is from that aquifer. We have lived here twice before and only back to take care of my 84 year old Mom. The summers are brutal, but that's when I quilt. We left our son and DIL in Seattle. :( Beautiful horses and rolling green farms here. Hope you like your new area better.[/QUOTE]


We are now in NC and it's been brutal here this summer but that heat in FL is just so much stronger. Since I am originally from the northeast, I guess I just don't handle it very well. (We lived on NE 2nd Street in Ocala.) And I have to get out of the house now and then especially to attend my quilt group meetings.

And darn if we don't have something else in common!!! My middle son lives in Seattle!!!! How's that for a co-incidence?

Very pretty quilt! Lovely colors!