The area up Hwy 93 twd Cranbrook or Fernie

I'll ask a friend a bit closer to the area if there is anything fun going on like their human dog sled races. :)

Now THAT sounds like fun... AND very very interesting. Going to have to look that one up!

Thank you

And here's mine, just finished it this morning. It started out with the same panel that BuzzinBubble used. This quilt was a requested for a WW II Vet who will be celebrating his 90th birthday next week.

Wow, that quilt sure is a beauty, seasaw!

Here is my Patriotic quilt. It was made for my husband's family reunion. It has all the names of his mother's family that served or is serving in the military. They raffled it off and made over $600. I also made one for my church with members names on it and donated it to our youth group to raffle off with the proceeds going towards their summer trip to Ft. Caswell, NC. The eagle is from a panel and the eagle, stars and wavy stripes were machine appliqued on. All of the names we done by machine embroidery. http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/q...IMG_8635-1.jpg
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Those quilts are lovely.

Blue Button, will you be joining us in this challenge and starting a new project?

Hello everyone, Happy St. George's Day, Patron Saint of England, and the day I start work on the first panel of the Diamond Jubilee quilt - it will be a red rose to represent England. Wish me luck - I hope it doesn't turn out more complicated than I hoped.

The quilts posted here so far are fabulous. Very American.

My American Legion wants to do a Quilts of Valor day. I will post as we get going on this. I LOVE your fabrics for your quilt>

Canada Quilt for Breast Cancer Research
 

A friend survived Breast Cancer and started a group called Wild Pink Yonder (www.WPY.com) to incorporate her love of horses and desire to raise money for research in Alberta, Canada. I made this quilt for the auction held at the end of the 21 day horse ride through beautiful Alberta:

Sounds wonderful Muv. Any photos of the design or fabric yet?

I managed to get two more rows done of my cross-stitch maple leaf centre for my quilt. Too much else going on right now so I'm glad I issued the challenge to start and, hopefully, finish a new project or I wouldn't be getting anything done on it.

Beautiful quilt pasovasz. I love the texture of your quilting. The quilting world certainly does a lot for charity and that is great. Will you be doing another one as part of this challenge?

Remember, the challenge is to start a NEW patriotic project. If you are already partway through one, that is great, too. We encourage you to finish it with us. And, don't forget, patriotism is a worldwide trait. Let's see more countries repesented.

Come one, come all. Join in the fun and tell us a little about your country or the reason behind your choice of project and design.

Home from retreat, decided on a small project for the table in our Roadtrek. Need to unpack my things & will post a picture of the basic fabrics.

I'm in! I have a flag wallhanging I started awhile back that I don't like. It's too big & kind of blah. I've held onto it for several years because I just wasn't sure what to do with it. I have decided to cut it up & put it back together bargello style to look like a waving flag. I'll post it when I'm done! Thanks for the motivation!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]329993[/ATTACH]Okay, here's the fabric I've chosen. I'm 3rd generation Canadian....but DH was born in Germany so will slip in "his" colours too :D

Maggiemay - so glad we could assist in the inspritation department. I can't wait to see what you come up with. It sounds fabulous.

thimblebug - I love your fabrics and think it is great that you will incorporate your husband's country of origin colours. Canada is, after all, a very multinational country.

QuiltE - one day you may just find a few small pieces of Canada flag fabric coming your way. But, not likely in time for this challenge.

Keep those new projects, or reworked projects, or UFO's coming. :)

I found that fabric at a LQS http://www.wineberryfabrics.com/wf/home.html I originally bought it to make potholders to take to Germany!

So, thimblebug6000, did you have fun at the retreat? Learn anything new?

Poor QuiltE, Ontario gets all the international fabrics while BC gets the Canadian ones. :)

I will have to pass on this one. Too many things on my plate right now. Just wanted to share my quilt. I'm looking forward to seeing all the nice quilts.

Hi works4me: I did have a great retreat, here is the picture of my batik top so far, I need to see if it fits the bed right down to the floor on the sides then I will decide the next step.[ATTACH=CONFIG]330029[/ATTACH]

Probably shouldn't have posted this picture to this thread...but... it's the answer to your question :D

That is beautiful thimblebug600.

I guess, if I want to try to find more Canada flag fabric, I'll have to go into a few stores, huh? I'm trying to be good and stay away from temptation.

4 more cross stitch rows done last night. I have an eye appointment today and thought I might take it to work on while in the waiting room but then figured I might get what-for so I'm taking a book instead. :)

Not much to show yet, but here are all the colours I will be using, and today I started on the rose's leaves. Keep cheering me on, please, ladies!

Well, Muv, you have a cheering section here. I,too, love the richness of the colours. It looks like the work will be quite intricate and I applaud you. Great start.

Anyone else have some colours or progress to show?

I would like to join this challenge... here are some pics of my fabric choices...The pattern I would like to say I have no clue..but actually I do have the first clue to the Bittersweet mystery with AQS I am participating in. It is suppose to be a scrappy...Im doing a controlled scrappy though. Can you see how Im trying to make lil flags in my four patches..lol :)

That looks great Jenniky. Way to combine two threads on the forum into one! :) I like your large piece of fabric. It is a nice design and, yes, I do see the flag element to the 4 patches.

Good to have you with us.

Love the colours in your Rose fabrics selection Muv ; the 4 patches idea for a patriotic "flag" is such a neat idea Jenniky. So I took a little time this afternoon and started my center flag, it's 3 x 7 and the whole table topper will be 17 x 14 (approx)[ATTACH=CONFIG]330533[/ATTACH]

I love that thimblebug6000. The striped red fabric makes it look like the flag is waving, as do the lines in the white fabric. Good start. You are way ahead of me and my centre. I have 4 rows of cross stitch done plus the stem of the maple leaf.

Lots of work done on the rose today - should have the block finished tomorrow!

Count me in too. I have several patriotic "Pigs" (projects in grocery sacks) and this inspires me to get one or more of them done by July 1st. Should be fun!

Just noticed that my member picture is a Patriotic quilt sampler that I did a couple of years ago. However, I am going to custom quilt it on my longarm and so it is in my pile of quilt tops to be quilted and not finished yet.

Love all the ideas that you all have that I have now seen as I have gone back to the beginning of this challenge to read all the posts and see the pics. Going to be fun to see all these quilts and projects in progress as we go along. Need to get in my quilt studio and pick out what quilt I want to do and get fabrics and pattern posted on here.