Originally Posted by dunster

Here's another picture, if that is the quilt you're interested in: http://www.milwaukiecenterquiltshow....geschoice.html

If this is the quilt, then why not create your own design? Use red, white, and blue in various older block designs, or find another color combination that also reflects the period. Find your own sayings for the embroidery, and design the quilt in a way that's uniquely your own. Putting together blocks and embroidered saying is not unique to this quilt, and was done by many quilters during the 1976 bicentennial. Everyone in your group can create a unique quilt. Or...just to make it more fun, you can have a block swap. Each of you can pick a few blocks and make enough for the whole group. Then you can put them together in your own distinct patterns. I think this would be more fun than copying a pattern in a book, and you would all have unique and personalized quilts.