Sail On - A Prayer Quilt

Another three person quilt....

 Ruth found the little sailboats in our Victory Quilt Cupboard at church.  We don't know who made them.  The center block is one Ruth made with a pattern from a past summer quilt shop hop.

She said the little blocks had a lot of problems with the misalignment of some of the little blocks, but she handled them well, and I'm thinking the recipient will find so many other things to look at and enjoy in this quilt that they won't notice anything that's less than perfect.

 The center block was especially fun to quilt since it provided some even newer challenges that I hope I solved well. 

Ruth chose wonderful, refreshing fabrics to accompany the blocks.

 I don't particularly like the waves I quilted, but it's always a learning experience, isn't it?

 The narrow borders weren't encouraging for feathers, so they have a lot of swirlies.

One of the lovely things about this quilt is the backing of bubbles!

I really like this quilt, undoubtedly being influenced by the lack of water here.  New Mexico's most famous lake is Elephant Butte, but we have other good sized lakes as well.  Of course, I also know of a New Mexico lake that is smaller than the pond our neighbor Lester Pfister used for irrigating his hybrid seed corn in dry weather between El Paso and Gridley, Illinois.  We are a state of diversity--and that means a few extremes as well!

I hope you get to enjoy some water this July.

Happy quiltmaking,...