I Love America

I fell in love with this pattern when I first saw in at http://www.mccallsquilting.com/content_downloads/i_love_america_pp101_patternpdf.pdf

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Sunny supervising the assembly process.
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So, what is next? Applique. I Love America, from McCall's Quilting caught my eye and away I went.
[img src=http://hobbystash.com/wp-content/flagallery/i-love-america/thumbs/thumbs_img_0539.jpg]10I Love America - Completed Mar 2006
And yes, I made every mistake you can make in that arena as well.
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An interesting choice of colors to be sure
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Some of my quilting detail...I traced heart patterns onto the fabric
[img src=http://hobbystash.com/wp-content/flagallery/i-love-america/thumbs/thumbs_img_0544.jpg]20I Love America - Completed Mar 2006
Lots of stipple quilting on this one...helped the hearts pop out