Twice As Nice!

My very dear sister, Suzanne, was home this afternoon to receive the second edition of my Sister's Choice quilt. She agreed to hold it up beside the doorway where she had hung up the first one to keep the drafts at bay from her unheated front hall. The Sister's Choice Part I is on the left, and the Sister's Choice Part II is on the right.

Part II has that brilliant chromium yellow which was the only one of it's kind in the swaps that I did to get all the variety in those Civil War 9-patches. We decided that was a good way to tell them apart.

The borders, inner and outer, and the binding fabrics are all identical, but the centers of the two quilts are completely scrappy. The green scrappy wings are all regular quilting fabrics (not Civil War) as are the backgrounds, too. With all those differences, the two quilts still "read" as a matched set!

Both are set 6 blocks by 8 for a total of 48 per quilt, and 96 in all. I thought that I would never be done with putting wings on the 9-patches! February 21st of 2011 was the first picture that I posted of the blocks going together, so it has been just two years in the making of them. It was hard to release them, but my sister did say thank you.

In the morning, I worked some more on those cute little 2" strip-pieced 4-patches for the Churn Dash Cheer quilt. For some reason, I decided to make them all match! Maybe I just have had a bellyfull of scrappiness, LOL!

Grace, from Maine, do you recognize this toasty brown fabric with the red flowers from The Lowell Collection adapted from The New England Quilt Museum by RJR Fashion Fabrics? You should! I believe you sent it in your Christmas package to me?

It just glows against the cream fusions by Robert Hoffman. I had wanted something that would play nicely with a warm red, which will be the sashing for which these are the cornerstones. This is perfect. Thank you again, Grace!