May Mini and Wildflowers

I'd been saving this flag/bird pattern for quite some time and thought it would be the perfect little quilt for May:)

Only recently did I discover that it is a Cheri Payne design. I pulled the reds from my scrap bin and shortened the flags by one row.
 

The birds are fused and so is the star but it kept coming loose so I did a little hand-stitching along the edge to solve the problem :) I hand-quilted around the birds and star and machine-quilted diagonal lines on the rest. 

The backing is an older Pledge of Allegiance fabric and the finished quilt is 17" x 21".  It was definitely a fun one to make--and quick! Make sure you hop on over to Kyle's blog to see her sweet little quilt :) And a big thank you to Wendy for this fun challenge!

On another note . . .

This past weekend my daughter and I went in search of wild flowers and here's what we saw:

A Painted Trillium . . . 

Trout Lily . . . 

Starflowers . . . 

And my all-time favorite Lady Slipper :)

There was a huge patch on one of the hiking trails.
 

Even a white one which I'd never seen before. 

And it seemed like the heavenly fragrance of lilacs permeated the air everywhere in the Adirondacks :)

Have a great week!

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Copyright 2018, Barbara Schaffer