Bill always called me the human loom because I was always knitting something different every time he saw me. In Needham, I continued to knit but also started to quilt. After Bill passed away, I helped mom go through his clothes and discovered a bunch of blue flannel pajama bottoms and thought they would make a great quilt to remember him by. He was obsessed with flying and airplanes so I backed the quilt with some airplane fabric that I found at the Franklin Mill Store in Franklin, Massachusetts. I can't believe that I remember that! (Confession, I remembered the location of the shop, but had to look up its name.)
I created a plane template out of a manila folder and traced it with quilter's chalk in the non nine-patch squares. I quilted each plane separately and back stitched the heck out of each starting and stopping point - hoping that it would hold through multiple washings. Time will tell.
Here's the plane fabric that I used for the backing. Also, I used my favorite technique of pieced binding. I love the "scrappiness" of it.
PS The interface on blogger has not changed one bit in my three-year absence, which is both a blessing and very disappointing.
