Ever Vigilant

Ever Vigilant, originally uploaded by Bob & Barb's World.

Quilt above by Barbara Baume.

A while back I posted a picture of a quilt of my mother's which at the time I called "Eagle Medallion" since I didn't know its correct name. Later I found out that it was called "Ever Vigilant", and that the pattern was by Barbara Baume, and was published in Quilters Newsletter in July 2002, so I went back and added that info to the original post. And apparently Barbara found that entry, and she wrote me a very nice e-mail about it. I love it when people do things like that. (She said, among other things, that the eagle's wings are so short because that was all the fabric she had!) And she sent me the link to her version, which is the one above. Click over and look at my mother's quilt - they are very, very similar. It's interesting to compare.

Blind Man's Fancy

Quilt from December 2002 QNM, originally uploaded by Mellicious.

"Fancy This" made by Linda Cordell (and friends) of Arlington TX.

I was skimming through an old issue of Quilter's Newsletter (Dec 2002, to be exact) and I found this quilt, which I love. The odds that I ever would make it are very, very slim, though. Too many tiny triangles. Hmm, maybe I could come up with something similar but simpler? (I will probably come up with some other idea that's completely different by the time I end up making my pink quilt, in any case.)