First Finish of 2013

Finished stitching the binding last evening. Making the label and scrapbook page today. Registered it for 2013 QuiltFest. The pattern is by Dawn Heese of Linen Closet Designs. I bought the kit at Quilter's General Store in Rockford Oct. 2011. Substituted some of the fabric from my stash. Quilted diagonal lines echoing each side of the ditch with walking foot, and free motioned a flower stencil in the center of each block. The original pattern's name is "Beasley". I named my quilt "Mother's Gift" after a favorite song of that title by Shawna Carol - also the traditional block pattern Grecian Cross was in a quilt on my parents bed as I was growing up. I'm guessing the quilt was a gift to my mother at her marriage.