For the past several months, I've been going back and forth on deciding to do this quilt. The design really appeals to me...but finding all the "right" scraps, plus all those unpieced borders, kept putting me off. Finally, I decided that I had likely collected enough civil war period scraps to make up little kits for each month's steps, still sort of following the original colour scheme. The big sticking point was still those borders! Sew Sisters recently had a great sale, and I got very lucky, and found the just the right fabrics. In the meantime, I pieced "month two" which were the first pieced borders to go around the centre feathered star. So here's my work so far, along with the selected border fabrics -
Soon I'll be sewing the centre feathered star block, which will mean I can put to use some of these border fabrics and see how it all looks!
