The Family Reunion Quilt that I Kept for Myself

A couple of years ago we hosted Roscoe's Pa's national family reunion.  We had folks attend who came from California and Arizona across the US to New York.  It was a lot of fun and a lot of work!  In past years, some of the hosts had a raffle of interesting things for a fun activity that also raised a little money to help defray the cost of the event.  Often there was a quilt in the raffle.  I actually won a beautifully made hand quilted log cabin quilt at one of the previous reunions and I posted about it here.

I decided my reunion raffle quilt should have the Ohio Star as part of the design since the reunion would be in Ohio.  I also decided I would use Thimbleberries fabric as I always wanted to try a quilt with this traditional fabric.  I really admired these fabrics!

I began working on the quilt and I loved it.  I became very attached to it, actually...even after being totally overwhelmed about pushing a queen-sized quilt through that little space in my sewing machine. Let's just say I learned a lot about what not to do.  As time passed, I showed the quilt-in-progress to a few relatives, and it didn't get much love.  These family members gravitated to a flannel raggy quilt I had made for our living room and commented on it (pictured below) with much more enthusiasm than the reunion quilt I had spent hours on. 

SO...I made a homespun raggy quilt for the reunion with red, blue, and green country colors that seemed to be a hit with the family. (I forgot to take a picture of it.)  And I happily kept my Ohio Star/Nine Patch quilt.

P.S.  I tend to overbuy fabric when I am working on a project.  I had plenty of fabric leftover for this: