All the red and blue fabrics in this interesting block are from Vicki Welsh. I used foundation paper piecing for the four corners which helped keep the points sharp.
I'm going to miss working on this series even the leaves. After a few months, I knew the whole rhythm and allotted the time for the applique, never trying to get the entire block done in a day so I didn't find that job as tedious as I did in the beginning.
Service records for the majority of our WWI veterans were burned in a fire in at the Federal Records storage facility in St. Louis in the 1970's, so precise information on my four great-uncles who served is unfortunately not as easy to come by as for Civil War veterans. Their tombstones list their units, though without much precision. There is information about the Army's organization and where the elements served available at Federal libraries scattered around the country. The University of North Carolina Asheville is supposed to be one of those places where the public can access that information, so that will be a project for me, perhaps before I get the quilt completed. As it is right now, I'm not sure any of the uncles actually shipped out to Europe.
3 comments:
I loved seeing these blocks! You did a beautiful job. Can't wait to see the quilt.
This IS an interesting block, and the whole series has been interesting. Like Alice, I am curious to see how they will all come together as a quilt.
I accidentally deleted this comment before in an unsuccessful attempt to correct a misspelling. 😐
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