A Patriotic Star

I was able to get the pattern for this little quilt when my mom and I went to Indiana last year.  I took it to add to my things to purchase and my mom said something like, 'I want that pattern too,' and I said, 'I'll just make you one.'  I'm not sure she remembers this conversation but it helped me decide to make this for her this year.
First I had to find the right fabrics and I went to my fourth of July stash first.  I found two fabrics that would work but wasn't sure I had enough of one of them.  Here is a picture of the scraps I used.  So I started cutting and hoped for the best.  Thankfully it was enough.

This is a log cabin star quilt so I laid out my log cabin pieces for easy assembly.  I got all of the tans, the red and the lightest blue at the quilt store.  This was the last quilt project that I went shopping for this year. 

Here is one of the completed log cabins.  I made twelve.

Here is the basic quilt top without borders.  I really love it. 

And here it is completed with borders and quilting.  I was on my last legs (figuratively) in my pregnancy by the time I was quilting this little guy.  I spent about ten minutes a day once a week which was all I could manage and I was only about 20 weeks at the time.  Still, I think it turned out great and can't wait to make one for myself.