Women of Influence

This quilt is one that I recently finished.  It is a block of the month quilt that my local quilt shop did in 2010 from the book,  Women of Influence: 12 Leaders of the Suffrage Movement, by Sarah Maxwell & Dolores Smith.

 Each block represents a different woman from history.  It was a lot of fun to make but obviously took me about a year to complete it. My appliqued blocks need a little more work, but it was fun to do them. They are done using needle turning.  After I finished all the blocks, my husband had some schooling to do so I took the material and finished the top in a motel room.  Not the best idea because this blanket is huge!  It is a large King sized quilt.  I had it machine quilted by a lady named Micah. She did a fabulous job!  Now all I have to do is to decide for sure what to do with the finished project!