Time To Begin . . .

Photo courtesy of Google Images

Quiltdivajulie here ~

For many years, 

we lived in Elkhart, Indiana,

near the Amish communities of 

Shipshewana, Middlebury, and Nappanee.

Driving from point A to point B almost always involved

passing by neatly tended Amish farms 

and/or Amish families walking or traveling in their buggies.

Photo courtesy of Google Images

While most people think of darker-colored adult Amish clothing,

we were accustomed to the brighter colors 

many Amish children wore.

Those are the colors I went looking for in my stash.

These are the fabrics that I have pulled.

I spent hours (and hours!) trying to decide 

which quilt I wanted to single out as my inspiration.

You can't see all the sticky notes ~ I cropped off that edge.

(there are a LOT of them)

In the end, I have settled on this quilt.

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I am also participating in Brenda's String Thing Along,

and my liberated version of the Roman Stripe quilt above

will absolutely feature LOTS of strings.

I'll be posting here and there as well as on my own blog.

(linking back and forth as best I can)

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Thanks, Tonya for this challenge!!

I am SO ready to begin!

Quiltdivajulie