Happy almost 4th of July

This is 

Flags of the American Revolution

a 76" x 76" 12 Month BOM

that is our Deal of the Week

this week.

We thought it seemed timely.  

The pattern not only has drawings of

all of the blocks but lots of information on each flag.

My husband Pep found the blocks when 

he was on the internet looking for a

Gadsden Flag and thought they looked 

like something I might want in a quilt.

He was right!

Our book this month is Oceans Aweigh,

dedicated to my late father-in-law

Byron Patek who commanded a mine

sweeper in the Pacific during WWII.

96" x 89"

Byron told many a tale of far off lands, Spam 

sitting on a dock in the sun and fights started in

the Officers Club over smuggled Coke.

52 1/4" x 60 7/8"

When I think of ships and sailing and

travel, I think of him.

He was also just about all a person

could ask for in a father-in-law.

We miss him but his legacy lives on.

He has a son and a grandson named Byron Patek -

Byron Henry Maxwell Patek

&

Byron Theodore Quinn Patek.