A quick gift idea.

Here is a scarf I made today from some fabric I have on hand and am using for a series of quilts for wounded Veterans. I power pieced the cut strips into the needed combinations for a 9 patch pattern and then assembled the whole thing using some Harriet Hargrave 100% wool batting cutoffs that I have left over from some previously completed quilts. I was able to finish this scarf in one day, so It is an idea for those gift needs that suddenly can come up for people who live in the colder parts of the country and would benefit from such a gift. The wool batting makes it very warm and the cotton exterior shell makes it comfortable to use next to your neck. It is easily washable in the washing machine and you can put it in a low heat dryer and it comes out as good as new. I made one for myself a couple of months ago, and it has supplanted the Tartan Wool scarf I picked up in Scotland a few years ago.

Here you go:

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John

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John
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Very nice, John. Although I 'confess', I thought it might serve nicely as a priestly stole:

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BEI Design

I had the same immediate reaction to it. I think the way it is displayed for the picture makes it look even more stole like than it really is.

--Betsy

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Betsy

Yeah but!! John comes upp with great ideas no matter how he poses them.I have a couple of DGS who would kill for that scarf. John

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Juno B

It is the Altar Boy in me, that caused it to manifest itself. You have found me out. John

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John

The reason I set it up to display that way, is to highlight, the direction of the stars in the center piece of each block. If I had just set the blocks in one continuos direction with the points of the stars facing up, when they curved around the neck they would have headed downward. Let's face it, for something of such a potentially "patriotic theme" nature, that would never do. The points of the stars should always be pointing upward. or so I was thinking. I had to reverse the direction at the center back of the neck, where it would not be noticeable, to accomplish this feet of legerdemain, and showcase it in the manner I did. There it is. Not some secret, Apostolic, Jesuit theme, just an appreciation of the esthetics of star placement. Even though all that good Parochial School Education, and an Aunt who was a Mother Superior, and an Uncle, who was a Jesuit Classics Scholar, might have had "some" influence, I try to not let that be an overriding force, in my design theory. John John

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John

Ah HA!!! I knew there was method to your madness. I applaud your choice to keep the starts running the correct direction on each side, bravo!

Beverly

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BEI Design

"stars"

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BEI Design

Just saw your scarf WOW mirjam

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mirjam

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