Gemma's Bug Quilt

A few years ago, before my youngest granddaughter

Gemma was born I made quilts for Kaitlyn and McKenna

using a bug jelly roll I had picked up at Tuesday Mornings.

Along came Gemma and I just knew I had to make her a bug quilt too with the same material - hmmm I couldn't find that jelly roll anywhere on the Internet.

So I went to the Quilting Board and asked the members there, if

anyone had this jelly roll in their stash.

Yippee a lady from Virginia answered my plead and we agreed to swap out fabrics

She was working on a charm quilt in green and asked that I send her

2.5 inch WOF green strips in exchange for the bug jelly roll.

It was a perfect answer to my quest for the bug jelly roll, I was surprised

at just how many greens I had in my stash and was able to send her 

44 different green strips and I added some other

unusual greens that were not exactly WOF.

I was so happy to be able to give my name sake - Gemma Elizabeth

a quilt with bugs along the same lines as her sisters.

Gemma's quilt was made from a sale pattern called Square Root 

from Connecting Threads and has applique on it.  I swear

the applique took as much time as the whole quilt did.

I am not a fan of applique that is for sure.

This is about as close to modern quilting as I get for now :)