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Mom's Fall Flower Quilt

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 Last Christmas gift finish!! My parents added a garage and sunroom onto their house this past fall. I decided with the new wall space mom needed a new quilt! I started with this fun Adel in Autumn panel by Sandy Gervais and coordinating 10 inch squares. I haven't done much with panels but this was so pretty I decided to give it a go. A Google search found this quilt with a panel and I decided to use it as my inspiration.  I used my Lori Holt farm girl vintage book to find the right block for the first pieced border. As I made the second pieced border with the flying geese I realized I didn't have enough brown. Oops! Browns are tricky to match, in my opinion, so I opted for a few rectangles in the coordinating prints. My original thought was wall quilt but I wanted her to have the ability to use it as a throw as well. It was actually a bit tricky not making it too big! Haha! My little helper wanted in on a picture of Nana's quilt. I don't remember its dimensions but it