A Quilted St. Patrick's Day Decoration

   I'm calling these St. Patrick's Day Stars.  I made these small wall hangings in green, orange and white for me and DD.  We love to decorate a little bit for the holidays and I like to make her little things to put around her house with the holiday color.

    I used a free paper piecing star pattern from the Carol Doak website.  The link is here.  It's the star pattern that is called Introduction to Paper Piecing and it's about half way down the page.  I've used this free pattern before I love it.  With the borders and binding they measure appoximately 13" x 13" square.  I gathered my fabrics for this project right after Christmas.

    These were fun to make and DD loves it.

Remembering Mom On St. Patrick's Day

        I'm counting down to St. Patrick's Day.  This is just one of the days of the year that I remember my Mom.  My mother was 100% Irish and very proud of her Celtic heritage.  One of her favorite days of the year was St. Patrick's Day (March 17th).  I like to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in honor of Mom.  I don't drink green beer (why ruin a perfectly good refreshment with food coloring), but I do wear green and listen to music by the Chieftans.

This is one of my favorite Irish blessings:

May those that love us, love us.

And those that don’t love us,

May God turn their hearts.

And if he doesn’t turn their hearts,

May he turn their ankles,

So we will know them by their limping.