So here are quilts that my friend Patty and I are completing. This has been quite an undertaking having never really quilted before and NEVER having made a Double Wedding Ring. It was trial and error as we went along, trying to figure out how curved pieces fit together when you are sewing the opposite way. All said and done we are very proud of ourselves. We still have to bind the edges, but WE DID IT!!!!
A little history about the quilt, because all quilts should tell a story. This is a quilt representing 12 years of our Girl Scout Troop. We started as Brownies in September of 1994 and graduated in May 2006. Of the eleven girls that Bridged to Adult Girl Scouts (graduated from the girl program) three were there from the very first meeting. During our tenure we had girls come and go due to relocation or sports, etc.. but to have eleven Senior Girl Scouts in our troop is a testament to the program. We camped and had fun, traveled to Savannah, GA for our pilgrimage to the birthplace of Girl Scouts and Bridged from Junior Girl Scouts to Cadette Girl Scouts at the birthplace of the founder of Girl Scouts, Juliette Gordon-Lowe. We had all eleven girls complete their Silver Award and seven girls earn their Gold Award, the highest award in the Girl Scout program. We traveled to Europe completely paid for with funds earned entirely by the troop, and Bridged from Senior Girl Scouts to Adult Girl Scouts at Pax Lodge in London England where the Scouting program began with Lord Bayden Powell and his wife starting Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. It was an exciting adventure with many memories. The quilt is comprised of 16 circles or rings. Inside eleven of the rings is a piece of work that each girl in the troop created, representing something about themselves, their name and birth date. The girls that completed their Gold Award are circled in yellow (gold) and the remaining rings are grey (silver) representing the Silver Award. The inner connecting points of each circle are green representing the well known Girl Scout Junior uniform. The back of the quilt is brown representing the equally well known Brownie Girl Scout uniform. My quilt binding will be in dark blue representing the not so well known Senior Girl Scout uniform. And lastly, there is light blue mixed in my backing representing the Cadette Girl Scout uniform. Our troop was never a Daisy Troop so I did not represent the Daisy uniform, however some of our girls were in a Daisy Troop before they came to our troop and may choose to include that in their quilt as each girl was given a set of everything that they need to create their own quilt top. I am very proud of this troop of girls! We have college graduates, some with Bachelors Degrees some with Masters Degrees. We have a Peace Corps Volunteer serving in the Ukraine and three Girl Scout grand babies, one born just a week ago. We have celebrated weddings and continue to celebrate great accomplishments. I am so grate full to have been a part of the lives of each of these young ladies.
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