trust quilt complete

Finally, I finished my trust quilt, completing (so far!) my series of Word of the Year Quilts.

Trust was my very first Word of the year in 2011. For this quilt, I English Paper Pieced pluses, representing crosses for me, then appliqued them onto the background fabric. I crosshatch quilted the pluses, then straight line quilted the background, shadow quilting in a few extra crosses (which is hard to see here! Trust me, it's there.)

If you want to read what I was thinking when I chose this word more than five years ago, you can read the post here. Funny, reading this post back again, I realize that even though I have come along way in five years, this is still a conversation I am having with myself (and with God) frequently.

Here is my complete set of Word quilts, which I intend to add to every year going forward...

And links to all of my word of the year posts:
Trust 2011
Gratitude 2012
Strength 2013
Grace 2014
Imagine 2015
Explore 2016

oh, and just for the record, this is my fifth (and final!) finish in the first quarter of the 2016 Finish along! Yay! Will blog more about that soon...