Happy New Year

Today I finished the applique on the Indiana Bulls Eye quilt. As I wrote before, I decided to go Indiana all the way with the state flower (peony) and the state bird (cardinal) incorporated into the border. One of the birds is female, on the lower side in the picture above, and the rest are the familiar cardinal color. Some of this is marked for quilting but the outside white part is not marked yet. Oddly enough, most of the antique quilts using this pattern are the bright colors shown here. I didn't duplicate any of them but I did use them to pick colors for the whole project.

The quilt top is 83 inches square. Now I will end one year finishing the marking on the outside border and begin the new year by quilting this project.  Please let me know what you think. Happy New Year everyone.