Earning Stripes

I have to put this Stars and Stripes quilt on hold till next month.

I've been desperately clinging to a quilting budget and April's allotment has run out so I have to wait till May to finish this one off.

It's so hard to wait though.  Once the red stripes were added on and the blocks ironed back out I was so pleased with it that now I'm aggravated that I can't just go and buy the rest of the fabric today. There's still backing to purchase and the top still needs a blue banner across it and then...then I can baste this project, quilt it a bit and bind it all up.

So close to being done and being able to give it away!