New Project & Another Older Quilt

I'm kinda getting out of order here but this is the next project I think I'll start next week. Won't be much sewing time because I leave Tuesday for Paducah. This is going to be a log cabin star quilt and it's maybe going to be entered in the Do You EQ? Contest. Here's an older quilt. This is from Eleanor Burn's Delectable Mountain book. I started this quilt one evening at home. Had to make a sample for a class I was teaching. Began pulling from the stash and the only background fabric that was big enough was a bolt of extra wide backing fabric so that's what I used for the background. It worked! Probably wouldn't have used these colors if I was buying new fabric but it's what I had so I used them. This was one of the first quilts I ever did with lots and lots of small meander and feathers and it was mostly something for practice. I put it on thinking I could do it all in a day or two (had customer quilts lined up to get done). Well, it took over a week and I was working day and night. I think the quilt was nearly 100 x 100. I was so pleased with it when I finished it that I decided to enter it in A Quilter's Gathering at Nashua, NH and it won a ribbon. It was around my dad's birthday and he mentioned that it would make a nice birthday present so that's what it ended up being - a birthday gift for my dad.