Bear Paws

This one took awhile, between vacations and sewing machine troubles, but it’s finally finished and gifted. Hooray!

I bought the kit in August 2023 while on vacation in Alaska (great souvenir, eh?) and started working on it in March, struggling a bit with the actual bear paw blocks (here and here). It went to the longarmer (here) and then sat, neatly folded, waiting (and waiting) until I again had a sewing machine capable of attaching the binding. (Still loving Princess Kokopuff!)

The backing looks like flannel but is ”just” plain old quilting cotton. I couldn’t resist that color plaid - it was too perfect to go with the bears. Hope my BIL gets lots of use out of this… as soon as it cools off. Of course we gave it to him on the hottest day of the summer (so far) when it’s 104° out. Think cool thoughts, Rich!