Green Mt. Boys in Afghanistan by landscapelady

I just wanted to share with you a group of quilts that I am proud of making (tooting my own horn, or bugle in this case). A mother of one of the green mt boys that were deployed last year asked if I could make 7 art quilts all the same to give to the group of mothers that she knows that also have sons serving with hers. She showed me a few pictures of the base and the area in Herrera Afghanistan, where they are stationed and wanted sort of a combo of vermont and Afghanistan. The above is what I came up with - the mountains in the distance are like the ones in Herrera and if you look close, the green mountain in front of that is camel's hump, then of course the green hills of vermont - leading down to the CO Herrera. which looks alittle weird but the base in the pictures looks like all tan cylinders with sandbags all around it. I used some stuff that you put under rugs to keep them from moving, dyed them with tea to look tanish and sewed them. The tree trunks are made from one of her sons uniforms - I cut in thin strips and then sort of twisted them to look like an olive tree trunk. The back of the quilt also is made of the leftover uniform pants that she gave me and I left a pocket intack so she can put pictures or what ever in there. The green thing hanging from the top is supposed to symbolize the green mt boys flag which is green, of course with blue and white stars in the corner. The name of his company is Alpha. 

I really had fun making this and shows you are only limited by your imagination, so the sky's the limit as far as I'm concerned. The only thing I did not enjoy was making so many of the same thing and I probablly will never do 7 of one thing again, but it was for a good cause and I did make them all a little different to keep my interest. Now on to the next project - warmth -mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ;)