National Quilt Day.....my contribution--"Hosanna"

I took today's opportunity of free time to finally finish this little quilt.  It measures approximately 21 and a half inches square. 

I began this project last Spring, while I was staying at my brother and sister-in-law's house.  I only had access to my brown fabric drawer and my dyed fabrics, as my other fabrics were all stored away with my quilts at another brother's house.  When I picked the project up last night, only the center was completed.  Looking through my green fabrics, I found this print for the border.......if you could see it up close, you'd see that it looks sort of like tropical fern fronds or something, so it reminded me of palm leaves.....thus, Hosanna.

They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.  A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.  The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,

 "Hosanna to the Son of David!"

"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!"

"Hosanna in the highest!"

I just made the design up out of my head, and I'm disappointed on looking at it now, to see that it's not dimensional at all.  But it speaks to me of that time in my life and says where my head was then. So, with Easter approaching quickly, I decided that I wanted it to be a finished project.

I keep wanting something to hand-quilt on, something small and portable, but this wasn't that project.  I could see in my head how I wanted to quilt it, so I started on it last night, doing the lines across the center first.   Then today I quilted the borders and the 'rocky hill'. 

I could not master 'bubble quilting', but am satisfied that I achieved the look that I wanted.  And praise the LORD, it's nice and flat !