Quilt Square Project... Complete!

For the last few weeks I have been working on a project for church. We are doing a quilt square swap. What is a quilt square swap you ask? Well, it is exactly like a card swap. There are 25 of us who signed up, we each make 25 of our quilt squares and on Sunday we all bring our squares to church and "swap" them. We each get 1 of each of the 25 squares (including 1 of our own). So we each end up with 25 different squares. We are each able to do whatever we want, our own color choices, our own patterns, our own designs, etc. So all 25 squares will be completely different. We then each get to make our own quilts to keep for years to come. We have to put our names on the squares so that years down the road we can look at the squares on the quilt and remember who everyone is. Fun huh?! I did this a couple of years ago and it was a blast. There were 14 of us last time. I made a simple square in green's and rose colors. I was going to do a more ambitious one but decided to procrastinate and ran out of time. So when this opportunity came around again I knew exactly what I wanted to do. The square is very simple to look at, but trust me, they took FOREVER to complete! I started working on them right after my honey went back from leave, I needed something to keep me busy. Trust me, this definately did the trick. So for the last 2 and a half weeks I have been working on......
The center of the square is cross-stitched (hence why it took so long). The first one took me 4 hours to do (just the cross-stitched part). By the final few squares I had memorized the pattern and it took me only just over an hour for each. Then came the strips on the side. I found some cute fabric at hobby lobby (thanks for helping me find it Belinda!), in navy blue with tiny stars and burgundy with tiny stars. Very Americana huh? That is what I was going for. My friend Chelsea likes these so much that she wants me to make more squares for her. I told her that I was making an extra square (so yup, 26 total) so that I could make a pillow for my mom, who's family room is done in Americana colors. Chelsea's eyes lit up immediately and asked me if I could do some pillows for her too. lol I told her I would.
I am considering making a bunch and selling them at a craft sale. hmmmm.......