"Fugarwe?" by me

Because what else do you do when you go on a cycling vacation around Lake Ontario, but try to find as man fabric stores as you can?   Then you look for the fabrics that are special or remind you of things you saw or did on the trip.

The pattern of the quilt is called "Kings Crown", so I quilted the "crown" piecing with a crown design freehand.

So, we have a piece from the Canada panel to indicate that we biked across the border a total of 4 times.  (Twice in one day just because we could while we were at Niagara Falls.  And we can now say that we have "crossed the Rainbow Bridge" on bikes!)

Beer can lids and wine labels because alcohol was an important part of the end of every day.  Clearly, we needed water fabric to represent Lake Ontario, and the falls, and the blue with bike gears because Xande and I didn't have anything like that in our stash.

The key fabric is in honor of darling brother Joe who got up one morning and unlocked the sag vehicle to load up suitcases.  Then kept the keys and started to ride.  Got a call about 2 hours in from our sag driver, Becky, wondering where the keys might be.  Sure enough!  Joe's jersey pocket!  He got extra miles that day riding back to our AirB&B, but then rode with Becky to where he had turned around.  I know that we are competitive for miles, but this is ridiculous!

Maps on the back for all the time that poor Joe had to figure out where we went from there.

And found a crown motif to quilt in the empty spaces in the blocks for Joe

Considering there are at least 2 fabrics about beer, and one for wine, there was a LOT of dirnking.  But there's also coffee represented twice. 

Yes, those are "Buffalo wings" on the fabric in the square.  Also ice cream, although gelato was the preferred snack for the afternoon.  On the last day, we rode up and over the Berkshires on our last day.  Joe's phone app shows a mild elevation gain, and about a total of 60 miles round trip.   We should have looked at Beth's app, because mine showed some serious climbing.  But since Beth can't be trusted when it comes to navigation, we went with Joe's.  FINALLY got over the border, and found the quilt shop.  Then we called Xande for a ride home.  But I had to get the fabric representative of New England, even if I can't find anything about Massachusetts on what I included in teh quilt

The computer cords are to represent "The charging station" that Xande brought.  One plug into the wall, and then about 14 different places for us to charge phones, bike computers and lights.  One of the first  to get unpacked each night.  Also, cobblestones for when we were in town and above, the pebbles are for the "stone dust" along the Eerie Canal.  Essentially really hard packed sand.  Not difficult to ride on, but you wouldn't want a steady diet of it.

I found a couple of pieces of Sesame Street prints  Since Joe brought along 3 of his many Sesame Street jerseys, those had to be included.  The green and orange....  The green started when I found a large piece of it on clearance at our first stop.  I say that's Joe's favorite color is green, he corrected me that it is "Flourescent"   So, the green and the orange are to replicate the colors in his new bike.

This is my "princess tiara"

And the 2nd half of the backing with more maps